[ffejnosliw]

I'll just let you read the keypoints:

Originally Posted by BoingBoing.net

• 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)

Read more:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03...right-tre.html

[fatgav]

That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules...

Surely the US would never expect the rest of the world to do something just because that's the way it's done in the United Sta-
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[merlin379]

Originally Posted by fatgav

Surely the US would never expect the rest of the world to do something just because that's the way it's done in the United Sta-
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oh

EU parlament ftw

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers...lation-091105/

[zsyrinx]

That's starting to sound like Canadian Bill C-61...

[Frankie V]

It’s getting to the point that just breathing will become a copyright violation.

The problem with new laws is they only catch those who are generally not familiar with the changes in the first place. So once again the innocent becomes the victims of corporate greed in their attempt to turn civil law into a criminal act.

After the latest rounds, of shale we say, corrections to the US copyright act, and based on the wording of what I like to call the Mickey Mouse amendment, it is now possible for a company or corporation to own intellectual property with out the clause that the ideas and idles of the material will one day be returned to the public domain.

Funny as it is this is becoming the new reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OGGt...eature=related

Not Work Safe

[lowmankind]

... the word "McCarthyism" springs immediately to mind....l......

[Problem]

What next? Are they going to start copyrighting concepts and vague ideas? That would make most of us free thinkers into criminals and brings another Orwellian term to mind that of Thought Crime.

Problem

[hostod]

One more of a hundred thousand million reasons why I can't afford to give a crap anymore. I'd probably cry if I spend to much time thinking about everything that's wrong with this world. Thank god for my wacky tobaccy

Have you guys ever thought about how many laws you break EVERY day? I feel like everything I do is illegal.

[knirb01]

Originally Posted by Frankie V

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The problem with new laws is they only catch those who are generally not familiar with the changes in the first place. So once again the innocent becomes the victims of corporate greed in their attempt to turn civil law into a criminal act.

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That's a very good point Frankie. It's like hacking, the ones who do it right never get caught. It's a little ironic.

[mistermikster]

Originally Posted by merlin379

EU parlament ftw

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers...lation-091105/

After last election, in it's current composition, I actually see it adopting U.S. style notice and takedown rules than before...