Big Brother coming to the internet ?

"Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
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)"

Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/acta----a-patriot-act-for_b_345000.html

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html


this is not cool

 

It's a load of bs.

 

how do you know ?

 

just seems like a conspiracy theory, it'd take A LOT of power and people to put this shit into effect.

 

youtube is already doing something of the sort.
this could just be the beginning

 

Fellow Ohioan brother, the government HAS a lot of power and people.
If they can push through a healthcare bill that an average person can't even read in a day,
they can do this, and much worse.

Big Brother now officially owns our neighbors across the pond.
They're a smaller country than we are, and they're officially screwed.
Trust me... We're going to be fighting off Big Brother soon enough...

Welcome... Welcome to 1984.

 

Does seem to be a bit secretive. But I think any agreement has to be ratified by Congress so there should be a public debate - I think.

 

Anybody who was really interested in this topic would of mentioned iinet by now.