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Posted 2009-November-05, 17:17

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/11/anti-co...comment-page-1/
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/35311...internet-piracy
http://www.michaelge.../view/4510/125/[/url]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/t...i_b_343488.html

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* * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
** That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
** * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
** * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)

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Posted 2009-November-06, 02:36

Luke, could you repost the links? Links 1, 2, and 4 don't work because of the "..." elisions.

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Posted 2009-November-06, 05:05

barmar, on Nov 6 2009, 03:36 AM, said:

Luke, could you repost the links? Links 1, 2, and 4 don't work because of the "..." elisions.

sorry bout that, try now
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