Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P? 387
miowpurr writes to tell us that a draft of the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has been posted on Wikileaks. Among others, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has weighed in on the possible ramifications of this treaty. "Among other things, ACTA will outlaw P2P (even when used to share works that are legally available, like my books), and crack down on things like region-free DVD players. All of this is taking place out of the public eye, presumably with the intention of presenting it as a fait accompli just as the ink is drying on the treaty."
Re:Guess they don't play WoW... (Score:5, Funny)
Canada (Score:4, Funny)
I swear to God, if Harper signs this, I am going to skull fuck him.
Bring it on CESIS, I'm ready and waiting!
Wow, this makes great sense. (Score:5, Funny)
"Exactly. We make legally trading content illegal, then we'll catch those copyright infringers."
"But if you outlaw legal file-sharing you set a dangerous precendent and risk a horrific backlash from the populous."
"Look, you want this kickback or not?"
Re:Just as with anything... (Score:1, Funny)
Think about it.. You're taking money out of the hands of our good old American corporate friends. Yes, they're our friends! They provide us with quality entertainment. And did I mention it's free? Well not free free, but free as in free speech.
When you download music, movies, and software illegally you're going against free speech and everything that makes America great! And you're helping the terrorist by wearing away our perfect capitalistic system. Basically every download is just one step more towards the end of western civilization. Is that what you really want?? You terrorist downloaders you!
From the Wikileaks article (Score:3, Funny)
So that's still OK because it's not a copyright violation.
Re:Cory Who? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Canada (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So is a conversation illegal p2p (Score:2, Funny)
'Wazzup?' 'Dunno.'
Whereas absolutely illegal would be: 'Help. Help. The building is on fire.' Not only does that convey data, it is also spreading despondency and alarm. However, it could become legal to phone movie the fire, transmit it to a TV studio, and once they have the royalties sorted out, they alert the authorities who in turn ring the fire department. (On a B2B or blob to blob basis. Blobs have area and are not points. Blobs are not lumps of data. Blobs have CEOs running them. Blobs are good. Points are bad....)
Re:Typical (Score:5, Funny)
Can you say 'one world government by proxy' ?
No. Proxies are now outlawed too.
Re:p2p == !DNS (Score:3, Funny)
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
OH GOD THEY'RE COMING TO GET ME!
Re:Guess they don't play WoW... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:When I was in school (Score:5, Funny)
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Gotta say it... (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously....the govt obviously has no ear nor idea of representing the population any longer.
I guess everybody, needs to incorporate themselves, and band together to lobby to try to get some individual rights again....
Apparently, the individual citizen doesn't matter as much as the corps...so, lets lawyer up and suit up in corporations...to fight on more even ground? Heck why not....you can pay less taxes that way at the very least....
Re:Guess they don't play WoW... (Score:2, Funny)
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