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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 / 8:47 pm
ACTA: A Government-Approved International Conspiracy
SOPA and PIPA were merely pawns. ACTA is their King AND Queen.
by Tony Chavira
Tags: SOPA/PIPA | ACTA | conspiracy
So here's the timeline:
PIPA was introduced in the Senate on May 12, 2011.
SOPA was introduced in the house on October 26, 2011.
After plenty of protesting, they were both shut down in January 2012.
The discussion paper that would eventually become ACTA spilt onto Wikileaks in May 2008. It was organized as a draft trade agreement that would set up an international, non-governmental agency that would force ISPs to provide information about subscribers who are (or have been) suspects of copyright infringement. ACTA requires every country that signs it to illegalize “widespread distribution [of anything] for infringing purposes,” criminalizes the process of circumventing DRM, and abide by a system for how copyright holders should receive damages.
In effect, the ACTA Oversight Council (as they call themselves) would be required to shut down anything on the internet that violates anything with a copyright.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 / 2:15 pm
AAARHR! Attorney/Bassist Joe Escalante Explains the Big Media Lawyers Are the Real Pirates
Perhaps you didn’t know nor care too much about SOPA/PIPA. But you ought to.
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Tags: SOPA/PIPA | online piracy | Joe Escalante
Perhaps, like me, you didn’t know nor care too much about SOPA/PIPA (Stop the Online Piracy Act, and the other one), but believed your friends on the left when they hyperventilated that it would be the end of the Internet, and thus the world. (And like me you noticed their keening wails when every one of the Republican candidates stood onstage in South Carolina and was better on the issue than our own beloved President O). But believing them wasn’t the same thing as caring.
Leave it to Joe Escalante, who managed to make a lunchtime radio show about copyright and intellectual property law fascinating, to explain the problem both concisely and harrowingly!
