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Old 09-22-2010, 11:23 AM  
DamianJ
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
If you were in the porn business and had your content being stolen you would feel much, much differently.
No I wouldn't. I assure you. No different at all.

I find it staggering that pornographers want the GOVERNMENT to force all ISPs to censor and block access to sites they deem are inappropriate. I find it staggering that people would try and adopt a law where you would have your internet access removed if you are simply accused of committing a crime.

I kinda am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you don't actually know what the bill has in it, and just assumed it was to help you stop people making money from pirated content. Oh no.

Here's something from boing boing.

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)

http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/sec...right-tre.html

Further reading at
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...ta-is-here.ars

Or if you want to just watch a video explaining why CNET call it "the super evil ACTA agreement" :
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-10466200-10.html

Piracy is bad Robbie, everyone knows that, but ACTA is not the solution. You're already beating the fuckers with what you are already doing. You should be being flown over 1st class to amsterdam to give the keynote and teaching people how you have stopped your content being stolen.
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