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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Tech companies fear ACTA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Tue Apr 20 02:30:59 2010
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Tech companies fear ACTA
( http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg03389.html )
http://bit.ly/c1c9wV (AP)
If the ACTA is enacted including the sorts of draconian provisions
that we've seen in the leaked drafts up to now, I predict that the
result will be an explosion of online civil disobedience that will
make current piracy problems look like a drop in the bucket.
Internet "three strikes" provisions will be unworkable and effectively
unenforceable -- courts in many countries are likely to insist that
access to the Internet is now a necessary facet of life. Meanwhile,
serious pirates will be driven ever more deeply underground where
their activities will continue but will be increasingly opaque to
tracking mechanisms.
There is a tangible sense that the entertainment industry (and as I've
noted in the past, I have numerous friends in the film and music
industries here in L.A., so I have considerable sympathy for their
concerns) is attempting to warp the entire Internet in a desperate
effort to hold back technological change.
My posting "Copyright: Dead Man Walking" ( http://bit.ly/drbTy ) from
around a year ago discusses related issues in more detail.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition
for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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