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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.
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.
Om, nomnomnom...
This global framework of laws will render the nation state useless. Corporations will have ALL of the power nation states used to have. And you will have none.
Internet may be the goose that lays the golden egg, to 99% of the people, but to the *ELITES* the same Internet has become a threat to their exclusivity
Before the Internet the masses had no way to know what the *ELITES* were doing - yeah, we may have the trash rags with occasional pics of the *ELTES* doing _something_, but all in all the *ELITES* were well protected, even their scandals could be covered up easily
With the advent of Internet, more and more of the scandals of the *ELITES* have been pried open and leaked into the wild. As more and more of the internal dealings are being known to the masses the status of the *ELITES* has started to crumble
That is why for the *ELITES* the Internet is no necessarily the goose that lays the golden eggs. It is a big threat to them, and is becoming more and more threatening
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Some interesting insight with regards to the possible breaking down of negotiations: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com...
It's a longer-than-a-slashdot-summary-read, but insightful.
Regards
Slashdotgirl
The more I know, the less I know
I believe there is a documentary that shows that pretty much all companies that are large enough to matter (including all media companies) are owned by the 6 large chemical companies.
It was sort of interesting as it showed that a parent company of a soda company bought a media company so they could add more advertisement blocks to sell the soda.
Although it is hard to know because of the secrecy, it seems like there is a whole lot of stuff around 'intellectual property' and corporations getting to sue governments over policy changes which has been pushed hard by the USA and opposed not quite as hard by everyone else. So there is lots of stuff that objectionable to everyone but the USA. (Given that the USA parliaments haven't been allowed to see the TPP, possibly not even they want it. This could be stuff wanted only by the USA negotiators, not the country.)
What I want to see is USA kicked out of the TPP, then renegotiate to get rid of all the bad stuff USA pushed in. After that, the USA can negotiate for a late entry into the agreement. They can propose all this IP stuff, and the rest of us can consider whether we that badly want USA in the TPP.
That is pretty much a pipe dream, but more realistically: I'd like to see the governments of all participating countries go through all the provisions and state how strongly they are for or against them. If there are any bits that are liked only by negotiators, this would show them up.
It really worries me that this is secretly negotiated by people with almost no democratic oversight and will be presented as a monolithic take-it-or-leave-it with greater effective force than the laws of the participating nations.
Buying into the TPP is effectively accepting a huge lump of laws you had almost no say over and are almost impossible to modify in future.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
>And as long as there are cat pictures on YouTube and Reddit forums for people to vent their 2 minutes hate, and plenty of stuff to buy from Amazon
All three are under attack.
1. People are increasingly looking at things like funny looking cats as things to incorporate around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Realistically, lawsuits over the ownership of dank memes are a few years away tops.
2. Reddit is increasingly working at *not* being a place for people to vent their two minute hate, as are facebook and twitter and githhub. Pretty much all corporate entities oriented around community contributions are stressing out about being seen as proponents of hatespeech and clamping down on it.
3. Nations around the world are scrambing to add GST/VAT/other_sales_tax to digital goods and online purchases. There's a solid chance that moving goods through Europe may become harder and more paperwork-heavy in the next few years.