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Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty

Posted by timothy on from the your-life-is-their-playpen dept.

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!"

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  1. You have no chance. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Capitalism will crush you.

    1. Re:You have no chance. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      In Soviet Russia, You crush capitalism! ..oh, wait....

  2. Cool linky dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey
    Only 10 hyperlinks in the post!?!?
    Which ones should I *really* go through anyway?

    Boy!! Ain't it cool reading the posts about the same thing daily

    Oops forgot that this is /.

  3. Re:That else are the gonna do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Linux, Windows or OSX? Hey... Tux is the cutest mascot.

    For the systems listed, Tux is the only mascot.

  4. Re:That else are the gonna do? by tds67 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    That else are the gonna do?

    May I mamoo dogface to the banana patch?

  5. Contraceptives by pjt33 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, sex would still be legal if you used contraceptives.

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    Andy Out!