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US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement
An anonymous reader sends word that Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a 'Pirate Bay killing' multi-lateral trade agreement, called 'ACTA,' with the EU, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and New Zealand. "The proposal includes clauses designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the Internet, which would also affect transparency sites such as Wikileaks. The Wikileaks document details provisions that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. If adopted, the treaty would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon Internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools."
Never mattered to Bush in the first place, so what's the problem?
You know, we tried to get people to listen and understand what is truly wrong with this country. In the end, the citizens voted like sheep for Obama, Clinton, and McCain. If people would take as much time learning about the elections and candidates as they do with American Idol, this country would be a lot better off.
My problems with ACTA run far deeper than just this issue. As I see it, this is just another "managed trade" agreement like NAFTA and CAFTA. Basically, the U.S. taxpayer is on the hook to raise the standard of living in countries like Albania, Bosnia, and Slovakia while our own standard of living is brought down even further to match those countries. We need to put an end to this now.
Keywords being "going to toss" and "not previously a crime". Moreover the US gulag system is unique in the western world.
Web 1.0, the Empire Strikes Back
Web 2.0 have no way to survive if you gets penalized for something an unknown person post in your site, and along with it, anything that puts visitors content/comments on it (including slashdot, of course)
Is nice to see America invading/blocking/penalizing/whatever other countries to give them freedom... like this.