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Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
eff.org - 11/4/2009
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
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Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This week’s closed negotiations will focus on “enforcement in the digital environment.” Negotiators will be discussing the Internet provisions drafted by the US government. ...

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Talks Resume
Tech Daily Dose — ... issued a press release expressing alarm and the Electronic Frontier Foundation said the leaks "confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations." ...

Breakfast briefing: MySpace tightens up on scammers
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... and the dissolution of "safe harbour" or "mere conduit" rules for internet service providers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more detail. ...

Secret Copyright Treaty Details Leak: ISPs Worldwide to Become Copyright Cops? [Copyright]
Gizmodo — ... By the way, two major sources of counterfeiting—Russia and China—aren't in the talks. If you want to get your head further around the issue, these sites do a great job of breaking it all down: [Electronic Frontier Foundation and ...

Draft of secret copyright treaty should give you chills
GMSV — ... the E.U. and U.S. In many cases, ACTA would be in conflict with existing laws in the member nations, or would effectively create laws for which there is no existing equivalent. Now I’m all for the protection of intellectual property, but there’s something quite wrong about an international trade agreement written in secret under the guise of dealing with ‘anti-counterfeiting’ that is really just a massive Trojan horse in a push for transnational regulation of the Internet.” * Gwen Hinze at the Electronic Frontier Foundation : “The Internet provisions have nothing to do with ...

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