[kictanet] Music Copyright Owners sue ISPs for allowing Kenyans to download content illegally

Mark Kipyegon mkipyegon at outlook.com
Thu Jan 29 15:30:32 EAT 2015


How are music pirates being targeted by this petition?

As a consumer of content what I see is a petition to censor the open
nature of the Internet by blocking websites.


On 29/01/2015 15:25, Bernard Kioko via kictanet wrote:
> Hehehe....  Mpesa was to say anything is possible. If u don't pirate music
> this petition won't affect you surely? N by that i mean anyone. If a law is
> passed that affects thieves and you are not one... Shouldn't you let the
> law be...
> On Jan 29, 2015 3:21 PM, "cdohnio via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
>> Benard,
>> Did you just used Mpesa as an example that there may be a way to block
>> websites?:D
>>
>> There are several ways, the problem is do you want to turn us into China
>> and have our own great firewall and violate our rights up and down the
>> spectrum? How do we trust anyone not to use such a system to block free
>> speech or even their competition?
>>
>>




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