Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais

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to act legally against a large number of interagents, which demands the capacity of
civilly identifying them, as we can notice in the description below, from another
section of the IIPA report, on page 149, about Brazil:
“Data withholding: The Business Software Alliance points out that there is no
specific legislation setting forth a minimum period of time for the providers
to keep records of the transactions carried out in the Internet. Currently, the
providers keep the data for a short period, which makes it difficult to follow and
investigate piracy in the P2P networks (ideally, such data should be kept for,
at least, from 6 months to 1 year). In a recent legal litigation brought by a national
group of the phonographic industry (ABPD) against a group of uploaders
from São Paulo, the Court authorized the obtainment of evidence. However, the
provider was incapable of supplying the data due to the delay of the Court in
reaching such decision. The access provider simply “lost” the information while
the legal sentence was expected. This specific deficiency can certainly frustrate
the endeavors developed by the phonographic industry in Brazil to challenge
the illegal mass music files exchange that occurs through the P2P networks. The
Conselho Nacional Contra a Pirataria [National Council Against Piracy] (SIC)
shall dedicate resources to analyze the applicable laws in Brazil, in order to supply
clear recommendations for a solution of these cases.”
Due to arguments completely different from those of the copyright industry, the
legal and Police devices and institutions have the need of civil identification of the
Internauts as an essential condition to fight the pedophilia networks and personal
threats and attacks, the so-called cyberbullying.
“Few things became as global as the threats to children in the Internet. According
to data from the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the
diffusion and the sale of child pornography represent half of the crimes committed
through the worldwide computers web, even more than digital piracy and
financial frauds. The relative anonymity in the web facilitates the intromission
in the lives of others by pedophiles, counterfeiters and swindlers. According to
the Interpol, this crime grows at a rate of 10% per year, driven by the sophistication
of the suppliers of this type of material and the near invisibility of its
consumers” (KÖNIG, 2009).
In the first years of the 21st century, there has been a great pressure for reducing
or eliminating the possibilities of anonymous communication in the Internet,
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