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ACTA Text Leaks; US Caves On ISPs, Seeks Super-DMCA
An anonymous reader writes "Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest
version of the draft agreement (PDF) was leaked last night on KEI's
website. The new version — which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations
last month in Washington — shows a draft agreement that is much closer
to becoming reality. Perhaps the most
important story of the latest draft is how the
countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement
chapter. In
the face of opposition, the US has dropped its demands on secondary
liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a
super-DMCA with digital lock
rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected
by US courts."
We only get once chance to defeat ACTA.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
ACTA Text Leaks
Surely not. That would be infringing their copyright.
The goverment officials dealing with this have absolutely no understanding of how this law will affect the world for generations to come.
We're getting awfully close to needing the 4th box...
Now is really the time to get encrypted, decentralized networks with Onion routing working at a practical level and not just for academic enjoyment. I've had great expectations in GNUnet, but apparently it is pretty hard to port. Freenet has also never convinced me whenever I tried it. Are the technical obstacles really so hard to overcome? What about pervasive email encryption with automatic installation and more widespread use of SSL? What is holding all these technologies back?
Since this effects all of us in a huge way, there will be some sort of referendum which will see what the PEOPLE want and not just the corporation-bribed governments.
Experts say it'll happen on the 30th of Feburary at Half Past Never.
Do you want the US to have a strong economy, or not?
Information is our primary export. If we can't force other countries to pay us for this stuff, not only will we lose our position of dominance in the global economy, but our own economy will suffer horribly. You think stock returns are bad now? You think unemployment is high now? Just wait. If America can't get control of information soon, we are royally screwed.
ACTA has many bad parts, such as entrenching DRM and the deadly effects of pharmaceutical patents, but it also has terrible effects for software patents:
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/ACTA_and_software_patents
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Criminalising_patent_infringement_is_draconian
Expert in software patents or patent law? Contribute to the ESP wiki!
You voted for this crap (slashdot is overwhelmingly democrat). It started with Clinton and DMCA and now you have OBAMA ("transparent", "change you can believe in") doing this crap (and behind closed doors to boot). Bend over and say again how much you love getting fucked by your boys.
There is ZERO push back against this. None. No press. No protests. No letter writing. Zero. It will become law unless you take your head out of the sand and say something anywhere but slashdot.
Obama has his dick firmly in your ass, Slashdorks. What was all that bullshit about the Democrats being so different? What was all that shit about going from one big party to the other big party would be like a Renaissance of the modern era? This couldn't have happened to dumber people.
BTW: How's the repeal of the PATRIOT Act going? LOLZ!!!!
It's the only way to change things. Get the PP large enough that the bastards in the other parties have to deal with it, which they'll do by co-opting their politics. It's what they always do when smaller parties come in and threaten the nice 50/50 balance the block have set up.
This has to be drilled into everybody's heads.
Copyrights and patents must be abolished, they are part of the death of economies, just like governments regulations, taxes, subsidies, wars, corporate involvement, corruption, stimulus borrowing/printing/spending and bailouts.
All of the above things are killing the economies, these things are making industrialized world uncompetitive and jobs are leaving and no amount of cash can be spent to make the industrialized world competitive again ever because the reason cannot be simply removed by spending.
The reason of the underlying structural breakage of economy is lack of useful production/manufacturing jobs, whose loss has resulted from lack of competitiveness. Competition is the only correct solution to this problem, and copyrights, patents, regulations, wage laws, taxes, subsidies, bailouts, stimulus, wars, corporate corruption are all tied to one main entity: government.
Government is the ultimate force with the power to compel people to do what they do not want to do, and it does so because it craves power, through people who join the government because they crave power, and for them gov't is the ultimate way to get power and money by sharing with corporate friends.
Government involvement in economy must be removed completely and that is the only way to remove incentives to corrupt the government, spending all the money in the world on buying the gov't should NOT buy you a free ride and destruction and structural removal of any competition.
This comment is the actual answer to the question: what the fuck happened to the economy?
You can't handle the truth.
Now is really the time to get encrypted, decentralized networks with Onion routing working at a practical level and not just for academic enjoyment. I've had great expectations in GNUnet, but apparently it is pretty hard to port. Freenet has also never convinced me whenever I tried it. Are the technical obstacles really so hard to overcome? What about pervasive email encryption with automatic installation and more widespread use of SSL? What is holding all these technologies back?
Once something is made significantly illegal and if the government is motivated enough, they'll pay their informants to infiltrate your private encrypted network and capture the IP addresses that way. The informants will host the exit nodes.
Some of us are aliens who do not even live in the USA. And we certainly did not vote for a world-wide police state.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
i like this bit "adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures." well seeing as there are NO effective technologies to prevent the circumvention ...
the old story about building a better mouse trap .
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
the US ...is still holding out hope of establishing...rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by US courts.
That would be precisely why the forces of intellectual darkness and their minions within the U.S. government are pushing for this with such rabidity, and in such secrecy. Unless it's flat-out unconstitutional (a much, much narrower standard than simply "illegal"), anything in this treaty will supersede U.S. courts and U.S. law.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little...ah, fuck it. We do the unconstitutional immediately, too."
Reality.
If the DMCA provision passes, I promise that from that point I won't spend a single cent on anything made by anybody who supports or takes advantage of it, and that I will make every effort discourage other people and companies from purchasing those things.
All my money will instead go on software, hardware and music without DRM and under liberal licenses, as well as organizations that oppose this kind of legislation. I will especially contribute to any attempts to eliminate patents and heavily restrict copyright.
I guess Wikileaks does have to leak out government docs. One more thing...." The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing.
Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music.
Sharkey, a campaigner against people copying music on the internet and the technology they use, said it had become apparent that technology and creativity were inseparable.
"It's now time for ISPs and tech companies to sit down together and possibly for the first time have a broad adult conversation. Our future is now totally dependent, totally entwined, totally symbiotic," he told an audience of industry, government and media at the Westminster Forum this morning....."
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/4/uk-music-calls-truce-technology/
Sharkey was on rousing form. The former pop star called dramatically for the mobilization of British music and technology producers: "By 2020. We. Want. To rival. The United States. As the largest. Source of repertoire. And artistry. In. The. World."
Who cares if your American diplomats sign any agreements, it's your government that created and is forcing ACTA on the majority of the world!
It's not "treason" when your country desires it, at least your court system still believes the US is a republic. For how long is another question.
That's only if it's ratified in the Senate as a treaty. The Obama administration has already signaled that they want to enact it as an executive agreement if possible.
How far will this shit have to go before we start shooting these fat bastards in the face?
I'm not an expert on this, but I believe Presidents can enter into executive agreements with other countries only until the President's actions affect US citizenry. Then we've got an ultra vires issue or presentment problem unless congress passes the agreement.
Executive agreements obviously cannot violate the Constitution. Since the Reid v. Covert decision, the U.S. has made it explicit that although the U.S. intends to abide by a treaty, if the treaty is ruled in violation of the Constitution by federal courts, then the U.S. legally can't follow the treaty since the U.S. signature would be ultra vires.
Plus treaty law (including executive agreements, congressional-executive treaties, and real treaties) is incorporated into the body of U.S. federal law. So congress can modify or repeal treaties afterwards, and SCOTUS can review it.
However, I'm still wary. According to an EFF article published in The Yale Journal of International Law [PDF]. Even if this article is true, the agreements are still subject to modification after they're passed, but that shouldn't be good enough.
You seem to be assuming a justice system that is beyond just nominally "working", but 100% efficient and cost-free to the harmed party, and that everyone is going to have full knowledge, and ample evidence, of the harms that are about to be inflicted upon them (or are being inflicted).
Your example of people getting sent to jail for things like drug possession is curious -- that's an instance of the government pursuing criminal charges, not of individuals bringing civil lawsuits. Exactly the thing that you say doesn't work (not that the War on Drugs(tm) is all that successful, but that's another matter...). If someone breaks into my home, steals my things, and shoots me, should it be up to my next of kin to gather evidence, hire a lawyer, and file a lawsuit against the perpetrator?
Should I file the pollution lawsuit after I've got cancer, and find out what was being dumped into the water supply? Small comfort that'll be, and maybe the entity responsible (at least on paper) doesn't even exist anymore.
You thought you should get everything for free. But, you're like a parasite who thinks your host will continue to tolerate you forever. When the chickens come home to roost, you want to disavow blame. My finger is pointed squarely at you. This is your fault.
My point is precisely that there must be NO COMMONS.
I am hereby giving notice that you have been discovered inhaling air, some of which was within the air rights of my property at the time that I bought it (it's your job to figure out whose air the wind blew toward you -- especially if you want to know whom to sue if it's polluted, and you can prove it was that specific breath that made you sick...).
Further unauthorized use of this privately owned asset shall be grounds for litigation. I hope your lawyer's as good (i.e. expensive) as mine.
I don't think a private owners would lobby to set a liability cap on damages caused by an oil spill in his private property
The owners of the oil rig sure would. Do the owners of surrounding property have as much money to spend on lobbyists to represent their interests?
every p2p user should just drop there net connections and show the isps HOW MUCH MONEY they will lose especially since they dong all these "upgrades" it would destroy the tech sector completely
This would turn almost everyone I know into a felon. Convicted felons can't vote. Used to be, they didn't want poor people to vote. Now it looks like they're going to go after the intelligent and informed.
Unless it's flat-out unconstitutional (a much, much narrower standard than simply "illegal"), anything in this treaty will supersede U.S. courts and U.S. law.
And this is why all the OTHER countries shouldn't be falling for all these super restrictive ACTA regulations. They seem to think that just because it gets passed, they'll be able to use all these things against americans that break the treaty when what will happen is: American companies will be able to force this shit in all other countries since they likely won't have some sort of rule to protect their citizens from the bad shit - yet the foreign companies will not be able to do jack shit to an american company that's doing the EXACT same thing to them since no laws can be made in the US to enforce those particular parts of ACTA due to it being unconstitutional.
In short: The world is letting the US grab it by the balls.
We as citizens are so screwed.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
There, fixed that for you.
Remember who is really driving this, it's not about enforcing current copyrights at home, ACTA is about enforcing US copyright laws and indefinite copyright in other nations.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Every time someone on slashdot posits a global wireless mesh they get beaten back because of how slow it'll be to transfer several gigs of porn over it. Last I checked the information that we need to know, to liberate from censorship, was basic text, heck a lot of it is currently representable in ASCII. So what if we step back a decade to the age of the text only bulletin board. At least these BBs will be automatically backed up, re-routed and physically located nowhere, so will be uncensorable.
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
there will be some sort of referendum which will see what the PEOPLE want Given the history of American Appellate courts overturning laws enacted by Prop 8 and Prop 25 in California, it won't matter a whit. The American Voter has always had the illusion of holding the power...that is until someone whispers in a Judges ear...
Windows assumes you are an idiot...Linux demands proof.
Have you tried I2P? It's an encrypted anonymous network (since 2003) that is actually designed for 'sharing' large amounts of data at high speeds that depend more on your hardware than the network itself. (I've shared at least a few terabytes myself).
It's different than TOR since it is an 'internal' style network, with only one 'out' connection to the actual internet. There are _no_ exit nodes or other 'trusted' people on the network. It has it's own websites (that people set up - you can too), bittorrent trackers (comes with a built-in anonymous bittorrent client, i2psnark), mail (which can be sent to regular internet sites like gmail), forums, and chat. More features are being added, and lots of people are using it and getting involved.
So don't think it's just for sharing movies. I've gotten leaked docs and banned books, talked liberally with others on sensitive topics, and done a lot of other things that IMHO other people don't need to know. Privacy and freedom of access and speech are not simply privileges, they are "God given" rights. If those in power won't give it to us, then it is up to us to make it happen.
Check it out (works on almost any system). Jump zone is here:
Home page: http://www.i2p2.de/
Downloads: https://www.i2p2.de/download