KEI posts the RIAA's demands for ACTA as submitted to the USTR earlier this year.
RIAA Demands for ACTA
June 29, 2008
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Whoa!
Disgusting.
two words
Holy S**t!
ACTA demands
In other words all of society, our whole telecommunications infrastructure, legal sysem, manufacturing, border controls, police priorities etc must all be restructured to serve their outmoded 1955 business model.
Sort of a notice-and-death model.
“Sir, do you have a license for that blank CD-R? No? You’re under arrest.”
The only thing that makes these demands unfunny is that the Harper government will doubtless grant them all. We need an election! I like Dion fine, but if he doesn’t do his job he should be booted out in favour on someone who will.
this is rediculous!
I guess the New World Order and Big Brother are manipulating the laws by trying to turn Canada into a police state too! It’s time for Canadians to keep fighting this and keep our what little freedoms we have left!
In Soviet Russia…
Jesus, the bit about requiring government licensing for disc-pressing equipment is straight out of the old Soviet Union (all printing presses had to be licensed to identify the source of “seditious” printed material)
Will ACTA tattle on me if I …
… try to download VLC? ([ link ])
… try to download a Linux OS?
On something
I think i will have a bowl of what the RIAA and the CRIA
Must be some really good shit
My 2 Watts