Surveilling the internet in Brazil?

The Brazilian Senator, Eduardo Azeredo, has submitted to the chamber a bill that puts serious restrictions to internet freedom in Brazil. This bill (supposedly created to stop cybercrimes) intends to impose identity registrations associated to IP numbers and ISPs. Basically, this will oblige ISPs to inform the identity of all associated internet users (through a ever increasing database of registered users).
Among other restrictions, this will challenge the use of P2P and free access to public wireless networks all over the country. In the words of another blogger (void life): "They want to prohibit the collaborative networks and virtually prevent the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge through the Internet".
Some Brazilian scholars and activists are heading a protest and an online petition to stop this and other similar bills to be voted by the Congress and the Senate. I will leave a link to the petition on the main page of this blog.

The petition can be signed here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/veto2008/petition.html

More on this...

(in English):
http://www.nardol.org/2008/7/18/the-new-brazilian-internet-surveillance

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/11/holding-the-line-for-internet-freedoms-in-brazilian-cyberspace/

(in Portuguese):
http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/por-que-o-projeto-sobre-crimes-na.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/projeto-de-lei-de-crimes-na-internet-um.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/leia-o-absurdo-artigo-do-senador.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/lei-de-crimes-na-internet-perguntas.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/08/senador-azeredo-no-responde-pergunta.html