WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified

Greyfox writes: "Here's one that slipped through the cracks. The WIPO (You know, that unelected, unaccountable organization that lives in the Corporate back pockets) has ratified a anti-music piracy treaty which will go into effect on May 20. It apparently has anti-circumvention measures similar to the DMCA and will carry the force of law in the USA and other member countries." We had a more informative story about these two treaties a few months ago. The only new information is that the Phonograms and Performances Treaty now has enough signatures to go into effect in May.

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Propaganda

[usmcpanzer]

"Here's one that slipped through the cracks. The WIPO (You know, that unelected, unaccountable organization that lives in the Corporate back pockets)

thanks for the article, but please, leave the propaganda for the discussion.

LOL from Russia

[dee why]

I am so happy I chose to stay here, in Moscow, where you can pay $2 at a newsstand for a CD full of MP3s or warez!!! Really, f#ck the corporations - I do not feel guilty for countless GBs of music on my harddisk or all the warez I knowingly choose to use. Not at all. I refuse to accept the set of values that evil american corps try to instill upon me, I refuse to recognise so called "intellectual property" - this is not within my set of beliefs and I will not change them to protect somebody's profits. From now on, I will be actively participating in any anti-globalist event I am able to. Before you start bashing me please note that I am a fully grown up person, I earn my living by managing software projects and play guitar in a real band in the evenings.