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Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing
An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation went through a recent leak of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, an international treaty in development that (among other things) would impose new intellectual property laws on much of the developed world. The EFF highlights one section in particular, which focuses on the punishments for copyright infringement. The document doesn't set specific sentences, but it actively encourages high monetary penalties and jail terms. Its authors reason that these penalties will be a deterrent to future infringement. "The TPP's copyright provisions even require countries to enable judges to unilaterally order the seizure, destruction, or forfeiture of anything that can be 'traceable to infringing activity,' has been used in the 'creation of pirated copyright goods,' or is 'documentary evidence relevant to the alleged offense.' Under such obligations, law enforcement could become ever more empowered to seize laptops, servers, or even domain names."
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As content is worth less and less, they need to do something to prop up the profit structure.
Sad thing is, if the content being infringed is worth less and less, why are people getting stiffer and stiffer penalties for infringing?
... https everywhere, constant VPNs and full encryption for everything...
Trivially blocked by your service provider. This continuing single point of failure is the obstacle to overcome. Not much can be accomplished before then.
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If we continue to cultivate a society where even the most crafted and artisan digital items are throwaway flash sale detritus, how can we expect to continue enjoying the talented minds that create them?
interesting.
when profits drop to reasonable levels for music and movies, they'll get made / created by people with a love for the art, as opposed to a love for money. sounds fine.
Trivially blocked by your service provider. This continuing single point of failure is the obstacle to overcome. Not much can be accomplished before then.
More importantly those VPN logs are subject to seizure by law enforcement with the appropriate warrant or other legal instrument deemed valid by the Government and the Courts of Law. Show me a VPN service provider that is not subject to lawful access by law enforcement.
So big media is finally going to off itself, or cause an uprising, one way or the other. So either everyone who was pirating and consuming more content will stop, and their sales will plummet. Or the people who can't afford media, due to unemployment/low wages are going to have even less stuff to keep them entertained. Should be fun to watch the crime increase as these people have to leave their homes for entertainment. Personally I think it'll just cause a shift away from film/tv back to gaming. Games last longer, are replayable, and cost less than films.
Intellectual monopoly is a danger to real property rights. You cant own something if you aren't allowed to configure it how you want.
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As the saying goes: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."
But treaties circumvent three of those boxes.
Guess which one is left.
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"destruction, or forfeiture of anything that can be 'traceable to infringing activity,' has been used in the 'creation of pirated copyright goods," So we can get the mpaa's members' equipment, cameras, sound stages and whatnot destroyed or forfeited because all the pirated copyright goods trace back to where the material was created and distributed?
Sounds like a recipe for government confiscation of private property.
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Commercial companies which exist to make money can't just block something everyone uses and expect to remain a viable company with paying customers.
With their protected monopolies they certainly can do what they want, and the voters will grumble and then dutifully reelect for the fifth time the crooked politicians that made the deal.
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I would be flattered.