MERGED: All about Anti-Cybercrime Law, related issues and developments

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Unsa may ikasulti sa atong mga senador na halos tanang government website gipang hack ( defaced) man.

do they really care? nothing new since 2000-ish.

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Unsa may ikasulti sa atong mga senador na halos tanang government website gipang hack ( defaced) man.

They wanted online libel excluded from the bill. There are proponents in the senate who also see this part going out of hand especially when the penalty for online libel results to 12 years jail-time while print libel goes only by 4 years.

Check this article.
Philippine websites hacked over cybercrime law | Bangkok Post: tech

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Senators move to change cybercrime law

MANILA, Philippines – Two senators on Thursday, September 27, moved a step closer to changing the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona III filed a petition before the Supreme Court that seeks to void questionable provisions in the law that he said infringe on the constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech and expression.

Guingona opposed the passage of the bill in the Senate but was outvoted. He said the recently-passed law contains confusing and vague provisions that suppress the citizens’ right to freedom of speech and expression. (Read details of his opposition to the law here.)

On the other hand, Sen Francis Escudero, acknowledging that he himself did not notice the online libel provision in the Act, said he will file a law amending it.

Read more here:

Senators move to change cybercrime law

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election time. pakita jud maayo.

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nagpapogi ra na sila run kay election season na pud

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MANILA, Philippines — Are you fond of downloading and sharing music and movie content online? With the newly enacted Cybercrime Prevention Act, this popular online activity may soon be put to an end, according to IT law experts present during a virtual roundtable on Thursday.Lawyer Francis Acero said that when interfaced with the Intellectual Property Code, the new law may actually be far worse than the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) proposed in the US Congress late last year.
“What SOPA and PIPA aimed to do, the Cybercrime Law has done,” Acero said, referring to the objective of the two bills to curb the rampant sharing and downloading of movie and music content online, as lobbied by firms in Hollywood.
Under Section 6 of the law, all crimes “defined and penalized by the Revised Penal Code, as amended, and special laws” can be punishable under the Act if they are committed with, using, and through a computer system.
Among the country’s special laws, the Intellectual Property Code penalizes, among others, illegal distribution and consumption of copyrighted content.
University of the Philippines College of Law Professor Atty. JJ Disini, meanwhile, said that because of Section 6, the law essentially made all crimes a form of cybercrime when committed through a computer or Internet system.
Other provisions in the law, Disini said, are actually ingredients to a perfect recipe for law-enforcement agencies to crack down and monitor illegal downloading and sharing of copyrighted content over the Internet.
Section 12 of the law, for instance, allows the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation to collect real-time traffic data on individuals suspected of committing cybercrime offenses.
Section 19, meanwhile, also known as the “takedown clause” and has been likened to the “Great Firewall of China,” gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) sweeping powers to issue a block or restrict order against websites and systems violating the law.
“Pirate Bay, for example, can be blocked. All you have to do is to file a complaint with the DOJ and all of this could be gone,” Disini explained. Pirate Bay is a popular websites that hosts BitTorrent files containing movie, music, and other content.
There is no stopping media companies and content producers, therefore, from lodging copyright infringement complaints before the DOJ to have illegally-sourced material taken down from the Web.
But do law-enforcement agencies have the capability to track down those who download illegally through BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks? Disini thinks so, since the members of the police and the NBI have been receiving training on cybercrime for many years now.
“In fact, in the Hayden Kho *** video case, they were able to trace the person who first uploaded the video,” he said. “So yes, they have some capabilities.”
The possible effects of the Cybercrime Law on online file-sharing and downloading is just one of the least discussed repercussions of the new law, which both Acero and Disini said should further be clarified in the law’s implementing rules and regulations (IRR).
According to an earlier report, the Philippines ranks 10th in the world in terms of the amount of music content downloaded through the BitTorrent network.
The Cybercrime Prevention Act technically takes effect on October 3, or after 15 days it was published in the papers and on the Official Gazette on September 18. The President signed the law on September 12.
Even without an IRR, Disini said parties can already file suits against cybercrime offenses and the DOJ would not have a choice but to act on it.
The Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) is already looking for private sector and academe members that will form the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), a body tasked to draft the IRR of the law.
The DOJ has already set an initial meeting with stakeholders to draft the IRR on October 9.

Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/...d-file-sharing

Effective kaha ni?I mean unsaon nila pag track down?ask nila ISP to put us Web Filter?? So it means wala na ta'y Privacy ani?patay!! Watas ang mga Movies!hahaha!

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Aguy atong mga dl nga movies ,wa na ta ni, ang privacy pud nato intawn. Pwede na diay ta itrace ani kung nag suspetsa palang sila. Abusaran unya ni sa naay mga gahum.

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Hahahahahahahaha ... you guys voted those politicians . Face the music !

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Ambrooot lang