ACTA Treaty Draft Leaks, calls for Guilt Upon Accusation And More
BoingBoing reports on a leaked draft of the ACTA treaty (what is ACTA?). The draft says “That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger [...] That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel [...] That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright.” Read the BoingBoing article for more.
