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Blogger Blocked or weak ISP ?

From the all reports from blogs like Fonzation & Zaydon Kems has blocked Blogger Site from view

Now Kems is famous for Blocking Sites when anyone demand it , i’m not pointing fingers but we remmber When aljasim site was blocked by Kems without any Court order or Even a writ en order from anyone ( which could be challenged )

Now any old Internet User in Kuwait would remember Kems as hell , As the one company which Ruined the Internet Fun for users
Dail-up which took 2-3 hours to connect and only stayed for 2 hours connected ( provided you were active on it ) and was slow and you had to pay 65 kd ( 45 if you were a student ) per month for that lousy service

We need Some kind of Law for Internet in Kuwait , you can’t just add a Filter Software and block as you like , you can’t block sites because some guy from State security Called and told you so , there should be written order by a committee to block site and you can challenge them on that verdict , not just block without any idea why or merit

Speaking of Kems i just checked the site
It has couple of problems
1- Its a comapny that offer serivce in kuwait , which the main spoken languge is arabic yet the site has no arabic section
2- The Site has no information about the company , who own it ..etc checking the other ISP sites in Kuwait Qualitynet Has a whole section about who own it
same thing with Fasttelco not to mention United Networks

Our Rights shouldn’t be thrown out !

Our Fablous Government is throwing yet more of our Rights away

I don’t know why our government is always Eager to sign anything that they are presented with , not sure there is much thinking going on there

Now According to the [BBC]

The most disturbing illustration of this double standard is the IIPA’s criticism of compulsory copyright licensing requirements.

Countries around the world, particularly those in the developing world (including Indonesia, the Philippines, Lebanon, Kuwait, Nigeria, and Vietnam) all face demands to eliminate compulsory licensing schemes in the publishing and broadcasting fields.

Kuwait is going to give up compulsory copyright license
What is That you ask ?
it is an exception to copyright law that is usually philosophically justified as an attempt by the government to correct a market failure.
Some compulsory licenses protect those who wish to use a work for educational or non-commercial purposes.

Why there is no Student price for Software like Windows ?

Read more on Compulsory license [wikipedia]