Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist, a leading critic of the ACTA secret copyright treaty, has produced a new interactive timeline that traces its development. The timeline includes links to leaked documents, videos, and public interest group letters that should generate increasing concern with a deal that could lead to a global three-strikes and you're out policy."

Comments

Re:Wow.

[aronschatz]

I watch Fox News... Can you explain to me just how what you're feeling is the same as what I'm feeling? I'm tired of seeing our freedoms being flushed down the toilet by both parties.

Oh, you're probably painting me as a stupid person (for watching Fox News), right?

Re:Emailgate

[lgw]

Here's one analysis of the Antarctica temperature record stuff. Several people around the web are trying to make sense of the data.

There's been an amazing surge in amature interest in science over the past month, as people plunge into the raw data and do their own analyses to see if the numbers are cooked as badly as they seem to be from the climategate emails. Whatever else comes of that, the renewed interest in science is wonderful, especially from the right. Climategate may eventually kill intelligent design!

Also, it makes me laugh to see YouTube videos about temperature analysis, and see that they're clearly is better science than the fraudulently peer reveiwed stuff, becuase the amatures reveal their data and methodology for review where the climte "scientists" hid everything. Well, now we now why they were secretive, but how can you call something "science" if you refuse to publish your sources and methods so that a skeptic can validate or falsify your experiments?

Re:Emailgate

[lgw]

Ahh, I think you're right - like I said, I find it hard to follow that ever-changing bill (just in the time since I posted it's apparantly not "medicare at 50" any longer - does anyone voting on this know what's in it?).

Here's one analysis of the Antarctic temperature record stuff. Several people around the web are trying to make sense of the data. It looks like the one climate station they liked wasn't near Mount Erebus, but on the peninsula (there are a couple of volcanoes out there, but I don't think they're active).

There's been an amazing surge in amature interest in science over the past month, as people plunge into the raw data and do their own analyses to see if the numbers are cooked as badly as they seem to be from the climategate emails. Whatever else comes of that, the renewed interest in science is wonderful, especially from the right. Climategate may eventually kill intelligent design!

BTW, if you haven't seen this data, you should. Ignore the blog poster's blathering and skip to the charts. You can validate all the data if you doubt it, but I've been following the Vostok ice core data for years now. There's a reason few geologists buy into the global warming panic (of course, a geologist may be thinking "meh, in 100 million years it will all blow over, blink of an eye really").