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Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:27 pm
by Squirt
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://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/se ... t-tre.htmlHoly shit Obama, get your flame shields up, your about to have a whole bunch of internets rammed up your ass.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:40 pm
by poehalcho
If this happens, you just know that he won't live long...
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:41 pm
by woutR
Boingboing.net?
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:43 pm
by TheDrop
woutR wrote:Boingboing.net?
exactly
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:35 pm
by Psychedeelic
ive known all about this for so long, but I really hoped it wouldn't become true...
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:43 pm
by XxDeeDeeDeexX
Probably just trying to get Internet people who are un-informed of politics to hate Obama. I'm sure the story was made by some Mc Cain tard.
* * 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.
Right now Copyright infringement is punishable by jail time. Most cases just the infringed material is removed, and that user may be blocked from the upload site. If something like what I quoted happens, shit would hit the fan, its completely unrealistic.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:02 pm
by heroo
woutR wrote:Boingboing.net?
lol was thinking the same.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:03 pm
by XemnasXD
UnbeatableDevil wrote:woutR wrote:Boingboing.net?
exactly
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:14 pm
by Toasty
"Secret Internet Treaty"
Must be real.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:20 pm
by Squirt
Knew it was to good to be true :3.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:28 pm
by cpinney
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:48 am
by inky
I highly doubt this is going to happen. I can only imagine the wave of "Obama is a dumb n*****" spam messages if it does.
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:57 am
by Blurred
Toasty wrote:"Secret Internet Treaty"
Must be real.
SHHH it's a secret!
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:06 am
by antics
cpinney wrote:
thats no facepalm
he is just sleepy and is yawning
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:08 am
by Ganja
It's a mouth palm.
But then again....his palm if on his face
Re: Secret Internet Treaty
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:41 am
by chesticles
You failed to mention this "leaked" material is of the DRAFT
as in NOT OFFICIAL