ACTA : why the secrecy ?

[Aloysius]

So it's a kind of a world digital millenium act, or an HADOPI law, negociated between various States. And it's being made in secret, under the close supervision of various private groups interests. As far as I know, the only democratic resistance to this new attack against internet and internet user freedom and privacy is in the European Parliament.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4848/125/

I wondered what the various posters on this forum thought about this... I can see both our right wing and left wing members being hostile to this kind of covert attempt by the various States of the world to establish control and monitoring of the net at the behest of some outdated industry.

[Dacke]

From where I'm sitting, the whole ACTA thing smells like week-old fish. The name refers to "counterfeiting", but there seems to be plenty of copyright stuff in there too, and there seems to be a big portion of "lock-in" of worst-practices like notice & takedown, outlawing DRM-bypassing, and such. And doing it in secret just makes it stink even worse.

At least the EU Parliament has shown some balls on the issue, demanding that the process becomes transparent or they'll sink it. At least some good has come of the Lisbon treaty.

[Aloysius]

http://www.laquadrature.net/files/201001_acta.pdf

The USA and Japan want to create a comity that would monitor ACTA implementation in the world, and be able to modify the treaty. Basically, it would be a supranational legislative power, but one that would escape any kind of democratic control.

If this shit hit the fan, it will be remembered as the first step in the establishment of a the Corporations World Dictatorship.

Where are the wingnuts when you need them ? That's far more serious than the death panels of the Obamacare... Maybe they are not reacting because the puppet masters who inspire them are on the other side of the "conspiration", this time :D

[DarwinOfMind]

That's exactly why, these people complaining about Obamacare where'd they get that, FoxNews of course, you think Fox News cares about internet freedom, Rubert Murdoc is suing google for gods sake.

First step to Corporate Dictatorship? we're already they're.