RsLoG Wrote:Wow, this is some sad, shocking, and vile news. Recent leaked information points the Canadian Conservative Government a participating member in international talks (aka G8 neocon agenda meetings) to develop a new international anti-piracy agreement under the guise of an anti-counterfeiting shroud. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would see Canada join the U.S. and the European Union in a coalition against copyright infringement. The leaked anti-counterfeiting strategy purportedly originated from the U.S. government. The talks, taken behind closed doors so that regular people don’t get to know about until it’s too late, will grant almost unlimited powers for the police and government to monitor any and all activities of Canadian file-sharers.

The legislation will encourage ISPs to monitor the online activities of their customers, and report any and all activity that may infringe copyright law. The agreement covers the copying of information or ideas in a wide variety of contexts. For example page three, paragraph one is a “Pirate Bay killer” clause designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet. Border guards and other public security personnel could become copyright police under the deal. They would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellphones for content that “infringes” on copyright laws, such as ripped-off CDs and movies. The guards would determine what infringes copyright. The agreement says any copied content would be open for scrutiny — even if it was copied legally. This new agreement goes way beyond the bound of reasonable, it’s Orwellian, unethical, police-state and Nazi-ideologist. I will do everything in my power to educate the public about this horrible modern atrocity that could come to realization if wee do not take a stand immediately. This effects everyone, not just Canadians, this agreement is international covering Japan, Switzerland and the European Commision. Sources 1, 2, 3, 4.

Wow, seems like everybodys cracking down on piracy theses days. sad. its not like having napster anymore

Discuss

What I'm most interested in is how they're going to encourage ISPs to monitor data.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:What I'm most interested in is how they're going to encourage ISPs to monitor data.

Through force.

To not do so would make them accomplices to crime.

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Quote:This new agreement goes way beyond the bound of reasonable, it’s Orwellian, unethical, police-state and Nazi-ideologist. I will do everything in my power to educate the public about this horrible modern atrocity that could come to realization if wee do not take a stand immediately.

this is kinda crazy
but then such a law would be highly unpopular and would result in the governments facing political trouble
hope it will be stopped though

Don't think that it will get stopped as well as I don't think it will work..

im just wondering how the hell they will monitor a laptop or an ipod

i can just leech wifi from a laptop

and if i had an ipod i can acess it through linux

Assassinator Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:What I'm most interested in is how they're going to encourage ISPs to monitor data.

Through force.

To not do so would make them accomplices to crime.

In such a competitive market, the cost of such monitoring will, assuming everyone does comply, simply cause prices to skyrocket.
Which is why I have a sort of belief that some providers may try to find ways to get around it...  It's also quite difficult to control/enforce these things too, especially for smaller providers.

(This post was last modified: 29/05/2008 12:24 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)