Wikileaks has published a document from the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement Talks which begin soon. The document that can be downloaded here is deeply concerning on the privacy and civil liberties of people travelling with items such as Laptops, MP3 players, mobile phones and other storage device as under these proposals they will be searched for “pirated” content. This is a huge security risk as now a user is forced to lets someone use there laptop without a warrant or a lawyer present, how can this person be trusted?
ISPs would also be asked to provide information on copyright infringers without a warrant to make it easier for them to be sued by “copyright” holders. It would also make it easier to close down websites like the Pirate Bay as there legal right to exist (which they have, there not hosting the content, just linking to it). This will resulted in a censored internet on economic and political grounds. That’s not very fit of the “free” world.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
ACTA’s secret negotiations revealed by Wikileaks.
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