Thursday, November 5, 2009

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:

* * 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 ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel. FULL STORY

0 comments:

Post a Comment

બ્લોગ વિશે કે પોસ્ટ વિશે આપના સર્વ પ્રકારના
પ્રતિભાવો અને સહકાર સદા આવકાર્ય છે.
આશા છે આપની આ બ્લોગની મુલાકાત આનંદદાયક રહેશે.

 

Site Info

free counters

Followers

Vishal Mistry Copyright © 2009 Community is Designed by Bie Blogger Template