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| Governments Prepare Secret, Automatic Internet Copyright Control Agreement |
| 2010-01-12 |
| Among other things, ACTA creates international guidelines that mean consumers lose internet access if they are believed to be digital copyright scofflaws. Internet service providers could lose “safe harbor' protection for failing to police their customers' digital content for copyright infringement violations. Such a move would heap copyright liability onto the ISP, and fundamentally alter U.S. copyright law. The questions came weeks after leaked documents from the European Union suggested the United States was taking those positions on the accord's draft internet section. According to leaked documents on WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs to terminate repeat copyright scofflaws, criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and even interfere with the legitimate sale of brand-name pharmaceutical products. The details of the latest ACTA language that will be negotiated in secret in South Korea January 25th. The government initially declined to divulge who saw the proposed treaty, saying it would undermine the national security of the United States. The agreement does not require congressional approval. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #7 They Internet scares them as much as right wing talk radio, maybe ever more, because it gives the people a voice. They're looking for a way to control it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-12 12:31 |
| #6 How about governments that routinely ignore or violate copyrights? Do they lose their internet access? Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, China. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-01-12 11:43 |
| #5 Trouble is that Day one was in Hoover Presidency. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-01-12 08:57 |
| #4 Pebbles I hope (and trust) that was meant to be sarcastic. We've known that they are trying to destroy the economy since day 1. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-01-12 07:36 |
| #3 Even more Rent-Seeking? Are they trying to destroy the economy? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-01-12 06:08 |
| #2 Bambi paying off his Hollywood cronies at the expense of business & in a way that invades the privacy of and heaps mountains of costs on tens of millions of consumers? Meh, nothing to see here ... move along. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-01-12 01:20 |
| #1 The governments can get fucked... this is facist. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-12 00:30 |