European Union Expected to Kill ACTA as US Celebrates Independence Day

[Illiterati]

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/european-parliament-vote-kill-acta-344520

International intellectual property treaty supported by all major Hollywood studios was intended to combat international piracy.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Hundreds of thousands of European citizens have taken to the streets in anti-ACTA protests and millions more have signed petitions calling for their representatives to reject the treaty.

See, we only get this kind of passionate display of descent when it comes to abortion or gay marriage or a black president but we happily take it right up the ass with things like the Patriot Act and ACTA. What an ass-backwards country we've become.

 

[Illiterati]

A question here, though. Would these same protestors demand the right for people to pirate THEIR intellectual property?

I'm not supporting or protesting the treaty here, just asking what I think is a logical question.

Generally, it seems that it's free pie for everyone unless it's the baker who is affected.

 

[Overmind One]

A question here, though. Would these same protestors demand the right for people to pirate THEIR intellectual property?

I'm not supporting or protesting the treaty here, just asking what I think is a logical question.

Generally, it seems that it's free pie for everyone unless it's the baker who is affected.

I dunno...it seems like Karma in play here. I talk to actors and actresses who are no longer working, and I listen to the complaints about being "raped" by the production companies and studios. Artists are frequently left in the cold whilst the studios steal their creative work. How many studio executives can act or make music? Nuff said. If they want to protect their intellectual property, they need to take a different route. Geo-locking is just part of it. The treaty had doo many draconian elements in it.

https://www.eff.org/issues/acta

EXCERPT:

"While little information has been made available by the governments negotiating ACTA a document recently leaked to the public entitled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement" from an unknown source gives an indication of what content industry rightsholder groups appear to be asking for – including new legal regimes to "encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders in the removal of infringing material" criminal measures and increased border search powers. The Discussion Paper leaves open how Internet Service Providers should be encouraged to identify and remove allegedly infringing material from the Internet. However the same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens' Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the "Three Strikes" /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers. While mandating copyright filtering by ISPs will not be technologically effective because it can be defeated by use of encryption efforts to introduce network level filtering will likely involve deep packet inspection of citizens' Internet communications. This raises considerable concerns for citizens' civil liberties and privacy rights and the future of Internet innovation."

 

[Rac80]

A question here, though. Would these same protestors demand the right for people to pirate THEIR intellectual property?

I'm not supporting or protesting the treaty here, just asking what I think is a logical question.

Generally, it seems that it's free pie for everyone unless it's the baker who is affected.

that is an interesting perspective, makes me think......