More ACTA Details Leak: It's An Entertainment Industry Wishlist

Found on Techdirt on Monday, 02 November 2009
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The treaty pushed South Korea to implement new copyright laws that are perhaps the most draconian around, getting the country to be the first to kick people off the internet based on accusations of file sharing, and putting so much liability on third parties that various user-generated content services have had to turn off the ability to upload all sorts of content (no videos on YouTube, no music on blogs) and has resulted in ISPs even banning any kind of advertising that might make them liable for copyright infringement.

Yet, because the American record labels and movie studios don't want to change with the times, they're pushing through these laws, outside the judiciary process, sneaking it through via a secretive international treaty they had a hand in writing.

Unless you want to whine in a few years about how the Internet has turned into totally censored Industrynet, do something. Write your senator, point out how much these laws, most likely based on bribery, are a punch into the face of any freedom loving nation.