This is NOT the first time that we hear about this either.
Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown. ISP’s must watching spy on subscribers or face being sued by content owners.
The US, Europe and other countries including New Zealand are secretly drawing up rules designed to crack down on copyright abuse on the internet, in part by making ISPs liable for illegal content, according to a copy of part of the confidential draft agreement that was seen by the IDG News Service.
It is the latest in a series of leaks from the anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) talks that have been going on for the past two years. Other leaks over the past three months have consisted of confidential internal memos about the negotiations between European lawmakers.
Hmmm. How much time is left before this takes place? Comments at Boing Boing are very telling.
February 22, 2010 at 9:26 am
Cracking down on copyrighted content is kind of like the war on drugs. The only thing that ever results from it is higher prices for things that wind up destroying people from the inside…
Personally, I much prefer to know what you and uppity and folks like that thinking rather than these sugar coated power bars for the brain that you find in the MSM – first you get a big initial rise out of it, and then you feel all used and dirty – mindless, to say a word…
Yes, please – by all means, ban the use of copyrighted material by the rest of us. Make us stop observing a dying media that is nothing less than modern day drug dealers…
February 22, 2010 at 9:50 am
Valid point.
“Accused == Guilty
The biggest problem with cutting off people’s Internet connections based on copyright infringement is that the punishment is handed out before a conviction is made. If we’re going to move to a system whereby simply accusing someone of copyright infringement is enough to kick their entire household off of the Internet then there better damn well be liability on the part of the accusers for lost wages, time, pain & suffering, etc.”
February 22, 2010 at 11:13 am
Just think.
They’ll try to stop this, but allow all the vote stealing and primary stealing they can do…….
February 22, 2010 at 11:27 am
Absolutely.
February 22, 2010 at 9:53 am
This is no different than burning down the library at Alexandria. Do they truly believe that they can stop us from knowing what they are up to?
February 22, 2010 at 10:10 am
It’s a brand new world, idn’t it…
Little did we realize at the time when the Internet was born that it would come to this…
There will be other ways to communicate that will trump the current form. You watch…
February 22, 2010 at 10:54 am
Where there is a will, there will be a way!
February 22, 2010 at 11:12 am
Why NNIC, if they pass that then only the Lamestream media will be able to continue stealing and plagiarizing copyrighted material…
RE: “Yes, please – by all means, ban the use of copyrighted material by the rest of us. Make us stop observing a dying media that is nothing less than modern day drug dealers”
February 22, 2010 at 11:28 am
Great point Buttered. Journalism is dead, what will they print?
February 22, 2010 at 12:18 pm
More importantly, who will they steal from when they can’t from Internet bloggers any longer because of the said clamp down on bloggers?
February 22, 2010 at 12:32 pm
That’s the beef Buttered. Who will they steal from?