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  • maxama10
    Take off every zig!
    • Sep 2004
    • 1497
    #1

    ACTA : Anti-Counterfitting Trade Agreement

    Now this is all one big copy and paste as I have nothing 'Original' to add to this

    http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/acta/ for useful links.

    3. Trade officials, copyright claimants.

    4. Call Office of the United States Trade Representative, European Commission, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and other trade officials including the corresponding offices in Canada, Japan, and Switzerland.

    5. Not clear; suspect that one of the parties to the agreement may have had an interest in releasing details to the public.
    6. Trade representatives intend to formalize the agreement at the G-8 summit in July 2008.



    Know something about this material? Tell the world.
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    Retrieved from "https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_%282 007%29"
    - http://wikileaks.org/wiki/G-8_pluril...scussion_paper

    - http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/acta#comments

    Details of the proposed multicountry accord are sketchy at best. Speculation is running rampant that, if ratified, the agreement might criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers' communications.
    - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...is-on-for.html


    So what does this all mean for us? More regulation and more DRM. Just thought you should all know.
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    • Hilltop Customs
      Registered User
      • Aug 2007
      • 1260
      #2
      first thought: wow that is not much money being donated when you consider the possible outcome and the revenue it can generate

      second thought: IP protection is needed, but over protection it slows innovation.....key is finding a balance. A single source IP database would be extremely beneficial in research.

      Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the article, it sounds like a very few countries with massive amounts of registered IP are trying to apply their registered IP worldwide. In other words, a few corporations(ones funding this) are trying to extend the enforceable reach of their patents/registered IP.

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        • maxama10
          Take off every zig!
          • Sep 2004
          • 1497
          #3
          Originally posted by Hilltop Customs
          first thought: wow that is not much money being donated when you consider the possible outcome and the revenue it can generate

          second thought: IP protection is needed, but over protection it slows innovation.....key is finding a balance. A single source IP database would be extremely beneficial in research.

          Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the article, it sounds like a very few countries with massive amounts of registered IP are trying to apply their registered IP worldwide. In other words, a few corporations(ones funding this) are trying to extend the enforceable reach of their patents/registered IP.

          I think so yeah. I guess where I disagree with them is on what they should be able to enforce. Region code dvd players for example. DRM is crap and I absolutely hate it. If I buy DVD's I should be able to play them, anywhere. Period. Like when I took my movies to Germany and they wouldn't play... and if I buy music I should be able to back it up on my computer. Or vice versa...

          although I will admit I'm a pirate.


          I just can't agree with their tactics though. anyhow I didn't really come on here to argue one way or another but just to spread the word about this.

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            • Hilltop Customs
              Registered User
              • Aug 2007
              • 1260
              #4
              argh matie I's a pirate too

              Ive never downloaded anything illegal, I'm literally a pirate sailing the highseas posting on paintball gun forums through a satellite based ISP.

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                • maxama10
                  Take off every zig!
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 1497
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Hilltop Customs
                  argh matie I's a pirate too

                  Ive never downloaded anything illegal, I'm literally a pirate sailing the highseas posting on paintball gun forums through a satellite based ISP.

                  Me too actually, hughes net.

                  Edit: argh
                  Last edited by maxama10; 09-18-2008, 11:22 PM. Reason: to add pirate jargon

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                    • snoopay700
                      Serious About Men

                      • Jan 2006
                      • 3071
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Hilltop Customs
                      argh matie I's a pirate too

                      Ive never downloaded anything illegal, I'm literally a pirate sailing the highseas posting on paintball gun forums through a satellite based ISP.
                      Ya harr!!! I be postin from the net, the fishin net, i got both of ye beat.
                      Il n'y a point de sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit.

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                        • Avianrave
                          Registered User
                          • Jun 2008
                          • 146
                          #7
                          Originally posted by snoopay700
                          Ya harr!!! I be postin from the net, the fishin net, i got both of ye beat.

                          wtf kind of pirate fishes?

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                            • Hilltop Customs
                              Registered User
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 1260
                              #8
                              blahr me blunders me catch from uter sailors

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