G8 set to create piracy laws
NEXT WEEK'S G8 SUMMIT will be slipping through some scary developments that are aimed to stop piracy.
While most of the headline grabbing parts of the G8 conference will come from agreements on climate change and African development, a little agreement - which will see international piracy laws, border controls and cooperation from ISPs to identify pirates - is also likely to get the nod.
On the official G8 web site the agreement is mentioned as ‘protection of intellectual property rights’, but it could, potentially, completely change the way in which the law deals with pirates.
New Scientist claims that the talks will be based around the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which is an international strategy for cracking down on piracy.
The agreement calls for border measures to control international piracy, including the authority for customs authorities to halt suspected intellectual property rights-infringing goods.
Liability for copyrighted material being posted on websites will be taken away from ISPs and placed on the user instead. The big idea is that it is hoped that this will encourage ISPs in the removal of infringing material.
In addition, ISPs will be expected to hand over any personal details about suspected copyright infringers at the request of the music or movie industry.
It seems that it will be a good way for the music and film industries to get their tame politicians to give them what they want by using International Agreements for draconian measures that it cannot impose to get at home. µ
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So I will be able to start a music company and then go around and get personal details of people on the net? 

Cool... social engineering was never easier.
Its' Long time since Alexandria Started Collecting Books. Incoming ships where seached for written material & confiscated. They Made quite Do of writting, to Point of NOT having any, in effect. Resorting to Greek, Latin & Eastern Script.
India is foundation of Our Phonetic Alphabet, & 13 letters. Most additonal letters are surplus, as well as lower case, just to confuse.Numbers are of course Arabic.

Cartoons grab scenes from Movies & incorporate them into nationwide broadcasts, yet recreates scene as animation. Its Legal. 
Anything Digitalized has Lost its' Copyright by Law; that stands as Permanent & Forever. So Where'd Digital Millenium Act Come in? Its Greedy World.

Get This Story:. someone from Charles Hometown, Minneapolis, (Charles, You Didn't)Put Their Vote On Auction Few Days Ago for $10. NO Takers, yet FOOL Was Arrested For Felony. It Is Your Vote To Decide With. Or Is It?

Stories Go On Forever. Bozo Died Yesterday & Was Franchise of Capitol Records. BoZo Was Also Convicted Pervert. So Go Figure. Will Copyright or Franchise Protect US. guess NOT.

Its Mean Game Played By Mean Players, Especially If Your GrandMother(PAT PEND).
drashek .(TM)

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I've been thinking of paying a extra £15 of month to use unlimited, super fast, encrypted usenet anyway. Just one more reason for me to get my content faster. I'm sure that will solve my problem until the next evolutionary step in P2P connections comes about.
I'm all for this law if it is applied to useless porn that is clogging the net and overusing valuable resources.

Could this be? The largest cyber castration of all time?

Also: To small time sharers out there, do you realize copying movies or music require power time and money? How are you fairing on the scale between risk and savings?

No matter how bad one wants to prove a point, anger is just getting too very expensive or in extreme cases cheap, when lives are in the betting pool.

And no I'm not working for any industry!
Here we go, another reinforcement of the greed that is shoved down our throats.

Maybe if the movies/songs etc were fairly priced we might stop pirating?

I don't spend 20euros on a cd or dvd because they're not worth that much, they cost less than a euro to make, nobody likes to be ripped off.

And if I did buy cd's or dvd's, where does that money go? To pay for some actors 20m paycheque for 6 weeks work? Nope I don't agree with that. 

Does it pay for some 18 year old kid to sing a song and have Simon Cowell et al to take 50% of the profits? I won't support that in good conscience.

And for these 'artists', what do they spend our money on? Tv's in the mudflaps of their cars, 50k$ handbags, pet psychologists, gold ceilings in their houses, gold plated ak-47's, and thats before you even mention the crazy subscription based religions half of them follow, seriously !!!!

Since I first saw MTV cribs, I stopped buying anything associated with the mpaa or riaa.

Why should my money go to pay for such nonsense when I can spend it myself on cigarerettes and cheap beer.

Ludicrous!
After you bout computer and connected it to internet you will have some privacy as prisoner in jail!! And such move is justified by big businesses to be rich… Hmmm, we should get our democracy back before it is too late.
is there a site that shows what artists are independent and those that are riaa branded so consumers can boycott riaa artists and support independent artists? that would help consumers since most artists are assumed to be riaa branded and not independent.