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National security or a war on sharing?

Will breach of copyright move from civil to criminal matter?

         

coopster

5:52 pm on Mar 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

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From Russia Today [russiatoday.com] ...


Almost everyone today owns a music player and a laptop. But what if the Government decided to allow itself to access these personal devices for no specific reason whatsoever?

In extreme secrecy from the public, the Obama administration is hammering out an international copyright treaty with several other countries and the European Union.

Under the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), governments will get sweeping new powers to search and seize material thought to be in breach of copyright.

purplecape

2:37 pm on Apr 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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April fool?

Syzygy

4:32 pm on Apr 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Interesting, very interesting.

I'd not heard of the ACTA before and have been doing a little digging around. I hope no one minds if I post this link, which provides a better overview of the Act than I could possibly manage and gives a number of other related resources:

[ipjustice.org...]

Syzygy

coopster

7:17 pm on Apr 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

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No, it's no April Fool's joke. It's been brewing for some time now. It's just starting to snowball as an attention-grabber, that's all. Likely because of the *secrecy* factor. Here are some comments at the EC Trade Issues from Brussels in Oct 2007:
[ec.europa.eu...]