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Negotiated in secret by 39 countries, ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. Officially The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement. ACTA would establish a new international legal framework that countries can join on a voluntary basis and would create its own governing body outside existing international institutions. Negotiating countries have described it as a response "to the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works. The scope of ACTA includes counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet."
A signing ceremony was held on 1 October 2011 in Tokyo, with the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signing the treaty. The European Union, Mexico, and Switzerland did not sign the treaty, but "attended the ceremony and confirmed their continuing strong support for and preparations to sign the Agreement as soon as practicable." Article 39 of ACTA specifies that the agreement is open for signature until 31 March 2013.
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BarsepsI wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if a guy called Andrew Crossley was involved here. This video needs exposure....... *Doublepromote
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charliemsays...Censorship on the internet is a furfie, that wont ever happen...good luck to them I say trying to classify and censor all 20 billion unique pages as of this year alone.
marinarathey don't have to censor millions of pages. they just have to censor google search results
Lethinsays...if i understand this right: i get like 50 people in other countries to agree with me on something we can make it a law? i think all the occupy wall-streeters need together and make some actual changes.
also, if your worried about this, realize that ISP companies will shoot this down, they loose the most. it just makes the wrong people responsible and have to pay for someone else's crimes. IP addresses and MAC addresses can be changed so fast, and proving anything in a digital age is so hard. But the 1% dont care about that anyways...
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to anyone who runs a business (i do and have learned stuff the hard way): if you don't want your expensive products to be copied cheaply, sold at 20% the cost your selling it for and loose mad profits, make the product in question more available to the public, no one wants to pay for shitty music or movies anymore. if the public likes something, they'll support it! so make worth while products and quit acting like your the victims.
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Porksandwichsays...I don't like the way he pronounces patents.
Beyond that, we in the US already have the majority of this on us already. I think we lack the ISP policing to such a degree that other nations might. But patented seeds? Generic drugs being denied to some degree? We got that in the US. Generic drugs aren't quite as screwed up as patented seeds and how the big corporations rape people in courts over them, but non-generic drug (and maybe some generics) pricing in the US is outrageous in comparison to other countries.
MilkmanDansays...>> ^marinara:
they don't have to censor millions of pages. they just have to censor google search results
I'm sure that if the MPAA / RIAA types had free rein (even more than now, I mean) they would do exactly that. But what would actually result if that were actually to happen? OK, Google might wither and die, or at least the search portion of Google.
And then? In no time at all, the next Google would appear. PirateBay, isoHunt, RapidShare, whatever. Stop one, everybody moves to the next. Eliminating any or all of those would have exactly the same long-term reduction in piracy as Napster's demise did -- which is to say, no effect at all. Bit-by-bit policing/censoring the internet is just literally impossible.
I think that content creators need to wrap around the fact that the internet has fundamentally changed how people think about concepts like intellectual property, copyright, etc. Cat's out of the bag, the milk has been spilled, Pandora's box is open. Whoever comes up with the best business method that simply accepts that as unavoidable fact, good bad or indifferent, can make real steps towards finding the way forward.
PHJFDamn pay tents!
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