Co-Reach in IPR in New Media Workshop: CLSR co-hosts policy meeting on ISP Liability

The Co-Reach Workshop on ISP Liability on December 7, 2010 was organised by the Co-Reach IPR in New Media at the Herbert Smith Conference Center in London. The policy-making workshop was co-hosted by Computer Law and Security Review, as part of its aim to position itself at the forefront of policy discussion drawing upon the high quality scholarly contributions to the journal from leading experts around the world.     

网络通缉——正义的讨伐还是违法的行为？

“网络通缉”并不是真正意义上的“通缉”或“通缉令”。通过对网络通缉的性质、特点及成因分析，我们发现网络通缉在对我国公民道德体系维护和监督的同时，存在的侵权和违法行为。因此，有必要结合我国关于互联网的管理规定，对网络通缉侵权行为提出一些建议措施。     

The Universal Adversary will attack: pigs,pirates, zombies,Satan and the class war

This article explores a category to have recently emerged out of the national security state: the Universal Adversary. The category appears in emergency planning documents and suggests a new way of thinking about the enemy that is becoming embedded in the logic of security and emergency. However, the radical expansiveness of the category offers new possibilities for thinking about the “universality” with which the enemy of bourgeois order has historically been considered and offers new ways of connecting this universality with a particular figure: the disgruntled worker.     

Piracy of copyright in Pakistan and its effects

This article analyses the copyright piracy in Pakistan through International Intellectual Property Alliance Reports. Copyright piracy ratio is very high in Pakistan in last fifteen years. The article discusses the piracy situation year wise and its effects on Pakistan economy. In this way, it tries to improve the implementation of intellectual property rights. In the end, the article recommends some suggestions to improve the enforcement situation in Pakistan.     

浅析索马里海盗行为的国际规制

索马里海盗行为已成为国际社会关注的影响和破坏国际海运安全的问题之一,构成了严重危害和平与安全的国际罪行,各国都建立了对海盗犯罪行为的普遍管辖权。目前,许多国家已根据联合国的有关决议和索马里过渡政府的有效同意派军舰赴索马里海域打击海盗。通过分析海盗行为的成因、危害性、打的必要性以及国际合作打击海盗中出现的问题,提出一些打击海盗行为的有益性进路和策略。     

论国际社会打击索马里海盗的国际法依据

索马里海盗的猖獗行为,对国际航运和海上航行安全构成了严重危害,是对国际和平及安全的威胁与破坏。在索马里沿海打击海盗,涉及不同的海域,各海域法律制度的特殊性决定了在不同的海域打击海盗有不同的国际法依据,涉及不同的国际公约规则。文章依据有关公约和学者学说,结合安理会的有关决议,分析和阐明了在各海域打击索马里海盗的国际法依据,也有助于中国海军依法护航,依法维护国家利益。     

Lessons in successful Somali governance

‘Somalia’ is often portrayed as the quintessential ungovernable, failed state – with pirates, terrorists and humanitarian crises as a consequence. This article tells how Somalis in Somaliland and Puntland today have realised a degree of successful governance in the Horn of Africa.     

Explaining Young People’s Involvement in Online Piracy: An Empirical Assessment Using the Offending Crime and Justice Survey in England and Wales

Abstract

The Internet has been widely acknowledged as facilitating many forms of youth offending. Existing research has identified important drivers of young people’s involvement in online crime, yet this has overwhelmingly relied on school or college samples. As such, it tells us little about those young people that have left the formal education system—a group who are more likely perpetrators of juvenile crime more generally. Focusing on young people’s involvement in online piracy offenses, our analysis draws on data from a nationally representative survey of England and Wales to better understand the dynamics of involvement in online crime across the population. We assess the potential overlaps between online and offline offending, the role of differential association and deviancy neutralization techniques in shaping offending behavior, as well as the protective effect of strong family support networks in reducing involvement in piracy. We find that illegal downloaders tend to be young, male, and have a higher number of delinquent friends. We also find that many of these offenders do not confine their offending to online spaces, with involvement in offline property offenses also high among this group.     

Successful and Unsuccessful Pirate Attacks Worldwide: A Situational Analysis

Using concepts drawn from situational crime prevention theory, this study compares successful and unsuccessful pirate attacks (n = 4,638) against ships worldwide and the situational factors that help prevent such attacks. The results show that when a ship’s crew takes proactive self-protective measures that increase the perceived effort (increasing speed, employing evasive maneuvers) and increase the perceived risk (embarking private security, having watchman present, raising alarm, increasing lighting, anti-piracy) of perpetrating an attack, unsuccessful attacks are significantly more likely after controlling for environmental influences. Despite a few common data limitations, the study contributes to the crime prevention literature by analyzing piracy from a micro level instead of a macro level. Future research should examine how the piracy “ecosystem” contributes to the problem and the costs and benefits counter-piracy activities.     

Searching for Sanctuary: Government Power and the Location of Maritime Piracy

Recent systematic work on the incidence of maritime piracy shows the importance of various political, economic, and geographic correlates at the country level. Yet these correlates tell us little about the determinants of piracy location off states’ coasts, despite the fact that piracy is well known to cluster locally. Conceptualizing pirates as strategic actors who consider the risk of detection and capture, this article argues that states’ ability to project power over distance affects pirates’ decisions on where to organize and operate. As state capacity increases, piracy will locate farther away from government power centers, whereas piracy can flourish closer to state capitals in weak states that struggle to extend control over space. Using geocoded data from the International Maritime Bureau for the 1996–2013 period, results show that increases in state capacity are associated with greater median capital--piracy distances. These findings are robust to several changes in model specification. Our results have important implications for the study of piracy and crime.