MPAA Wants To Know If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks?
from the huh? dept
The folks over at Open Acta Mexico sent over their report on an open information meeting at the Ministry of the Economy in Mexico about ACTA last week. There were two oddities that they called attention to. The first is that there was an MPAA representative at the meeting, who apparently asked whether or not ACTA could be used to block access to "damaging" sites like Wikileaks. As the Open Acta Mexico people asked, what does Wikileaks have to do with movies? It seems like an interesting question, though, and I'm assuming that the MPAA is using Wikileaks as an example of a site they deem "dangerous" to get the idea across, so that later when they designate other sites (say... The Pirate Bay....) as dangerous, they can use this to make the case it should be blocked. Nice to see the MPAA is so blatant about using copyright for censorship...The other oddity in the meeting was that apparently the ACTA negotiator who was there leading the meeting, Gilda Gonzalez Camarena, claimed that the negotiators met every day with the relevant Senate commission to keep them updated on ACTA negotiations. Yet, Open Acta Mexico notes that the Senate recently requested a full debrief on ACTA negotiators later this month. If they're getting briefings every day, why do they need a debrief?
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To quote the linked tweet
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On Censorship
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This is a bit of a myth actually. The evidence suggests that, although the stationers company was officially supposed to implement censorship, in practice the government didn't rely on them for that function.
The reality is that the orignal stationers charter gave them a monopoly on all printing (as was the norm for the various guilds at the time). Copyright originally operated within that monopoly as a private "non-compete" arrangement amongst the staioners themselves
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"I want to know what they will do when if ever they get piracy to stop and their revenues don't grow what they will do about it LoL"
They'll label every man, woman, and child as pirates and sue the entire country for not buying their inferior media products. ;P I reeeeeally hate those copyright mafia guyz.
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Lobbying Potential?
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Re: Lobbying Potential?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
http://www.osnews.com/story/2 3002/Obama_Sides_with_RIAA_MPAA_Backs_ACTA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html
http ://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/mpaa-already-lo/
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/12/wh at-the-mpaa-wants-from-obama-3-strikes-canada-crackdown.ars
We replaced one president who was owned by the oil industry with one who is owned by the entertainment industry. Let's not screw this up again in 2012.
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all about content
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Kill(er) Bill
http://www.technollama.co.uk/u-s-proposed-bill-against-piracy
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