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Originally Posted by ekaser
News story from Declan McCullough of CNet News on the ACTA treaty:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20003005-38.html
Supposedly the "three strikes" language has been removed, but there's still language about ISPs being responsible for not policing their systems for copyrighted material. |
There was a legal case over just that. AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) sued iiNet (Australia's third largest ISP) over this very issue as well as accusing them of facilitating privacy.
AFACT's case was shredded by the presiding judge and iiNet were awarded four million dollars in court costs.
Now, AFACT are appealing the case, though the judge made it pretty cut and dried.
The entertainment industry refuse to revamp their outmoded, obsolete distribution practices and instead force lawsuits on people accused of copyright violations. Now they are attempting to force ISP's to do the police work for them. AFACT thought they were on a winner here. Pick a big target that would not be able to afford a long legal case, make a legal precedent out of them and the other ISP's including the biggest ones would fall in line. They were proved wrong.
The ACTA draft agreement should have the utmost scrutiny applied to it. Good on the EU for doing so.
Interesting times....