Therefore, the Government of Bolivia proposed in 1973 to add a Protocol to the abovementioned Universal Copyright Convention as revised in 1971, in order to provide a legal framework for the protection of folklore.

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That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).

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Recently it became clear that Westminster no longer had the power to add a new annex to the protocol.

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Any solution, they add, would require universal participation and that signing any protocol without such stipulations would economically disadvantage the United States.

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Similarly, Facebook and Twitter send login credentials over a secure line and then revert to an unsecure protocol. (Users of those social networks can add an "s" after "http" to force the systems to encrypt their browsing.) Social networking sites are where people increasingly conduct private conversations, whether through Facebook's Messages or Twitter's Direct Message feature.

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