[Newsbot]

Title: US signs ACTA
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2011-10-05 11:00:16
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

If anyone wants a link to the text of the agreement, ask your MP why it's still classified as 'secret' and why you aren't allowed to look at an agreement that affects you.

[BartSimpson]

It's being kept secret because the fine print of the deal says that the USA will be adding a few new states north of the US border.

[DanSC]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's being kept secret because the fine print of the deal says that the USA will be adding a few new states north of the US border.

I personally have been promised a large estate on the banks of the Saskatchewan River.

[peck420]

Saskatchewan River .

I wouldn't touch it. I see what some idiots put into it at my end...and you would be down stream.

[Dragon-Dancer]

Troubling and draconian.

[Canajazz]

It's naive to think you can stop technology with laws.

[DanSC]

Canajazz Canajazz:

It's naive to think you can stop technology with laws.

They've been trying to do it with cars for years.

[DanSC]

Just FYI, I heard a radio ad saying I can earn a cash reward for reporting my company's use of pirated software. Here's the organization running the ads.

http://www.bsa.org/country.aspx?sc_lang=en

[jeff744]

$1:

Most important, countries must carry out a legal system where victims of intellectual property theft may be awarded an undefined amount of monetary damages.

In the United States, for example, the Copyright Act allows for damages of up to $150,000 per infringement. A Boston jury has dinged a college student $675,000 for pilfering 30 tracks on Kazaa, while a Minnesota jury has awarded the Recording Industry Association of America $1.5 million for the purloining of 24 songs online.

So now the RIAA can commit their highway robbery in any nation that signs.

[stokes]

Unfortunately this is a waste of time as "certain" countries use knock offs to flood the market their mass produced crap that we seem unable to stop importing because it is cheaper than the "good" stuff.

[herbie]

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

{implies everyone who dislikes this is a pirate, again}

Getting a little repetetive there, Herb.

Doesn't it bother you that your government has signed an agreement in your name, that you are not allowed to see? Does it bother you as an ISP admininstator that you might now have to keep logs of everything your users do for the next 7 years, in case the CIRA wants you to go through those logs in order to protect their flawed business model? (at no cost to them).

[Wada]

Ol' Ben Franklin just a spinnin' in his grave.

[DanSC]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Doesn't it bother you that your government has signed an agreement in your name, that you are not allowed to see?

They didn't sign it in the people's name, they signed it in Her Majesty's name.