A controversial internet censorship plan including in the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement is reportedly being discussed by several world leaders, leaving to a backlash on the internet and plans to put a halt to it.
The plan will reportedly be under discussion in upcoming meetings, as the leaders of 12 countries discuss the plan as part of a greater trade agreement.
Legal incentives must be provided to service providers to cooperate with deterring infringers (subpara (a)) Service providers must have a policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers (subpara (b)(vi)(A)) (i.e. service providers must implement three strikes)
Courts can order the termination of accounts, blocking websites and removing content (subpara (b)(viii)) Service providers must provide information about alleged infringers upon request of whoever sent the takedown notice (subpara (b)(xi))
Article 4.1: Making copies explicitly includes temporary storage in electronic form
Article 15.1 (a): "Significant willful copyright or related rights infringements that have no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain" should be subject to criminal proceedings (as opposed to civil)
Article 15.5 (a): Penalties can include prison sentences
Article 15.5 (b),(d)(iii): Judicial authorities can seize and destroy implements related to the infringement (i.e. your computer)
Frickfrock is quickly becoming my news channel.
Governments have been trying to get a foothold into the internet. It is has been and always will be about control.
well I suppose they have to create laws to back up what they have already been up to.
I am sure looking at my pointless emails is only the tip of the iceberg.
While this SOUNDS bad - and it honestly probably is - its always VERY DANGEROUS to judge the entire article and the entire story based on cherry picked excerpts.
This doesn't entirely sound like censorship. Based on those excerpts, it just sounds like a more refined method of enforcing copyright infringement laws; which themselves are a problem more than the sub-laws enforcing them. However, ISP level copyright protection is silly in itself. Copyright protection should be the responsibility of the holder of said copyright. Governments should merely be involved with granting copyrights, whereas ISPs should merely provide data regarding the infringement at request.
ISPs have one responsibility, and that is providing internet service and everything that goes along with ensuring that service (ie. data collection). It's unfortunate that the government is working so hard to expand their responsibilities to law enforcement.
This doesn't entirely sound like censorship. Based on those excerpts, it just sounds like a more refined method of enforcing copyright infringement laws; which themselves are a problem more than the sub-laws enforcing them. However, ISP level copyright protection is silly in itself. Copyright protection should be the responsibility of the holder of said copyright. Governments should merely be involved with granting copyrights, whereas ISPs should merely provide data regarding the infringement at request.
ISPs have one responsibility, and that is providing internet service and everything that goes along with ensuring that service (ie. data collection). It's unfortunate that the government is working so hard to expand their responsibilities to law enforcement.
i am so glad i am old enough to have experienced the internet in its hay day in the early 00...back when things were in place to make it easy to use and browse, internet speeds were picking up and you werent being watched at every step.
lol, back when P2P sharing was still the thing to do.
in EU internet is meanwhile a human right, thats why i think the removal of internet access in france was problematic, as it would not stand up to the eu court. so this wont ever fly in EU
if you look, those countries are all police states.
United States - police state
Canada - police state
New Zealand - lets see how dotcom fares
Brunei - police state
Chile - police state
Singapore - police state
Australia - police state
Peru - police state
Vietnam - police state
Malaysia - police state
Mexico - warzone
Japan - police state
i mean my uncle a catholic priest was seeing canadian police officers coming to church to listen whether priests dont preach against government enforced worldviews
i am so glad i am old enough to have experienced the internet in its hay day in the early 00...back when things were in place to make it easy to use and browse, internet speeds were picking up and you werent being watched at every step.
lol, back when P2P sharing was still the thing to do.
They have a "special relationship" because the US kept the UK from being conquered/overrun/destroyed/raped during WWII. You'd have a special relationship with someone who did that too.
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