So you thought the idea of the digital economy bill was bad... -
07-11-2010, 12:43 PM
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Secretly preparing to screw us all a lot worse then the digital economy bill would ever be able to since 2008.
Heres an extract from the link
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Australia, Canada, the European Union ( which means Europe in it's entirety ) , Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States are participating in ACTA negotiations.
The official goal of the agreement is the international enforcement of strong intellectual property rights. Some of our concerns include the vague, amorphous manner in which “counterfeit” is used in many of the public comments. These uses run the gamut from undisputedly illegal products to expressly legitimate generic products. We believe that ACTA holds the potential to restrict innovation, consumer choice and freedom on the Internet by it's many restrictions and its changes to the legal front on copyrights.
The scope of ACTA is includes counterfeit goods, generic medicines, Net censorship, irrational new downloading laws and what is termed "piracy over the Internet", Because it is in effect a treaty, ACTA would overcome many court precedents in your own country that defines consumer rights as to "fair use" and would remove any limitations on the application of intellectual property laws. This means that ACTA would overrule any laws in your own country , and deal harsher, unfair and ineffective Punishment to anyone suspected of Piracy, without a trial in court. If you are SUSPECTED, not even convicted, but SUSPECTED of listening to Songs illegally, or uploading anything illegal, you may be dealt with harshly, against the laws of your own country.
Haha... I guess they'll have to arrest ALMOST everyone in their country cause by even listening to a illegal song can get you punish then isn't almost all songs out here illegal? Even I can say that this is full of crap...
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