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Now that big companies got SOPA/PIPA pushed back in the USA, and ACTA indefinitely delayed in Europe, they're trying something different: The Trans-Pacific Partnership. Under the guise of a 'Free Trade Agreement', all that we've been able to learn thus far has been through leaks only.
TYT: TTP - Worse than ACTA?
Another ironic but still sad part here? That it's labelled as something 'free trade', when it just adds more regulation to the internet, and in other ways prevents customers' options when it comes to certain products. Further, god forbid you should be opposed to something that's free trade, what are you? Some kind of dirty anti-capitalist?
LEAKED! TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement - Boing Boing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilities-isps-and-put-your-rights-risk
The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free | Dean Baker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
TYT: TTP - Worse than ACTA?
Basically, you get your internet killed after three allegations of copyright infringment. This allegation does not need to be proven true. ISPs become directly responsible for monitoring and filtering what you view and do online. ISPs must block websites that in any way relate to copyright infringement (bye-bye YouTube, Google, etc). Upon a single allegation of copyright infringement, ISPs must provide the IP holders with your identity.
- Three-strikes policies and laws that require Internet intermediaries to terminate their users’ Internet access on repeat allegations of copyright infringement .
- Requirements for Internet intermediaries to filter all Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material.
- ISP obligations to block access to websites that allegedly infringe or facilitate copyright infringement.
- Efforts to force intermediaries to disclose the identities of their customers to IP rightsholders on an allegation of copyright infringement.
- ISPs are incentivised to do all of the above, essentially being paid to become Copyright Cops.
Another ironic but still sad part here? That it's labelled as something 'free trade', when it just adds more regulation to the internet, and in other ways prevents customers' options when it comes to certain products. Further, god forbid you should be opposed to something that's free trade, what are you? Some kind of dirty anti-capitalist?
LEAKED! TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement - Boing Boing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilities-isps-and-put-your-rights-risk
The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free | Dean Baker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk