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Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA
An anonymous reader writes "Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continue on Wednesday as the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, and a handful of other countries secretly negotiate a copyright treaty that includes statutory damages, new search and seizure power, and anti-camcording rules. Now the substance of the Internet chapter has leaked, with information that the proposed chapter would create a 'Global DMCA' with anti-circumvention rules, liability for ISPs, and the possibility of three-strikes and you're out requirements."
This is your fault.
Our fault!? The rest of the world cheered when Obama was elected proclaiming that America had "finally done something right." This is as much everyone else's fault as it is America's. See what happens when you believe warm-fuzzy liberal propaganda!? They go and take your internet away!
Why is it that if I butcher a human being, it's possible to get out of prison in a few years if I show that it was done in a mad emotional state or attributable to some psychosis driving me to attack, but if I butcher a book for a page or a CD for a song in a mad emotional state or neurotic urge to share, I'm likely to be fined into bankruptcy, and potentially imprisoned for *longer* than if I'd attacked a person?
Same reason why Bush attacked Iraq:
Because they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Else he would never have dared (see North Korea).
And that's your solution to the book butchering as well: butcher whatever expert witness which will testify against you, whatever lawyer will represent the MAFIAA, and their case will collapse. You will be sent to prison for butchering these lowlifes, but as you said, you eventually will walk free.
If more people realized this, we wouldn't be in the current mess.