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WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified

Posted by michael on from the one-world-one-treaty dept.

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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  1. This 2nd post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    goes out to the memory of WIPO Troll.

  2. Netcraft Confirms : "Your Rights Online: WIPO Musi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified community when last month IDC confirmed that Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

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    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified has steadily declined in market share. Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified is dead.

    Your Rights Online: WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified is dying

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  4. oh really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  5. ep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This early post for Ida!

  6. You just have to love.. by evilpaul13 · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...the UN, and all the good it does for the world!

    Mod me down, I don't care. God forbid someone questions the saintly United Nations, the ultimate in global fascism.

    1. Re:You just have to love.. by Pstrobus · · Score: -1, Troll

      um, what exactly do the United Nations have to do with a treaty promulgated by US corporate interests? The UN isn't in enforcement (unless it's a war) and they don't have the ability to force anyone to do anything (see: US refusal to pay dues).

      What we have here are a series of loosely organized, neo-governmental organizations (WTO, WIPO) driven by US Corporations. Black helecopters and One World Government are a smokescreen. Read "Jihad vs. McWorld: how the world is coming together and falling apart (and what this means for democracy." The Corps want a bunch of unit consumers with unit desires, packaging indifferent and culturally bland. That way the corps need make only one unit good in any plant in the world and ship it to any consumer in the world.

      Where does the UN come in to this debate? The corps and their lawyers are involved here so are the several governments. The UN has no voice in this.

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      "The conduct of neither [party], if strictly examined, will be irreproachable." -Elizabeth Bennet
  7. Propaganda by usmcpanzer · · Score: 1, Troll

    "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.

  8. LOL from Russia by dee+why · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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    ------------------------ Optimists learn English; pessimists learn Chinese; realists learn Kalashnikov
  9. Re:Region codes for music would be an atrocity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think you have no fucking clue what an atrocity is.

    The destrcution of the world trade center was an atrocity.

    The Nazi deathcamps where an atrocity.

    The khmer rouge was an atrocity.

    Some crummy east european country losing it's right to steal american intellectual property is not an atrocity, ok pal.