SECRET draft copyright treaty LEAKED: Meet the Trans-Pacific Partnership The text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) isn't as bad as we thought. It's worse. A draft, published by Wikileaks, offers a patent-and-copyright wish list that would see the infamous DMCA automatic take-downs spread throughout the Pacific, plants and animals become patentable with few restrictions, …
Wow.
I just peeled off a three page rant.
And then decided not to post it -- a lot of it was almost incoherent.
Its bad enough that the objectives in here feed only CORPORATE interests, but that the effort was done entirely or at least attempted entirely in secret turns my stomach.
Government of the people by the corporates for the corporates.
This makes it clear how wrong things really are in the world today.
10 minutes of relevant listening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zp9uX9B6I
(yeah its youtube, you don't have to comment ya know)
In America, our government tried to hide the spying that it is doing on American citizens from the Citizens. Snowden exposed this. However the governments response was go proceed with spying on every citizen with full speed ahead. Now the US government is trying to hide this from the American people. When are the people in the US going to realize that there is a hot war going on between them and the US government benefiting major corporations?
Seems one thing's been left out of this piece of toilet paper: a copyright trade embargo for any country that signs the treaty but does not ratify it. This would put pressure on the various signatory governments to ratify it since this would be enforceable by the ones that DO ratify it, barring the non-ratifiers from obtaining any copyrighted content from ratifying countries.
Sort of like how American states set a drinking age of 21 because they don't want to lose federal transportation support.
George Orwell warned us about this in his iconic work "1984".
As it stands, every time I play a DVD at the moment if it is (1) damaged and my player has kludged "read no matter what" firmware and HW mod, (2) purchased from any second hand shop, (3) copied, format shifted, or otherwise transferred through an "unauthorized" device such as through a Macrovision filter so it will play on my antique circa 1997 TV, I'm breaking the law.
Bluray is even worse, you have to be connected to the Internet just to play a disk due to the requirement for firmware upgrades and woe betide you if you happen to still have dialup or 3G dongle because it will NOT work.
At this point the gloves are off, Its time the MPAA and M*ns*n*o had a wake-up call.
We the people DEMAND action, this bill has to die before we end up enslaved.
AC but I am human and have ethics.
See
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-trade-deal-full-frontal-assault-on-democracy
The worrying feature of this treaty (discussed in the link) is that it gives American corporations the ability to sue democratic countries for, for example, not allowing their mining exploits on environmental grounds.
It is a race to the bottom.
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