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Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty
mouthbeef writes "The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping 'signal theft.' But along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted hairball that threatens to make the PC illegal, trash the public domain, break copyleft and put a Broadcast Flag on the Internet. The treaty negotiation process is unbelievably convoluted and hard-to-follow, and they've just wrapped up the latest round in Geneva. But for the first time, a really large group of "civil society" orgs were accredited to attend. Me and another EFF staffer and the Coordinator of the Union for the Public Domain created a heavily editorialized impressionistic transcript of the meeting (EFF mirror, UPD mirror), trying to untie the knots in the negotiation. This is the first time that a really exhaustive peek inside a WIPO treaty negotiation has ever been published -- get it while it's legal!"
Hey, if the government doesn't trash the economy and the rights of individuals in order to protect an outdated and relatively small sector of the business community, what good are they?
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I'm serious. I keep emitting photons, and all these people keep engaging in signal theft, usually by looking at me, or even more nefariously by having cameras.
Don't forget the Swiss!
From the article:
'Switzerland proposed language that "roughly corresponds" to it.'
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participate in the manufacture, importation, sale, or any other act that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal.
Apparently procreation and thinking are not something WIPO is keen on, as the human brain is a "a system" of tissues "capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal".
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
they can have my abacus when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
for Pete's sake just don't broadcast it!! How simple is that. Duh!!
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
WMD to soon mean Weapons of Mass Decryption based on this "treaty".
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Rich capitalist pigs are trying to steal the internet off the people who make it actually work for them.
;)
I say turn the internet off for a couple of days, see how they like that
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Never drive a car when you're dead
They can have my penis when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
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When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
You can have my encrytpion when you pry it from my cold dead hands...er...PDA.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
I wonder if timothy and michael know they are coworkers?
phheww, i was worried I wouldn't be able to use my mac there for a second...
its a joke, laugh.
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However, whether these people realize it or not, it is humanly possible to decrypt or to help decrypt a program carrying signal by hand, starting with nothing more than the raw unencrypted data! Technically, that would make the act of human reproduction illegal, since the child could very conceivably grow up into a person with enough mental accuity to take on a task like that. Yes, it would take time, but there's no mention of how long is has to take in order for the system to be outlawed. This proposal is tantamount to governing what people are legally even allowed to _think_ about and absolutely, categorically, _MUST_ be stopped.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
On the plus side, with no more home computers, nobody will be using Windows anymore either.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
It is as necessary for the government to tightly control the internet as it is for the government to take away an individuals guns. You are here to serve the state and that is all you are here to do, PERIOD. Time to quit whining about liberty and trash like that and get out and start supporting the New World Order. If you are against socialism and the New World Order, then I hope that you are murdered by the government. Submit. You are a slave.
SHHHH! Don't let Bush know air is flamable, he already wants to cut down all the trees in Washington and Oregon because they can catch fire!
Who are these people and when did I vote them in?
I can't use my sig - my computer can't read my handwriting.
If you do not want me listen to your signal then keep your photons off my property! What next? Will I get arrested because the people next door play there stereo too loud and I can hear music I did not pay for.
BTW this law would also make paper and pens illegal. As well as the human brain so I guess sex is also illegal.
"participate in the manufacture, importation, sale, or any other act that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal."
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You should sue him for "article theft"! WIPO-man, take him away! He is clearly infringing on my intellectual property!
"Hence, this treaty outlaws the universe."
Ok, so we _should_ panic?
(iii) participate in the manufacture, [..] that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal.
Umm... Did they just propose outlawing sex? I mean, a human is about the best 'system capable of helping to decrypt an encrypted signal' I can think of.
If you look on the Slashdot games What We're Playing sidebar, you'll notice that Timothy lists his game, as of this writing, as frozen bubble, flightgear, and Kbounce - all open source, linux-based games - while the rest of the /. crew is playing Final Fantasy X-2, Unreal Tournament 2002, KOTOR, RtCW, and the like.
I can draw a few tenatitve inferences from this: that Timothy doesn't have a game console or a windows machine, that he's perhaps exclusively dedicated to open source software, and that he's probably too busy recompiling his kernel to actually read Slashdot.
OHNO! DNA is encoded! therefor DNA will be illegal! quick! everyone get rid of your DNA and RNA!!!
...people on here were getting laid in the first place :)
While we're at it: The entire WIPO needs to get laid and definitely needs to chill for a while - and then disband.
Wha .. Wha? My HDTV isn't letting anything through, what are we talking about? It says to click "Yes" and not worry about it ... is this okay?