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."

Comments

Re:Time for Tea?

[SaDan]

Right after you head to Washington D.C. and find them in the right town. ;-)

Finally

[chickenrob]

The full and unequivical end of file shareing! Don't you think?

Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle

[bberens]

I think it would be funny if it really worked that way. Okay Mr. RIAA, I 'stole' one copy of Metallica's album. Here's 10k copies in return. You owe me $5 million. Thanks, and come again any time!

Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle

[DataBroker]

You seem to be assuming the rest of the world uses US laws. Stop it.

Don't piss off Amerika or we'll bring liberty to your country too!

Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle

[schmiddy]

I 'stole' one copy of Metallica's album. Here's 10k copies in return.

You know.. You can get blank CDs these days for under $0.05-$0.10 cents per disk, and USPS Media Mail lets you mail CDs for dirt cheap. Anyone up for a massive campaign of "returning" pirated MP3s to the RIAA, on hundreds of CDs, via USPS? Maybe with a return address of "Lars Ulrich,..."