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Secret copyright treaty leaks

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:39 pm
by Sabre
Outline
Boinb Boinb article.
* 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)

As they sad, bad, very bad....

Re: Secret copyright treaty leaks

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:00 pm
by complacent
i'm askeered of the future of internets.

piconets are going to be all the damn rage for those on the low.

Re: Secret copyright treaty leaks

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:23 pm
by ElZorro
complacent wrote:piconets are going to be all the damn rage for those on the low.
Private WiMAX networks with strong encryption...

Re: Secret copyright treaty leaks

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:09 pm
by complacent
oddly enough, a good wired article about the issue.

:shock:

Re: Secret copyright treaty leaks

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:10 pm
by Mr Kleen
:notcool: