| reply to PapaMidnight
Re: WTF? said by PapaMidnight:• 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 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)
You've gotta be sh**in me... Nope. Read what has been leaked thus far about ACTA (www.michaelgeist.ca is a very good place to start) and you'll see that it's all pretty much as you have feared, and worse.
Cross a border with an iPod that has songs on it that aren't DRM'd and you could be looking at hard time in a Turkish prison, courtesy of Disney, Sony, Warner, et. al., and your friendly local Senator/Congressman's vote. |
