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CrunchGear: Secret copyright treaty is the most annoying thing you’ll read all year
TorrentFreak: Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates
Gizmodo: Secret Copyright Treaty Details Leak: ISPs Worldwide to Become Copyright Cops? [Copyright]
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@Swipe Seen this? http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html 4 hours ago |
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RT @SpitWash: Secret Copyright Treaty leaks. This is VERY bad. This needs to be ReTweeted! http://bit.ly/q0guK 3 days ago |
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VERY bad indeed RT @SpitWash: Secret Copyright Treaty leaks. This is VERY bad. This needs to be ReTweeted! http://bit.ly/q0guK 3 days ago |
Secret copyright treaty is the most annoying thing you’ll read all year
CrunchGear —
... Agreement, that’s in the process of being negotiated in Seoul. Everything’s very hush-hush, of course, and you don’t hear a damn thing about it on TV, no. No, that’s filled with crackpots on the left and right claiming that health care will fix everyone’s problems automatically or destroy the country as soon as it’s signed into law. As if things this complicated could be debated in 30-second segments.
Anyhow, the bullet points of the treaty, by way of Boing Boing:
• That ISPs have to proactively police ...
Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates
TorrentFreak —
... As happened previously, parts of the document have leaked out to the public and they reveal that the agreement’s scope is even more far-reaching than previously expected. The Internet chapter of ACTA has very little to do with counterfeiting, but adopts many of the same policies that anti-piracy lobbyists have been calling for. ...
Secret Copyright Treaty Details Leak: ISPs Worldwide to Become Copyright Cops? [Copyright]
Gizmodo —
... must allow content owners such as record companies and Hollywood studios to sue ISPs for failing to stop their subscribers from illegally sharing copyright-protected material such as music and movies. 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 PC World via BoingBoing]
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TechBlog —
... - They've decided they can't afford to lose the traffic that would come if content required payment. • Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. - Among other things, it requires Internet providers to proactively police copyright. • ...
Draft of secret copyright treaty should give you chills
GMSV —
As the latest round of talks on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement go on in secret (because of unspecified national security reasons), some information on the U.S.-written draft of the Internet chapter has begun to leak out, and, as feared, the heavy hand of the entertainment industry is readily apparent and the implications for Internet service providers, consumers and innovation in general are grim . Being rendered near speechless, I’ll let others summarize: * ...
“Bad. Very Bad.”
The Agitator —
... Cory Doctorow summarizes leaked portions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international copyright treaty that the last two U.S. administrations have ridiculously classified from public view as ...
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Jarrett House North —
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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. – Boing Boing
Someone remind me why letting this be negotiated in secret is ...
The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide
Ars Technica —
That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet provisions" in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn't take long for the outrage to emerge.
For instance, the popular blog Boing Boing (we love you, Cory!) announced that, under the proposed ACTA provisions being drafted by the US, "ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like ...
Copyright Protection Needs International Coordination
Internet Evolution: —
... " and mandates a fair and impartial legal review of any decision to cut off service. This contrasts with the leaked terms of a copyright treaty here in the U.S. called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which support a right of the ISP to shut off service without specific legal review. The rumor is that this treaty is being pushed on U.S. trade partners. Theres a lot of shallow thinking on both sides of this issue, and it creates glaring inconsistencies in the treatment of Internet access and Internet piracy, compared with the physical equivalents. Should we ...
