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TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Website Blocking, New Criminal Rules On the Way
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.
and considering the utter populace indifference, they will prevail.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
...Thomas Jefferson
When in doubt children go back to the founding fathers, they were the revolutionaries of their time and saw a LOT of this shit coming and did their best to stop it. It was only by decades of perverting the law of the land, through treasonous bribery and outright corruption, that this country was able to get into such a state.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Wrong. You can download all you want, you just can't SHARE a movie. When people get in trouble for downloading, it's because they were using torrents, and sharing as they downloaded.
I'm currently being sued for something I didn't download. Don't get me wrong, I torrent all the time, just the title I'm accused of sharing I never touched.
You would think... except many of those media companies are themselves owned by multi-nationals that dwarf Microsoft and Google put together.
1: Buy a gun, preferably something rifle-like with a decent range on it and a reputation for accuracy.
2: Buy ammo.
3: Buy MORE ammo.
4: Shoot anyone involved in advancing this idiotic agenda.
5: Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 until you achieve your objective or are caught and killed.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I would have thought that would be incompatible with the legal systems of most countries. "Damages" are normally limited to the real loss suffered by the plaintiff/claimant. "Punitive damages" is a US thing.
The noun form of "elite" refers to one or more. It has no plural form, any more than "sick" does. It just makes you sound ignorant when you say "elites". Do you say "helping the sicks"?
That's an overly narrow take on the word "elite" and its various meanings. Yes, in one construction, "elite" is a (usually plural) collective noun referring to a class of people or things that are superior. "The Silicon Valley elite are conspiring to keep the lowly programmer down, man!"
But unlike "sick," "elite" need not be a collective noun. Right there in the dictionary definition, you can see a member of "the elite" is "an elite," and multiple such members would be plural "elites." Just because you have 3 Rockefellers and 2 Kennedys in a room together, does not reconstitute the whole murky cabal that is "the elite"--you have 5 elites. This construction also conveys a subtle connotation of particularity. You may say the "wealthy elite" are, as a class, not paying enough taxes, but you'd refer to "wealthy elites" who are being investigated for tax evasion.
Now, GP's usage is closer to the first meaning, and it would've been fine to use "elite." But, whether intended or not, using "elites" gives the statement a slightly different spin. It reads not as [the whole of landed gentry] or [the class of one percenters], but rather a nonspecific-but-interested subset of the wealthy and powerful who want to further criminalize infringement of their IP.
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