New ACTA leak confirms grave threat to Internet freedom

Story: http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secr...

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), 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.

http://ByteStyle.tv/node/200 - The internet is under attack by the US Government, working on behalf of corporate interests in the entertainment and content industries.

http://rt.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-26/A_not-so-private_PC.html#

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Comment by DVW on January 1, 2010 at 4:52am: HOly shyte...

Comment by ☠Realize Lies☠ on December 4, 2009 at 5:13pm: LOL, yeah Mitsos... nobody's going to fukin DIE from internet censorship/control.... they're just going to get extremely pissed and start taking the necessary action to counter this attack.... i'd like to hope so at least :/

Comment by Mitsos on December 4, 2009 at 4:54pm: It looks more and more like 66. Not 66 in the USA but in my country. One year before the military junta took over.
8000 people were killed within the first 2 months alone and 2000 later. About 30.000 got tortured. No one but a handful of people had to pay for this many years later.
And that with a population of 8 million people back then.
We sheeple are stupid because it's 99 of us versus only one of them but people come to believe that whats good for the top 1% it's good for them.
Actually it's only 0,01% of the population that has the power over the country.