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TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked.
- piffey 14y agoThey'll never give up. Better patch the meatspace bug and write a software workaround.
- Sniffnoy 14y agoPlease link directly to the article, rather than to boingboing's link to the article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilities-isps-and-put-your-rights-risk https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilitie...
- vog 14y agoThis has been done, but nobody seems to care about that HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434154 Maybe the title was badly chosen.
- tomjen3 14y agoHow is behind these things? It seems that they won't stop until they are dead -- any hope that they are getting old or have other illnesses?
- beedogs 14y agoThis kind of shit is the reason I pirate all major-label and big studio content I want. I refuse to help feed their legal machine. I still pay for third-party, independent content. Anything else is fair game. I consider this approach to be far superior from a moral standpoint. Everyone really ought to be doing the same. Stop feeding the MPAA/RIAA.
- AlisdairO 14y ago...why not just refuse to watch their stuff?
- mmariani 14y agoThat works incredibly well too. With the added bonus of having time to spare to do more rewarding things.
- beedogs 14y agothis works well for the most part.
- Karunamon 14y agoWhat's the difference? Either way, you're not giving them money.
- majormajor 14y agoBecause if you think it has enough value for you to watch it, but refuse to pay for it, you're not really protesting anything. You're just being a jerk. It isn't taking a principled stand to do something which helps your own wallet at the expense of the people making the content you watch. For clarification, since I seem to have worded that unclearly: if your protest is indistinguishable from simply being greedy, don't be surprised if your message gets lost. If you think it's worth protesting, go all the way. Otherwise how am I supposed to tell that you really think your reason to protest them outweighs—even to you—your reason to watch the stuff they create?
- Canada 14y agoI have the right to watch anything I want to because I need to understand my own society. And I can't have my money going to these organizations that are hostile to my interests. The best solution is for these media companies to simply cease operations. The world will be no worse off if they just stop producing digital entertainment, a huge chunk of which is just propaganda anyway.
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- cabalamat 14y agoI've come to the same conclusions. I: - never buy anything from a MAFIAA-affiliated company. If in doubt, I don't buy it. - vote for the Pirate party at every occasion. - encourage all my friends to do the same.
- holloway 14y agoThe MPAA/RIAA donate to politicians who make their views the foreign policy of the US. These politicians include Lamar Smith and former-politicians like Chris Dodd but there are dozens more.
- norswap 14y ago> Requirements for Internet intermediaries to filter all Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material. Each time I read something like that, I wonder if they really realize the cost needed to achieve efficient filtering.
- bad_user 14y agoThey aren't interested in efficient filtering. Laws such as these are only selectively applied and are meant to give them leverage in negotiations and take-down requests ... after a treaty such as this one gets implemented, a content distributer will not think twice about complying with a DMCA takedown request. And such services will end up paying licensing fees even if all the hosted content is legit, simply because of the risk associated.
- 001sky 14y agoLaws such as these are only selectively applied Laws architected not be obeyed but to abused are totally unacceptable.
- bad_user 14y agoWell, of course. But we end up with such laws because the politicians don't have the technical knowhow do understand the full implications and the lobbyists don't really care as long as it's in their advantage.
- 001sky 14y agoThis has the whiff of a law architected by the lobbyists. The politicians, as you put it, "don't really care as long as it's in their advantage." The pre-meditation is particularly worrisome.
- holloway 14y agoBy increasing ISP liability they're trying to make the business of an ISP inherently risky and unprofitable unless they purchase content licenses. So it's effectively a transfer of wealth from anyone who handles online content to the MPAA/RIAA.
- lancewiggs 14y agoThe linked leaked text seems to be from February 2011. Is this the current text I wonder?
- Monotoko 14y agoThis one has been moving since 2005, slowly but steadily. Oddly the US isn't an original signatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...