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.

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They _ARE_ strangling

[Lead Butthead]

and considering the utter populace indifference, they will prevail.

Re:Yet more proof ...

[hairyfeet]

"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.

Re:WTF can we do?

[Chas]

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.