Youtube, online movies, music, torrents will be outlawed. Searches for illegal electronic material, no warrent
This post was written by admin on December 20, 2008
Posted Under: Current Events
Posted Under: Current Events
Annabelle McKinley asked:
Being negotiated by the United States, the European Commission, and many other civilized countries. If passed in July at the 34th G8 summit, you could be randomly searched without a warrant for illegal files; mp3s, movies, images, whatever it is, wherever it is, including your mp3 player, laptop, or phone. Since it is an sole executive agreement, it is not subject to judicial or legislative approval initially, and will remain in force as long as the judiciary or legislature doesn’t make laws specifically prohibiting the agreement. Proxies (anonymizers) will no longer be allowed. All online privacy tools will be taken away. There will be a crackdown on copyrighted material, and the penalties will be great. A great many torrents will be illegal. There will apparently be a database detailing internet users’ browsing habits, subjecting them to electronic searches at airports, borders, or anytime they feel like it.
Being negotiated by the United States, the European Commission, and many other civilized countries. If passed in July at the 34th G8 summit, you could be randomly searched without a warrant for illegal files; mp3s, movies, images, whatever it is, wherever it is, including your mp3 player, laptop, or phone. Since it is an sole executive agreement, it is not subject to judicial or legislative approval initially, and will remain in force as long as the judiciary or legislature doesn’t make laws specifically prohibiting the agreement. Proxies (anonymizers) will no longer be allowed. All online privacy tools will be taken away. There will be a crackdown on copyrighted material, and the penalties will be great. A great many torrents will be illegal. There will apparently be a database detailing internet users’ browsing habits, subjecting them to electronic searches at airports, borders, or anytime they feel like it.
Be aware of this.
It will take effect before the end of 2008. A broad international organization will be created to manage the treaty and enforce its rules. This is being done mainly because of campaign contributions by the music and entertainment industries to politicians. There isn’t much hope of it not passing; the Office of the United States Trade Representative is one of the main proponents of it, and they get to choose whether to approve it or not.
This isn’t good. Check out Wikipedia’s article on it. EFF lets you email representitives and senators directly.
This will be the end of the internet and of online freedom as we know it.
Other thoughts?
Reader Comments
well i’m fucked
it seams like it would still be too hard to track i mean everyone downloads music and stuff illegally and they can’t take us all
and if this isn’t the end of the internet net neutrality will be
so what, what can they do? they don’t have enough prisons for all the people who download stuff,
The music industry has been screwed over big time by the free downloads, home CD/DVD burners were pretty bad but sharing online is killing their trade.
Their problem is the industry is used to paying up front money to stars like Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and others with the expectation of mega-sales to recoup the advances.
Downloading short circuits the system but the artists still expect big money, hence the clampdown. Even iTunes and similar are not helping that much, instead of paying $25-30 for a new album you pay $2.98 for the three best tracks so there is a shortfall that has to come from somewhere.
This DOESN’T mean the end of the Internet - it was around long before downloading even existed and will continue to grow, some monitoring is to be expected, after all stuff like child pornography or bomb making is circulating and should be stopped, the system grew so big, so fast that governments have never caught up and have only now begun to try and police the system to keep the crooks and creeps offline.
there will always be countires that dont sign these aggreements
If people acted decently and paid for the music, movies and software they download instead of stealing it, this would not be an issue. As for porn, and radical extremist stuff. Let it go elsewhere.
I think the internet should have some controlling entity. Total freedom is not possible without considerable abuses.
This is a declaration of War. And we will fight for our freedom. We demand Net Neutrality. No government interference.
I don’t believe any such law would be passed. It is not so easy. Slashdot has not said anything about it yet, so it can’t be true. You should have posted some source to your story. Now I can’t check.