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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Scramasax on March 05, 2010, 01:21:25 AM

Title: ACTA
Post by: Scramasax on March 05, 2010, 01:21:25 AM

I made a topic for this earlier, but it must have been eaten by the recent site crash.

ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement being discussed by many countries in secret regarding intellectual property and copyright enforcement.  All we really know about it comes from leaked documents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement)

The latest leak points to specific countries and their involvement.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4829/125/ (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4829/125/)

I thought peopel might find this interesting/scary.

Title: Re: ACTA
Post by: RoyMoy on March 05, 2010, 04:38:20 AM

I already had a similar thread on this. It mainly seems to me that the big American entertainment companies are the ones mainly pushing this. Before this lobbying nonsense happened, I was already disgusted by RIAA's mass litigation campaign that I've sworn them off completely (they're not even worth pirating/bootlegging).

ACTA's precursor, the DMCA has proven to be highly controversial and has caused all sorts of censorship issues.

Here's a nice laundry list of problems caused by the DMCA (and will be caused worldwide by ACTA)

http://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca (http://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca)

Title: Re: ACTA
Post by: RoyMoy on March 11, 2010, 03:22:49 AM

Looks like ACTA got curb stomped by the EU parliament the moment the moment it tried to show it's face in the light of day. A resolution on ACTA passed nearly unanimously (633 favor, 13 against, 16 abstain). The resolution includes a condemnation of the secret nature of the negotiation process and an explicit rejection of a "three strikes" (getting disconnected from the internet on 3 accusations of copyright infringement) law.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4857/125/ (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4857/125/)

Title: Re: ACTA
Post by: Scramasax on March 17, 2010, 08:35:36 PM

And on the other side of the lake, Obama is still trying to support it.  Unfortunately, even if I could go back and change my vote, McCain would probably be even more tech-clueless.

Title: The Wellington Declaration
Post by: RoyMoy on April 11, 2010, 08:53:05 PM

http://publicacta.org.nz/wellington-declaration/ (http://publicacta.org.nz/wellington-declaration/)

Please read and sign.

Title: Re: ACTA
Post by: RoyMoy on April 22, 2010, 01:50:47 AM

Well they finally released the text though the leaked version of the treaty has been out for several weeks.

ACTA arrives (still bad, but a tiny bit better)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars)