brave new (virtual) world

[luke warm]

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/11/anti-co...comment-page-1/

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/35311...internet-piracy

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/[/url]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/t...i_b_343488.html

* * 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)

[barmar]

Luke, could you repost the links? Links 1, 2, and 4 don't work because of the "..." elisions.

[luke warm]

Luke, could you repost the links? Links 1, 2, and 4 don't work because of the "..." elisions.

sorry bout that, try now