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[ NNSquad ] Tech companies fear ACTA
Tech companies fear ACTA http://bit.ly/c1c9wV (AP) If the ACTA is enacted including the sorts of draconian provisions that we've seen in the leaked drafts up to now, I predict that the result will be an explosion of online civil disobedience that will make current piracy problems look like a drop in the bucket. Internet "three strikes" provisions will be unworkable and effectively unenforceable -- courts in many countries are likely to insist that access to the Internet is now a necessary facet of life. Meanwhile, serious pirates will be driven ever more deeply underground where their activities will continue but will be increasingly opaque to tracking mechanisms. There is a tangible sense that the entertainment industry (and as I've noted in the past, I have numerous friends in the film and music industries here in L.A., so I have considerable sympathy for their concerns) is attempting to warp the entire Internet in a desperate effort to hold back technological change. My posting "Copyright: Dead Man Walking" ( http://bit.ly/drbTy ) from around a year ago discusses related issues in more detail. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator