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TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Website Blocking, New Criminal Rules On the Way

Posted by timothy on from the there's-a-free-market-out-there-somewhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) [Wednesday] morning released the May 2015 draft of the copyright provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership (copyright, ISP annex, enforcement). The leak appears to be the same version that was covered by the EFF and other media outlets earlier this summer. Michael Geist unpacks the leaked documents, noting the treaty includes anti-circumvention rules that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties, new criminal rules, the extension of copyright term for countries like Canada and Japan, increased border measures, mandatory statutory damages in all countries, and expanding ISP liability rules, including the prospect of website blocking for Canada.

3 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yet more proof ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The sad fact is that there was and is, only one evil empire in the world.

    Systemd.

  2. Re:WTF can we do? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm pretty sure the *ELITES* have convinced you that the Ds and the Rs are different.

    Whatever.

  3. Re:Well shit by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny enough in some countries that are pushing for 'hard time' for copyright infringement, I could commit manslaughter(maybe as much as 2nd degree) here in Canada and be out before they would be.

    Of course, they want it for the threat, not the actual incarceration rate.

    Not a bona-fide Made Man with establishment credentials? Starting to get traction in local elections? A nice man in a black suit shows up at your door step with a suitcase full of printout (on tractor feed paper). He sits down in your living room and shows you and your wife the list of hundreds of copyright infringements you have committed, and asks you wouldn't it be a shame if your wife and kids were put out on the street because you were languishing in jail for longer than someone who committed manslaughter and really wouldn't it be a good idea to withdraw from the race and stop making press? Of course it would. And he was never there. And nobody would believe you if you said he was.