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 will strangle

[catmandue]

The goose that lays the golden egg that is the internet one day.

They _ARE_ strangling

[Lead Butthead]

and considering the utter populace indifference, they will prevail.

Re:They _ARE_ strangling

[fustakrakich]

Look at the mass amount of letters and phone calls and emails sent in during the SOPA and PIPA hearings

They had no effect whatsoever. It wasn't until Google, Apple, HP, etc got involved did anybody listen. We simply don't have the capital to direct anything. People could try voting for different politicians I suppose, but they seem unwilling out of the irrational fear of losing what they have.

Re:Well shit

[ewibble]

Well there is no bigger crime than potentially reducing the profits of corporations

Yet more proof ...

[gstoddart]

Yet more proof we live in a global oligarchy, championed by assholes, who have stacked the deck so heavily in favor of corporations the rest of us are completely fucked.

Everything in these damned treaties are about maximizing the profits of multinational corporations, and don't benefit the citizens.

The treaties are basically theft on a global scale designed to give corporations more rights than people.

This is really American politicians fucking over everybody else in the world because they're so undeniably on the fucking payroll of the corporations it isn't even funny.

It is now pretty much a moral imperative we either start eating the rich, or start copyright infringement on such a massive scale they simply can't do anything about it.

We've sold the farm on the bullshit promise that what is good for greedy assholes and corporations somehow uplifts us all, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The pressing problems we need to solve in the world haven't got a fucking thing to do with copyright.

This treaty is a terrible idea.

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.

You gotta view it from the *ELITE* pov

[Taco Cowboy]

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

Re:Global framework of laws

[gstoddart]

Now, ask yourself, which nation states are most actively advancing corporate interests because their politicians are on the payroll?

This is the world being taken over by corrupt politicians who report only the those corporations, which means the rest of the world needs to be looking at these "trade" treaties and asking "in what way does this benefit our citizens, our economy, or our jobs".

Because the short answer is "it doesn't, it maximizes corporate profits at the expense of everybody else".

We're basically being robbed to allow multinationals carve up the world for themselves. And it's being championed by politicians who are lining their pockets at our expense.

Fighting back the only way it seems I can

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to buy all of the media I consumed. It seemed to be the right thing to do.

Now they say I can't rip the media I bought to use it when and where I want. I'm infringing simply by watching it where I work and on my way to work (oil rig, hotel on the way).

A treaty from another country gets to write my country's laws? And we don't have any say in it?

I am so sickened by all this that I stopped purchasing media. It only funds these assholes. I have no respect for copyright any more. Why should I? There is no respect for the consumer any more. I'm a freetard now.

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.

Ok, kids, here is the deal

[Opportunist]

Next time you want to have music, don't download it. Go into a store, kick the guard in the nuts and grab the CD. Alternatively, find some old granny on the street, hit her over the head and grab her purse, then pay for your downloads.

The reason is simple: If you get caught, you'll be doing much less time.