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   <title>Who is Obama working for ?!! : Secret copyright treaty leaks....</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=295">Hermes</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 2291<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Nov&nbsp;07&nbsp;2009 at 3:48pm<br /><br /><H1>Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.</H1><FONT =Arial12 color=black face=Arial><B>Cory Doctorow</B><BR><img src="http://www.in&#102;ormati&#111;nliberati&#111;n.com/space.gif" vspace="2" border="0" /><BR>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:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE>* 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.<BR><BR>* 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.<BR><BR>* 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.<BR><BR>* 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)</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>]]>
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