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Latest Version of ACTA Leaks
An anonymous reader writes "Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid points to a freshly leaked version of ACTA available on La Quadrature Du Net. While the text will need further analysis, the most recent look at the text suggests that there is no Three Strikes law, but anti-circumvention laws have a new twist to them with regard to exceptions in that 'they do not significantly impair the adequacy of legal protection [...] or the effectiveness of legal remedies for violations of those measures.' Overall, the text still hints at a global DMCA with notice-and-takedown."
Ars Technica recently ran a story on how non-transparent they've been since they gave out their official release in April, along with further links.
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I'd like to know how the rest of the world can stop this.
From my perspective, this is basically an export of a law the US already has -- the DMCA.
I feel that far too many things that are already legal for many of us (fair use for example) is being stripped to cater to the interests of the MPAA and RIAA -- who are largely formed of multinationals who have a vested interest in getting every country to settle on the most draconian of laws.
As to the legalities, who knows. We're talking about a treaty being done in secret with no room for public input. For reasons I've never understood, all of the information about the content and process of this needs to be kept secret -- likely because people would realize how badly they're getting railroaded all in the name of protecting US movies from being copied.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Don't forget the tens of thousands of media hungry, 1337 skilled and most importantly, CYNICAL, 30-somethings who have been through all of this before.
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Sometimes I think the whole draconian copyright thing is a trick by the EFF to get people to develop darknets which will then also be used for human rights purposes by third world dissidents. It has to be - there's just no way anyone can actually be this stupid.