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World going barmy over copyright enforcement
IT IS NOT CLEAR how accurate it is yet but someone has posted a copy of what appears to be the crucial enforcement section of the secret copyright treaty that the publishing cartels want the world to accept.
It reads like the real thing and if it is, then it is the first time it has been available to the great unwashed.
As you would expect from a treaty dictated by the entertainment industries, it forces technology companies to take responsibility for copyright infringement whenever they are told about it.
So in other words, if Microsoft knows its software is used by most of the world's so-called 'pirates' it can be held accountable for the crime of selling them software. Xerox can also be sued if students use its hardware to photocopy textbooks.
Trademark infringement will also be covered under the treaty. Since what constitutes a legitimate use of a trademark is often only decided in the courts after years of arguing this will mean technology providers will have to take down content and worry later.
So if Intel gets the notion in its head to sue people for the use of the letter 'I' again, it will be easier for it just to threaten lawsuits against ISPs and get the businesses shut down without needing to go to court.
Also if you take a photograph and stick it on your website you might want to be careful which shop signs are in the background.
It will also be illegal under the treaty to break any digital restrictions management (DRM) that a content provider places on its products. This has been around for years but it has not stopped anyone.
There is also the 'three-strikes' requirement that anyone suspected of copyright infringement be disconnected from the Internet by their ISP, along with their families and anyone else who shares their connection.
According to citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net. the draft would constitute caving in to the entertainment corporations' demands and profoundly alter the structure of the Internet.
"This document shows that ACTA would impose regulations tailored by US entertainment industries to the Internet," said Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson of La Quadrature du Net.
"The civil and criminal sanctions could completely change the balance struck by current European law on Internet operators. European negotiators must oppose this circumvention of democratic processes aiming at putting [the] Internet under total surveillance by private actors."
So rather than come up with any interesting way of dealing with copyright infringement, the world's governments are simply bowing to the content industries' demands, so that the laws that have not worked so far are simply going to be made more draconian and spread across the entire globe. µ
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Let's try to rethink the system. Give copyright back to the authors. Let them manage their own rights. It's possible: http://www.villamusicrights.com
The first rule of politics is make your opponents think that you want something insane and outrageous.
Next step, go into negotiations and grudgingly come up with a compromise which isn't as extreme as the 'leaked' demands.
The end result is actually what you wanted in the first place - which, if you had leaked, would still have been seen as insane and outrageous - and would never have been agreed!
At the end of all this, the copyright owners are going to be more powerful than they are at the moment - is that what you want or not?
SHUT YOUR WALLETS THEN YOU HAVE ALL THE POWER!
totaly agree and will do exactly this!
And they will see... when we will go out play football and will not need to buy the game... console... or single piece of hardware... we will make them pay to play with us hahaha
If it means Intel will sue Apple for using the letter 'i', then I'm all for it!
Sony makes DVD burners. Sony owns rights to music and movies. Does this mean that they will have to sue themselves since they sell the equipment that pirates use to copy their movies...or does it mean that they will be giving up their interest in one of these industries?
that we can actually sue the Mp double A's for putting such a weak and crappy DRM that they incite pirating ?!
I cannot believe that this nonsense will stand. Okay, it probably will for some time, but surely as time goes on and civil servants (hey, remember the MEANING of the notion ?) change, there will certainly be some to recognize this for what it is and strike it down ?
Surely ?
Hopefully ?
Please ?
I've got some geese and some trees!
I just hope these tossers don't open my letters to make sure I haven't borrowed any choice phrases!
Boycott, strike, civil disobdience.
Take your pic, as consumers you have the right to not purchase any product. I've said this aplenty. Shut your wallets. That is the only thing that companies understand. Don't let the marketing people control your purchasing habits. How many times have you been burned by the hype of marketing. Form groups, start a movement, use the internet for your advantage, the companies are and their laughing at you all the way to the bank.
Remember they are using your hard earned money to hire outside agencys to go after you. SHUT YOUR WALLETS THEN YOU HAVE ALL THE POWER.
how the technology/hardware sector, which is worth a hundred times what the IP sector is -are just allowing themselves to be steamrolled.
by not going far enough:
First, the world is not going crazy, this is a focused attack by moneyed interests on the diffuse -- and currently existing -- rights of everyone else.
Second, governments are not "bowing" to those moneyed interests, but eagerly helping implement suppression of free speech and more police state controls.
This is very stupid, if that’s what they want to do. Then I guess gun manufactures should be held accountable for murder. Cigarette companies should be held responsible for lung cancer. Car manufactures should be held responsible for drunk drivers… Think about it there is NO logic in all of this, good luck with that copyright treaty. If people really appreciate your sh!t people WILL pay for your genuine junk.
If only someone could show that publishers had used their DRM tech without permission, and sue them for $20,000 per copy.