Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Obama is Hitler after all?

Secret copyright treaty leaks.
This Blog is Criminal

 Via Boing Boing - If this is true, Obaa has just shut down the internet as we know it.


The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:
  • * 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)
 UPDATES: 
This whole thing is  bizarre enough, and Huff Post just made it more so by claiming " The Administration is bowing to demands from a handful of corporations to keep the public in the dark."  That's right.  The Chamber of Commerce is making Obama do it.

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction? - Wired
Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent these and related concerns are merited," the groups said in a letter (.pdf) to trade representatives from the participating nations.

9 comments:

Rodger the Real King of France said...

I've been otherwise engaged today; Ro just called to tell me to read the comment on the last post. This can't be real? No even this prick would be so bold, would he? So far haven't found a mention of it, let alone verification. I'm sure that will change.

Anonymous said...

DAILY SWARM
http://thedailyswarm.com/headlines/leaked-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-threatens-destroy-internet-we-know-it-buh-bye-youtube-flickr-blogger-et-al/

Anonymous said...

Some more commentary from Wired Magazine. Being in that publication, methinks it's for real, and I wouildn't put anything past our Megalomaniac Man-child in Chief and his thugocracy to gain control of anything and everything they can. Uhbama doesn't give a shit about stolen profits; he wants to restrict the things that are hindering his conquest; e.g., internet communications.
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Anonymous said...

Sorry, missed the link:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/international-i/
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Anonymous said...

I really am beginning to feel like I am in a dream.

THor~
III

Anonymous said...

It all fits into the 'plan'...

Fall of the Republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

daniel

Gayle Miller said...

All treaties into which the United States of America wishes to enter must be approved by a vote of the U.S. Congress. Zippy cannot just arbitrarily do this on his own! He claims to be a constitutional lawyer (I somehow doubt the claim) but surely a near-idiot would know better than this crap, wouldn't he?

Anonymous said...

He knows, Gayle, he just doesn't give a shit. "Dictator" means never having to say you're sorry.

H

JMcD said...

James Bond (Sir Hillary Bray)
Ernst Stavro Obama (Blohard)

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