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CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the how-pleasant dept.

PingXao writes "The BSA, RIAA and MPAA successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress to include DMCA-like provisions in the recently approved CAFTA treaty, according to CNet. Among other provisions, Chapter 15 of the treaty requires treaty signatories to allow software patents, extend Copyright protections to 70 years after the author's death, and make it illegal to produce 'circumvention devices' for protected works."

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  1. Waste of time by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'"

    'Odd,' said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'

    'I did,' said Ford, 'It is.'

    'So,' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't the people get rid of the lizards?'

    'It honestly doesn't occur to them,' said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'

    'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'

    'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'

    'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'

    'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in'"

    -- Douglas Adams