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Gerco · 11-04-2009, 05:52 PM

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.

GREAT! time to answer to the piper. No more fucking tubes/bbs etc hiding behind the user upload loophole.

* 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.

Sounds good to me. Time to put a little teeth behind it and maybe little johnny will get his ass taken out by his folks. If your doing illegal things on the net you should be shutdown.

* 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.

Still, sounds good to me... I'm in US and already have to live by these rules so no change there...

* 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)

Again...if the copyright owner wants to give the fucking disabled access he would... leave his shit alone Hence the name Digital RIGHTS managment.

I see nothing here I disagree with at all, and thing that this is LONG overdue.

what's that saying... adapt or die..... LOL!

11-04-2009, 05:52 PM
Gerco Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,052	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. GREAT! time to answer to the piper. No more fucking tubes/bbs etc hiding behind the user upload loophole. * 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. Sounds good to me. Time to put a little teeth behind it and maybe little johnny will get his ass taken out by his folks. If your doing illegal things on the net you should be shutdown. * 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. Still, sounds good to me... I'm in US and already have to live by these rules so no change there... * 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) Again...if the copyright owner wants to give the fucking disabled access he would... leave his shit alone Hence the name Digital RIGHTS managment. I see nothing here I disagree with at all, and thing that this is LONG overdue. what's that saying... adapt or die..... LOL! __________________ Http://www.extremehole.com ** CLOSED ** 400 HOURS of exclusive custom extreme content, already on external HD in Raw DV ready to encode. over 150,000 exclusive images and more.