ACTA: Will Corporate-Run US Government Destroy the Internet?

The internet is under attack by our very own US Government, working on behalf of corporate interests in the entertainment and content industries. What does this mean for you?

1. You can be banned from the internet, fined and even jailed if a copyright holder ACCUSES you of wrongdoing three times. Whether you violated their copyright or not.

2. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be forced to invest heavily in intrusive monitoring infrastructure. Guess who'll end up covering those costs?

3. Once intrusive monitoring infrastructure (such as deep packet inspection) is in place, say goodbye to your privacy! To avoid liability, ISPs will need to monitor every packet of data that is transmitted or stored on their network to make sure it doesn't contain copyrighted materials. This means they'll see your emails, your facebook messages, which sites you visit on the internet, and what you do on those sites.

4. The government rewards their pet corporations for being lazy and refusing to adapt and innovate.

I'm not condoning internet piracy. I think copyright holders have a right to use their intellectual property as they see fit. The issue here is that the content industry is using our government (and our government is merrily letting them) to push global copyright regulations that will have horribly destructive consequences - to internet users, internet service providers, and the businesses that rely on them.

Read the new leaked document here:
http://blog.die-linke.de/digitalelinke/wp-content/uploads/674b-09.pdf

Expert opinion:
Michael Geist: EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

Techdirt's Analysis

Leaked information on the secretly Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) already indicated that the guidelines are primarily aimed at forcing ISPs to become international content nannies, while taking much of what's wrong with U.S. copyright law and exporting these ideas globally.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/30/leaked-document-says-eu-fears-oba...

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Frightening to say the least.

Frightening to say the least. Orwell's 1984 inches closer in 2010. Really though, with the govt's propensity for controlling and taxing everything, I'm surprised that we don't already have little meters hooked to our computers to measure usage and get taxed accordingly.

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It amazing the way government erodes your civil libaties, quitley and blames it on something else. Today it's copyright...yesterday terrorism

I wonder what it will be tomorrow?

But it's OK its nothing important like our FREEDOM

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ACTA is not possible....Lets see torrent sites,they only go bigger and more powerful not to mention how many new torrent sites are online every month.

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I'm all for fighting piracy

I'm all for fighting piracy and regulating copyright laws, however government regulation seems to have a way of messing things up really bad. I'll be looking for natural anxiety cures pretty soon if the government implements this. Seriously though, Donnie has a good point, regulating something like this would be nearly impossible.

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The government is trying to control the internet. I think we have to draw a line hear. This is freedom of speech.
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Fighting piracy is the oft

Fighting piracy is the oft stated reason for this nonsense but that is a red herring. As demonstrated in South Korea the real aim of this exercise is to stop ISPs hosting any content (copyright or not) on pain of financial ruin thereby ensuring that all new artists will be funneled into the indentured servitude model of the old content business. acne scar treatment The upswing of this is that under the new rules artists will not need to be paid and big-content will regain its monopoly control. Artists that try and step outside this model will have their work digitally reviewed against a back catalog of millions of tracks or hours of video with near 150 year copyright for any similarities (substantial part will change to small part) and will be forced back into the model.

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The government cannot do this. The internet has become a source of a couple many things already, some even are really private stuff they keep. It has even become a source of living of others, if they will control the internet,it is as if we let them intervene with our lives. Just like me,i'm having Apple Laptops for Salenow,and i've been using the internet for almost everything in connection with it.

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The people who voted for, a president that wants to have complete control over us and nobody can see him doing it.

This has nothing to do with

This has nothing to do with Obama specifically. The ACTA was secretly holding meetings as far back as early 2008. It has to do with the fact that the entertainment industry is showing us just how greedy it really is, and simultaneously, how powerful. Many other countries are onboard with this too- though the negotiations are still underway. The recent leak, however, has shed some light on just what is in the works. Scary stuff, looks like we're all going to jail. Oh well, I'm going to stop buying music and DVDs altogether, let those bastards know that I won't feed their greed.

Seriously, there is no way

Seriously, there is no way the government could regulate this. I can't think of anyone around me that hasn't at least once in their life copied music from a friend. The government might as well start enforcing whether we have a baby girl or boy if they are going to regulate this.

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Copy right act is not properly implemented yet & most internet users are not well aware about it.If both of these points would be followed strictly,then only the problem will be solved. Anxiety remedies

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It is literally impossible for copyright to be enforced effectively on the internet. It is too expensive to prosecute someone and most of the time you don't get anything out of it even if you win -- all you can really hope for is to shut someone down. Bacterial Vaginosis

But it's so easy to start up another website, or torrent, or whatever.. that it's not worth doing anything about it.

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There are existing

There are existing technologies, such as eCX and eCP from IBM's Tivoli and from the University of Hong Kong. These are schemes for protecting intellectual property distributed to client machines, not what this crazy government has in mind. This website organic pet supplies are such a good example, contain good information to help out others. Many are currently also satisfied with the security at YouTube and similar sites, only time will tell.

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