Posted on 11/04/2009 9:35:36 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
* That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)
This Chicago gang of Marxists think they have every angle figured out to successfully impose tyranny.
About three strikes, I’ve been wondering if it would apply to companies. Sony has been caught repeatedly electronically distributing the songs of artists it no longer has rights to. Can we pull the plug on Sony’s Internet connection?
Of course not, this only applies to us little people.
Enjoy the internet while you can. Won’t be long. :(
LOL. This will only affect the law-abiding. At the end of the day, porn sites and spammers will still fill up your emailbox and the Chinese will be selling bootleg copies of every book and movie produced—ever in history.
http://nachumlist.com/
Bad link?
That’s like Alamo Girl’s work during the Clinton Era.
Try this one
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-
or this one third article down
I don’t know if they actually believe they can tell us what to do with our copyrighted stuff, but it appears the height of arrogance to propose that laws made on the INternational level have to apply to people that live in a republic with states reserving the right to secede, it’ll come down to more junk like this, where they try to force everyone in the world to bend to their will.
As Rockefeller once said “Competition is a sin.” and obviously the government that wants to demand obediance can’t have people “gossiping” about how flaccid it appears and how much dissembling goes on!
And they want to punish you for that ability.
bump
I have come to the conclusion that intellectual property law is so corrupt that ‘piracy’ is almost a justifiable act of civil disobedience. It anything like the proposed treaty comes into force, ‘piracy’ *will* be justifiable civil disobedience.
I see. Or rather do not. Using the link “...three-strikes-and-” I get a blank page. Going to the EFF site I do see the article from the link on that page, and that link is just what you have. Weird.
The program is going according to what the copyright cartel wants regardless of who is in office. I doubt Obama’s presence changed it at all.
I don’t understand it I click it over and over again. Try clicking on it from this search. It comes up in here...
IMHO...the entire goal of the Oligarchy is to place us all under these chains and fetters...to keep us from tossing them out on their bums!!
How does THIS get stopped?
It means literally making a NEW internet..... Thats way beyond my pay grade.
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