***INTERNET = SERIOUS BUSINESS*** READ NOW! Patriot Act for Internet (WTF)

[CaNANDian]

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:

* * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)

Sources:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11...e-strikes-and-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-..._b_345000.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03...right-tre.html

[WhoIsYou]

It's all the United States' fault. :P

[xWhite_Shadowx]

I blame Canada.

[nx.dcr]

i dont get it.

[xWhite_Shadowx]

i dont get it.

Buncha bullshit that's been talked about, the crippling of the internet. Nothing's gonna happen.

[solowestside]

i hate that nigger president.....he will get shot i know he will

[__STRELOK__]

Blame canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSYipouABI

[_PRaLiNeS_]

i have too much to say about this, and don't feel like talking about it because its on the internet. basically, will not happen.

[kroxier]

This wont happen. It's impossible. That would be likened to trying to physically, literally, put a leash on the planet earth. Sure I wouldn't put it past the government to try it, but it would fail.

[RPGbig]

you cant stop the internet.
besides the goverment is too poor atm to do this