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US signs ACTA


Business | 207103 hits | Oct 05 11:00 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:35 pm
    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.

  2. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:26 pm
    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.

  3. by avatar DanSC
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:29 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    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.

  4. by peck420
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:39 pm
    Saskatchewan River 8O .

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

  5. by avatar Dragon-Dancer
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:49 pm
    Troubling and draconian.

  6. by Canajazz
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:14 pm
    It's naive to think you can stop technology with laws.

  7. by avatar DanSC
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:17 pm
    "Canajazz" said
    It's naive to think you can stop technology with laws.

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

  8. by avatar DanSC
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:52 pm
    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

  9. by jeff744
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:01 pm
    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.

  10. by stokes
    Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:01 pm
    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.

  11. by avatar herbie
    Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:43 am

  12. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:09 pm
    "herbie" said
    {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).

  13. by avatar Wada
    Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:57 pm
    Ol' Ben Franklin just a spinnin' in his grave. :cry:

  14. by avatar DanSC
    Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:46 am
    "DrCaleb" said
    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.



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