Subject: Re: Italy: PeaceLink Secretary Imprisoned
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 15:44:39 AEST


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Subject: Italy: PeaceLink Secretary Imprisoned
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** Topic: Italy: PeaceLink Secretary Imprisone **
** Written  7:27 AM  Mar  6, 1997 by newsdesk in cdp:pn.alerts **
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PeaceLink need your solidarity...
See next message.. spread it on your mailing lists!!
Best regards.

Alessandro Marescotti
Peacelink
spokesman

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 15:04:52 GMT
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From: Alessandro Marescotti <a.marescotti-AT-freeworld.it>
Subject: HELP! PEACELINK CHARGED AND CONDAMNED!

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  *** PeaceLink - Italian computer network for peace and human rights ***

                           PRESS RELEASE

   PEACELINK ASSOCIATION EXPRESS ITS SOLIDARIETY TO GIOVANNI PUGLIESE

     PEACELINK CHARGED AND CONDAMNED: THEY NEVER COMMITTED THE CRIME

WHAT'S NEW?

The court of Taranto condamned Giovanni Pugliese, secretary of 
Peacelink Association, to three months' imprisonment. He also has to 
pay 500.000 Italian Lira and the cost of the trial. In addition to it 
he must pay 3.625.000 Italian Lira and the expert report (unbilievable, 
it costed 9.530.000). The charge: Pugliese held and copied pc programs 
for commercial reasons. And who is the one who should pay for it? 
Giovanni Pugliese, a simple worker employed in Agip, someone who could 
loose his job because of the crisis of the Company in the area of 
Taranto.

THE EXPERT REPORT
The result of the report made by the expert (we have many douts about 
his expertise) on the pc that Giovanni Pugliese had at home was the 
following: he had a program (Word) but he didn't have the license for 
using it. The program was part of a BBS (a data bank) used by Pugliese 
who couldn't spread it in the network.

The Italian law makes a distinction between the duplication of a 
program for personal use and the duplication of a program for 
commercial use. This a story characterised by a political meaning given 
to an expert report.

There is no evidence of any "crime" committed by Pugliese. There is 
nothing proving that he either transmitted copies of the above 
indicated program through his modem or he made copies of it for 
commercial reasons. Believe it or not Giovanni Pugliese didn't have the 
opportunity to defend himself in court because he was never called by 
the judge!!! Giovanni Pugliese as well as his lawyer got to know about 
the sentence 10 days after it was passed. They didn't know anything 
about it!!!

EVERYTHING STARTED ON JUNE 3, 1994

when the data bank of Peacelink was seized by the Guardia di Finanza 
(the Italian Custom). Pugliese never got to know who and how this 
nightmare started.

Who is Giovanni Pugliese? Everybody has Giovanni in high esteem, he is 
a generous and unselfish person, who worked for free in Peacelink. He 
created one of the bigger telematic network existing in Italy: 
PeaceLink. Someone is trying to shut the mouth of Pugliese as well as 
Peacelink.The main goal was to stop Peacelink.

THE GUARDIA DI FINANZA (CUSTOM) IN TARANTO
The Guardia di Finanza di Taranto was unable to make a connection via 
modem to the BBS of Giovanni Pugliese. They believed Giovanni Pugliese 
charged 50.000 to 200.000 for the connection used to commercialize - 
illegally - a certain number of programs. But everybody knows that the 
connections were made for free. The Guardia di Finanza couldn't 
discovery because they didn't have a modem.

Pugliese live in a small rental house and in his bank account there 
isn't the big amount of money he should have meade "selling" 
unauthorized copies of the Word. viva in una piccola

Where did the Guardia di Finanza collected the information regarding 
Pugliese? Nobody knows.

THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE SECRET SERVICES

PeaceLink has been under control since a long time. Our activity was 
considered as a "danger" and the Italian intelligence service had to 
control us! What a shame, they could have been used to help protecting 
the judges Falcone and Borsellino killed by the "mafia". PeaceLink, 
anyhow, didn't fall down after the confiscation of its data bank. The 
result was much stronger: we used our free voice to help people such 
Gianmarco Coniglio (who was terribly sick) and the street children of 
Koinonia in Nairobi (Kenya).

WHAT WAS THE "DANGEROUS" ACTION OF PEACELINK?

The recent history of our activity has been published in two books:
- Telematica per la pace (ed.Apogeo)
- Oltre Internet (ed.EMI)

And we, the authors, donated all the royalties to the street children 
of Nairobi. The one who are trying to hit PeaceLink are attacking the 
Italian Freedom of expression through the net. Whoever feels like 
sending a message of support to us, to face this shameful sentence of 
the Italian Court, can write to:

      Giovanni Pugliese:    g.pugliese-AT-freeworld.it

But if there is any one who knew that Giovanni Pugliese was selling 
unauthorised copies of programs through the data bank of PeaceLink .... 
well, we invite you to tell it to the Guardia di Finanza (the custom) 
of Taranto.

                         Alessandro Marescotti

                 spokesman of the Association "PeaceLink"

Alessandro Marescotti c/o PeaceLink, c.p. 2009, 74100 Taranto (Italy)
E-mail Internet: a.marescotti-AT-freeworld.it    a.marescotti-AT-peacelink.it
E-mail Fidonet:  2:335/703.20    Web: http://www.freeworld.it/peacelink
PeaceLink aiuta... aiuta PeaceLink:   c.c.p. 13403746 intestato ad
Associazione PeaceLink, via Galuppi 15, 74010 Statte (TA).
La storia di PeaceLink e' nei libri: "Telematica per la pace" (ed.Apogeo,
Milano) e "Oltre Internet" (ed.EMI, Bologna); per entrambi i diritti
d'autore sono interamente devoluti ai bambini di strada di Koinonia
(Nairobi, Kenya).

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