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Software Piracy in Pakistan – Building a case for ICT Software Freedom

April 28, 2006 · 15 Comments

 

At this point in time amidst the harsh implications that Pakistani citizens will shortly be facing after 20th May 2006 when the Anti-Software piracy crackdown is enforced by Business Software Alliance BSA (Middleeast) in cooperation with the Intellectual Property Organization and Federal Investigation Authorities of Pakistan, this article is an effort to mobilize regional and international community support through media and the FOSS advocates for FOSSFP so that FOSSFP may continue to massively educate and protect the citizens of Pakistan from

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Categories: Access to ICTs · Censorship · Civil Society Participation · FOSS · FOSSFP · FSF · Freedom of Expression · Human Rights · ICT Policy · ICT for Development · Intellectual Property · Internet Governance · Laws & Regulation · National ICT Strategies · Software · Software Piracy