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Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed (freezenet.ca)

Posted by timothy on from the if-that-is-your-real-text dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes: Freezenet seems to be the first website to publish a full run-down of the final draft of the Intellectual Property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The leak was published on Wikileaks earlier. The analysis seems to confirm what the EFF has said, saying that the chapter "confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations." The analysis focuses mainly on copyright enforcement on the Internet and the impact the chapter would have on personal devices, VPN services, and ISPs. One noteworthy find by Freezenet is the inclusion of a "TPP Commission" which would decide when different countries are supposed to meet outside of the 10-year cycle, discussing "market circumstances" of "the development of new pharmaceutical products." What other roles the TPP Commission takes on is unclear given that it is not mentioned anywhere else in the chapter.

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  1. Re:Obama Hatred Of USA In Writing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    fuck off you racist idiot

  2. Re:So to summarize... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, more like by the horse they rode in on.

    This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them.

    This shit needs to stop. Because governments should be looking out for our interests, instead of lying to us and telling us what is good for corporations benefits us.

    Welcome to the oligarchy kids. We're all pretty much fucked now.

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  3. Governments = Evil. by roman_mir · · Score: 1, Insightful

    For those who are still very thick in the head and cannot comprehend the simplest thing since for the first time in history of this planet a rock was used to bash somebody on the head, I would like to repeat this axiom: governments = evil.

    Government is an evil structure by its very definition, as it is set up to provide the collective with violent means of dominating an individual. Whatever system that is fundamentally based on violence can not and will not avoid using violence to increase its own power, and a government is seen as legitimate by its very definition, doesn't it? It's the *government* after all, it is there to serve and protect...

    Here is your problem: you are not the ones it will be serving and protecting once it manages to grow its power enough with its legitimate use of violence. It will dominate and subjugate you and it will imprison you.

    I will also repeat something I said for nearly two decades now: abolish government protected copyrights and patents.

    Government exists to use power and it ends up using its power against you, understand it and work against it. Copyrights and patents are a manner used to create monopoly power for specific individuals. Many of you believe that monopolies are the property of free market capitalism, however in a free market capitalism monopolies are temporary and their existence depends on them providing a good enough product / service in the most cost effective way possible.

    With government there is no such requirement, government simply sets up monopolies and uses its violent power to maintain them. Utility companies, copyright holders, patent holders, military, education, name whatever government does and there is violence there, used to protect somebody's monopoly.

    My position is that TPP is inevitable once government with violent powers exists.

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    1. Re:Governments = Evil. by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Govenments CAN be beneficial for those who lack power if, and only if, the government itself does not ally itself with those in power. Then it is at best useless. At worst compounding the problem.

      An absence of government creates a power vacuum that will instantly be filled by whoever has the most power. In our world this essentially means that the entity with the most money will rule. And of course abuse its power to suppress anyone wanting to either rise to power himself or to force those lacking the ability to defend themselves against it to bend to his interests. In short, that "rich" entity will force the "poor" ones to work against their own interest and for his.

      Any government that supports such a system can as well be considered failed because it serves no purpose. This is the state a society would assume anyway without government.

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    2. Re:Governments = Evil. by tomthepom · · Score: 4, Insightful

      however in a free market capitalism monopolies are temporary and their existence depends on them providing a good enough product / service in the most cost effective way possible.

      ...or product dumping, price fixing, dividing markets, buying up competitors etc. etc.

      In the real world businesses hate competition, and will do anything legal to prevent it.

  4. Re:So to summarize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."

    You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.

    First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

    Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

    Why you can't have capitalist democracy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

    From war is a racket:

    "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

    "War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
    "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

    General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

    http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

    Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

    https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

    What happens when government tries to help its people - greece

    http://williamblum.org/

    US distribution of wealth

    https://imgur.com/a/FShfb/

    http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

  5. Re:Obama Hatred Of USA In Writing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Savior Of America, the half-breed kid, Barak Hussain Obama, is laid on the table.

    Disgusting.

    Ha ha

    Thank you for illustrating perfectly why the people in power get away with this kind of stuff. Instead of looking at reality people are mostly swayed by emotionally driven, partisan nonsense. This isn't unique to the right either, Democrats are 100% guilty of this trash.

    I sure hope while you're digesting your talking points from the same 'lamestream media' that you so pretend to hate that you take a moment to realize that the companies that control the news have the opposite of your best interests in mind.

    I really don't know why I wasted my time, the 'communist muslims leftie gay agenda freedom haters' have already taken over America in your mind, and as the Rambo of your own fantasies it's your job to defend it. "How fortunate leaders that men do not think" - Adolph Hitler