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A Look At ACTA Wish Lists For RIAA, BSA, Others

Posted by Soulskill on from the alphabet-soup dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property brings us an analysis of several organizations' goals for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which we've discussed previously. In particular, he points out the anti-privacy views of the Business Software Alliance: "While the ACTA itself is not public, the US Trade Representative has at least released the ACTA comments. While many of them are to be expected, such as the RIAA & co. wanting copyright filters, one item on the BSA's wish list really stands out: 'In a number of European countries one of the biggest impediments to efforts by rights holder to enforce their IP rights on the Internet is the overbroad interpretation of privacy laws by some European authorities.' They want ACTA to 'fix' that by neutering the privacy laws. Given the BSA's other questionable activities, it couldn't hurt to tell their member companies what you think of their participation. After all, organizations like the BSA exist in part to shield their members from bad PR." Full documents of comments from the various organizations are available at Public Knowledge.

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  1. is all of them by theblondebrunette · · Score: 3, Informative

    crap, the list contains pretty much every company that I know of, including those that I work for.. Alright, Google is not there, but our beloved Apple is in, so what's up with that?
    From the wiki:
            * Adobe Systems
            * Apple Inc.
            * Autodesk
            * Avid Technology
            * Bentley Systems
            * Borland
            * CA, Inc.
            * Cadence Design Systems
            * Cisco Systems
            * CNC Software/Mastercam
            * Corel Corporation
            * Dell
            * EMC Corporation
            * Entrust
            * Hewlett-Packard
            * IBM
            * Intel Corporation
            * Intuit
            * McAfee
            * Microsoft
            * Monotype Imaging
            * Network Associates
            * Oracle Corporation
            * PTC
            * Quark
            * Quest Software
            * RSA Security
            * SAP
            * SolidWorks
            * Sybase
            * Symantec
            * Synopsys
            * The Mathworks
            * UGS PLM Solutions Inc.

    1. Re:is all of them by badpazzword · · Score: 3, Informative

      The one on that list that surprises me is Intel. They make very little software

      http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm?iid=siteindex+prod_software

      They produce C++ and Fortran compilers, debuggers, performance analysers, "cluster tools".

      I'm not sure about their market share, but that's a non negligible amount of software IMHO.

      --
      When ideas fail, words become very handy.
  2. Re:They will never stop by mrogers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look how little it does here in the US, then imagine how much worse it could get if Congress (both houses) were appointed by the various State governments and not elected, and if the President were a rotating chair that round-robined between the Governors of various States.

    The European Parliament is elected by the citizens, not the member states, and the President is largely a figurehead whose powers aren't comparable to those of the US President. There's a lot I don't like about the structure of the EU (such as the fact that only the Commission can propose new legislation), but your comparison with the US system is way off target.