Anti-counterfit agreement turns your ISP into copyright cops


A lousy idea negotiated in secret

Could this really be another attempt to overwrite U.S. law by treaty? It sure looks like it. Emphasis added.

Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This week’s closed negotiations will focus on “enforcement in the digital environment.” Negotiators will be discussing the Internet provisions drafted by the US government. No text has been officially released but as Professor Michael Geist and IDG are reporting, leaks have surfaced. The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations. The Internet provisions have nothing to do with addressing counterfeit products, but are all about imposing a set of copyright industry demands on the global Internet, including obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes Internet disconnection policies, and a global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws.

And of course, it would be managed outside U.S. jurisdiction.

The internet is the last, best hope for freedom. If we can just keep the politicos and bureaucrats away from it.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - November 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM  Tag


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