Only fairly recently have some of the ACTA Treaty details become public knowledge but already the groundwork is being laid for this new internet world order. It looks like Big Media is not content to wait for the outcome of the treaty they wrote to do away with our internet freedoms.
1. Now ISP's are being pushed to maintain records of your internet activity - which would include any downloads or BitTorrent activity.
This will make ACTA's ISP policed 3 strikes law easy to implement by just extending ISP duties a little.
2. The RIAA/MPAA have also been pushing ISP Copyright policing now. This would likely involve the 3 strikes rule, but just for that ISP.
3. Recently the RIAA/MPAA convinced the FCC that file sharing should NOT be protected under net neutrality. This opens the door to ISP blocking of BitTorrent and other services. (Almost certainly ACTA will squash net neutrality too.)
4. The US champion of ACTA is President Obama. He wants to force his bleak vision of a neutered internet with Copyright policing down not only US throats but down the rest of the world's if possible.
5. Let's not forget how Obama hired RIAA lawyers into the Justice Department. What do you suppose Obama's plans are for them?
It seems to me that we are all voyagers on the digital equivalent of the Titanic. Icebergs have been sighted but no course corrections have been made. Soon our freedoms are going to sink beneath the waves forever just to help Big Media make an extra few dollars!
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Some Congressmen will respond to public pressure by their constituents. Those must hear from everyone who cares about the internet and wants it to stay neutral.
Publicity of ACTA with it's secret agenda designed to support monopolies and destroy the internet should help. If ACTA begins to stink enough "Congressmen" will turn away from it.
And for the rest of our "Congressmen" - they want money which is why the currently support Big Media and ACTA. If we could raise say $2 Million per "Congressmen", that should bribe them to do their jobs.
I wrote my representative with all my many objections to ACTA.
A few days later I received my response. Here is an excerpt.
"For these reasons, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has commenced a multilateral discussion concerning global intellectual property rights, known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). I strongly support intellectual property rights, and I look forward to reviewing the recommendations of USTR in this regard. The United States is a leader in innovation, and to protect the investment made by our innovators, we must also lead the effort to combat global piracy."
As you can see, my representative supports Intellectual property rights but fails to mention internet impact, net neutrality or even the right of citizens to have their views heard. And he obviously supports ACTA at this time.
If this is typical of our congressmen, ACTA will fly through as long as their major supporter, the Media Cartel approves of it.
We should start getting together to buy T1's and bring up alternate networks so we can access the internet versus the ACTAnet or as I call it the Obamanet.
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Secret laws designed to prevent public comment is completely abhorrent by itself but . . .
It the content of the Treaty which is 100% contrary to the interests of the signing countries that is the worst feature of ACTA!
ACTA is written by Big Media and those with a vision to remake the internet into a copyright policing system and ultimately into a pay per use network.
What do they get? Effective monopoly on most media. What do we get? Loss of net neutrality (which is already being removed by the FCC for peer to peer systems). ISP policing with a 3 strikes policy only as fair as the ISP makes it, with no appeal and resulting in permanent loss of internet if invoked.
ACTA is an offensive, poorly written and completely undemocratic power grab designed to take citizens by stealth and surprise and result in Billion dollar empires for the Cartel creating it, not to mention their henchmen the RIAA and MPAA - and in the White House.
Somehow we MUST put a stop to ACTA and to this method of Treaty Takeover!
Now that Italy has come up with this idea I'm worried.
Someone in the group crafting the secret ACTA Treaty (http://eff.org) may see this and incorporate it into the damn treaty unless it's formalized! (Hard for me to know since it's all secret.)
And if the US public cannot find a way to stop the treaty we will end up forced to implement this in US law.
And wouldn't that be nice?
(Of course we have Obama, the RIAA and the MPAA to thank for all this).
It seems to me that this is a direct attack on freedom of speech.
Is there some way that the freedom of speech does not apply here?
You hate the government's policy, you post your complaints on a website and then The Government takes down your site because they don't like your speech?
I smell the stink of Police State here and I cannot stand the stench!
So do you suppose now I can look forward to a 3AM visit for posting this? At least I could find out what an American Gulag looks like.
From that standpoint they are doing us all a favor!
Although a lot of these stories now under eternal copyright were either based on other (uncompensated) author's works or common tales (once public domain). Disney has managed to pull some common fables out of the public domain.
"lining the pockets of the already very-rich" is the sole point of extending copyright. Only they could afford the politicians necessary to make this happen.
But then America exists for the Corporations and the rich, not the citizens.
The whole downward spiral reminds me of a Dr. Who episode in which aliens have taken over politicians and are using them for horrible purposes! Don't those idiots see what they are doing?
I really hope things change and start getting better soon.
I'm really concerned about Britain. News seems to come in on a weekly or bi-weekly basis of new policing, security and other contractions of freedom.
At this rate it will only take 5 years or so before the British people are all housed in Barracks "for their own good" and working on prison factories! And we all know what comes next!
Well I'm exaggerating here, but for a point. I really hope everyone in Britain notices this trend and starts making some changes in their government now while they still can!
You must understand that the authors of these laws are not looking beyond their wallets in considering the law's effects.
If ACTA destroys the internet as we know it but meets their ignorant, short term needs to prop up a failing business model then it's a victory for these fat cats & media moguls.
We better pay attention to ACTA and the new DMCA-like provisions of the Treaty - Because we will all be living under it as soon as our Congressmen vote on it!
Why? Because all it will take to ensure passage is to pay off Congress. And it will happen because Entertainment Companies see it as a great investment. And since almost all of them believe in supporting the Entertainment Industry in anyway, they would not even need the Millions to vote that way.
Also, ACTA will pass because that is how things have been done in the US for over 100 years!
What better way to revive your failing business models than by destroying competition by using a Secret "Government" Treaty that you have funded?
Who can blame the bloated record companies and overpriced distribution companies pushing DRM compromised media? After all it wasn't them that slammed a repressive set of draconian laws down on once-free countries! It was their pawns the Congress! It was their pawn Obama!
So hurry to buy the wares of these companies and blind your eyes to the "special" new prices that have sprung up overnight (and that is part of the plan).
It's all just a special deal to make bigger fortunes more quickly for the rich - presumably with our bewildered cooperation.
And of course Obama feels it's Change We Can Believe in! Gotta love that man.
Though ACTA was started before Obama, Obama is the reason it is gaining momentum and preparing to engulf us.
Obama has a long record of helping huge Corporations and creating wealth for them - not just Health Insurance Companies.
Obama really believes that locking down peoples freedoms to protect Corporate profits and Business Models is right and good.
No doubt Obama was anticipating this Treaty when he hired lawyers from the RIAA to work in the Justice Department. They will be needed to sentence and imprison us when the treaty is rammed down our throats.
Enjoy yourself - we are now living in the good old days of the Internet in the US.
My point is that the Bill looks like what a Republican might be expected to write with a few changes. Especially considering the Bill is a Corporate solution to Healthcare, ironically using the very Companies that triggered the call for Healthcare reform in the 1st place.
I'm aware the the Republicans are currently opposed to anything and everything the Democrats are doing so of course the Bills have no Republican support or sponsorship.
As for the uninsured, Republicans may be right about some of them - people who wish to be uninsured. But what about those that cannot purchase insurance at all either due to financial reasons or due to pre-existing conditions? Would Republicans just advise these people to seek hospice care (paid for by them of course) or to try emergency rooms? Just asking - all I've heard is Rush's suggestion.
Ever wonder why both parties seem so alike & produce such similar legislation? They have much more in common than their differences. The congressmen are almost all serving huge Corporations not the citizens. Both parties are on the same payrolls. Think about this - why did we go to Iraq? One major reason is that a lot of Companies would make Millions if we did.
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Only fairly recently have some of the ACTA Treaty details become public knowledge but already the groundwork is being laid for this new internet world order. It looks like Big Media is not content to wait for the outcome of the treaty they wrote to do away with our internet freedoms.
1. Now ISP's are being pushed to maintain records of your internet activity - which would include any downloads or BitTorrent activity.
This will make ACTA's ISP policed 3 strikes law easy to implement by just extending ISP duties a little.
2. The RIAA/MPAA have also been pushing ISP Copyright policing now. This would likely involve the 3 strikes rule, but just for that ISP.
3. Recently the RIAA/MPAA convinced the FCC that file sharing should NOT be protected under net neutrality. This opens the door to ISP blocking of BitTorrent and other services. (Almost certainly ACTA will squash net neutrality too.)
4. The US champion of ACTA is President Obama. He wants to force his bleak vision of a neutered internet with Copyright policing down not only US throats but down the rest of the world's if possible.
5. Let's not forget how Obama hired RIAA lawyers into the Justice Department. What do you suppose Obama's plans are for them?
It seems to me that we are all voyagers on the digital equivalent of the Titanic. Icebergs have been sighted but no course corrections have been made. Soon our freedoms are going to sink beneath the waves forever just to help Big Media make an extra few dollars!
Some Congressmen will respond to public pressure by their constituents. Those must hear from everyone who cares about the internet and wants it to stay neutral.
Publicity of ACTA with it's secret agenda designed to support monopolies and destroy the internet should help. If ACTA begins to stink enough "Congressmen" will turn away from it.
And for the rest of our "Congressmen" - they want money which is why the currently support Big Media and ACTA. If we could raise say $2 Million per "Congressmen", that should bribe them to do their jobs.
I wrote my representative with all my many objections to ACTA.
A few days later I received my response. Here is an excerpt.
"For these reasons, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has commenced a multilateral discussion concerning global intellectual property rights, known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). I strongly support intellectual property rights, and I look forward to reviewing the recommendations of USTR in this regard. The United States is a leader in innovation, and to protect the investment made by our innovators, we must also lead the effort to combat global piracy."
As you can see, my representative supports Intellectual property rights but fails to mention internet impact, net neutrality or even the right of citizens to have their views heard. And he obviously supports ACTA at this time.
If this is typical of our congressmen, ACTA will fly through as long as their major supporter, the Media Cartel approves of it.
We should start getting together to buy T1's and bring up alternate networks so we can access the internet versus the ACTAnet or as I call it the Obamanet.
Secret laws designed to prevent public comment is completely abhorrent by itself but . . .
It the content of the Treaty which is 100% contrary to the interests of the signing countries that is the worst feature of ACTA!
ACTA is written by Big Media and those with a vision to remake the internet into a copyright policing system and ultimately into a pay per use network.
What do they get? Effective monopoly on most media.
What do we get? Loss of net neutrality (which is already being removed by the FCC for peer to peer systems). ISP policing with a 3 strikes policy only as fair as the ISP makes it, with no appeal and resulting in permanent loss of internet if invoked.
ACTA is an offensive, poorly written and completely undemocratic power grab designed to take citizens by stealth and surprise and result in Billion dollar empires for the Cartel creating it, not to mention their henchmen the RIAA and MPAA - and in the White House.
Somehow we MUST put a stop to ACTA and to this method of Treaty Takeover!
Sounds pretty plausible.
Business must alway maximize revenue and minimize costs. (Public be damned if they get in the way).
Still sucks though, Jack Benny was pretty good!
CBS and many other Corporations appear to have a contempt for the concept of the Public Domain.
To be fair it may be very expensive to preserve this footage, and they don't want to pay for it but I think they are sending us a message:
Giving the choice of destruction of a copy of a work or donation to the public domain, we would destroy anything that won't make us richer.
Or rather "#$%@ the Public Domain".
Maybe when something becomes ready to enter the public domain it needs to be rescued by a Court Order!
Perhaps they already have these and worse ideas!
President Obama's pet "anti-counterfeiting" secret ACTA Treaty has plenty of Copyright related payload to keep it's Big Media sponsors happy.
And since it's secret, we may not know all that's there until it's too late and we have to implement the required Treaty compliant laws!
Our Senators will vote this in because Big Media = Big Contributions unless the public can somehow convince them otherwise.
Now that Italy has come up with this idea I'm worried.
Someone in the group crafting the secret ACTA Treaty (http://eff.org) may see this and incorporate it into the damn treaty unless it's formalized!
(Hard for me to know since it's all secret.)
And if the US public cannot find a way to stop the treaty we will end up forced to implement this in US law.
And wouldn't that be nice?
(Of course we have Obama, the RIAA and the MPAA to thank for all this).
We own the Congress ... and Obama who is championing the super secret ACTA treaty.
Soon we will fine you to oblivion AND kick you of the net!
And your ISP will be required to spy on you and enforce copyright.
We are the RIAA - bow before your new Overlords!
It seems to me that this is a direct attack on freedom of speech.
Is there some way that the freedom of speech does not apply here?
You hate the government's policy, you post your complaints on a website and then The Government takes down your site because they don't like your speech?
I smell the stink of Police State here and I cannot stand the stench!
So do you suppose now I can look forward to a 3AM visit for posting this? At least I could find out what an American Gulag looks like.
Change your tactics! Stop appealing to reason and law solely.
Raise a LOT of money and buy politicians. A strong logical argument and political hired hands would probably get the job done!
From that standpoint they are doing us all a favor!
Although a lot of these stories now under eternal copyright were either based on other (uncompensated) author's works or common tales (once public domain).
Disney has managed to pull some common fables out of the public domain.
"lining the pockets of the already very-rich" is the sole point of extending copyright. Only they could afford the politicians necessary to make this happen.
But then America exists for the Corporations and the rich, not the citizens.
The whole downward spiral reminds me of a Dr. Who episode in which aliens have taken over politicians and are using them for horrible purposes! Don't those idiots see what they are doing?
I really hope things change and start getting better soon.
I'm really concerned about Britain. News seems to come in on a weekly or bi-weekly basis of new policing, security and other contractions of freedom.
At this rate it will only take 5 years or so before the British people are all housed in Barracks "for their own good" and working on prison factories! And we all know what comes next!
Well I'm exaggerating here, but for a point. I really hope everyone in Britain notices this trend and starts making some changes in their government now while they still can!
Once you get something like this started, it is a simple matter to expand the scope to "everyone".
They are just getting their foot in the door now.
Better get together, raise money and buy some politicians.
Since they are almost all for sale, citizens might as well buy some too!
You must understand that the authors of these laws are not looking beyond their wallets in considering the law's effects.
If ACTA destroys the internet as we know it but meets their ignorant, short term needs to prop up a failing business model then it's a victory for these fat cats & media moguls.
We better pay attention to ACTA and the new DMCA-like provisions of the Treaty - Because we will all be living under it as soon as our Congressmen vote on it!
Why? Because all it will take to ensure passage is to pay off Congress. And it will happen because Entertainment Companies see it as a great investment. And since almost all of them believe in supporting the Entertainment Industry in anyway, they would not even need the Millions to vote that way.
Also, ACTA will pass because that is how things have been done in the US for over 100 years!
What better way to revive your failing business models than by destroying competition by using a Secret "Government" Treaty that you have funded?
Who can blame the bloated record companies and overpriced distribution companies pushing DRM compromised media?
After all it wasn't them that slammed a repressive set of draconian laws down on once-free countries! It was their pawns the Congress! It was their pawn Obama!
So hurry to buy the wares of these companies and blind your eyes to the "special" new prices that have sprung up overnight (and that is part of the plan).
It's all just a special deal to make bigger fortunes more quickly for the rich - presumably with our bewildered cooperation.
And of course Obama feels it's Change We Can Believe in! Gotta love that man.
Our markets are not truly free. Regulations favor some players and hinder other players.
And regulations are made by Congress and Congress is for sale to the highest bidder.
Don't forget Congressmen can be your Companies best investment!
It's not the two party system that is the problem it's something that both parties (and even hypothetical 3rd parties) have in common: greed.
Our politicians are almost all for sale to the highest bidder - typically rich Corporations with agendas that will usually harm Americans.
For a million dollars or more the politician becomes the full time servant of their new Corporate masters and stops serving the Citizens.
Note that this problem is insolvable since the politicians would have to approve of any solutions!
As far as support for the MAFIAA, it all depends on how much cash they have doesn't it?
Though ACTA was started before Obama, Obama is the reason it is gaining momentum and preparing to engulf us.
Obama has a long record of helping huge Corporations and creating wealth for them - not just Health Insurance Companies.
Obama really believes that locking down peoples freedoms to protect Corporate profits and Business Models is right and good.
No doubt Obama was anticipating this Treaty when he hired lawyers from the RIAA to work in the Justice Department. They will be needed to sentence and imprison us when the treaty is rammed down our throats.
Enjoy yourself - we are now living in the good old days of the Internet in the US.
My point is that the Bill looks like what a Republican might be expected to write with a few changes. Especially considering the Bill is a Corporate solution to Healthcare, ironically using the very Companies that triggered the call for Healthcare reform in the 1st place.
I'm aware the the Republicans are currently opposed to anything and everything the Democrats are doing so of course the Bills have no Republican support or sponsorship.
As for the uninsured, Republicans may be right about some of them - people who wish to be uninsured. But what about those that cannot purchase insurance at all either due to financial reasons or due to pre-existing conditions? Would Republicans just advise these people to seek hospice care (paid for by them of course) or to try emergency rooms? Just asking - all I've heard is Rush's suggestion.
Ever wonder why both parties seem so alike & produce such similar legislation? They have much more in common than their differences. The congressmen are almost all serving huge Corporations not the citizens. Both parties are on the same payrolls. Think about this - why did we go to Iraq? One major reason is that a lot of Companies would make Millions if we did.