Under ACTA governments would be able to crack down on the fans of these creators against those creators' own wishes! Even if one accepts the validity of intellectual-property rights (which I do not) who would be the rights holder here .... I predict that ACTA will result in a war on the Internet akin to the war on drugs. Internet use would not disappear but many perfectly legitimate activities will be relegated to a black market of sorts complete with all the ...
Internet Freedom Is A Right Down With Acta »
His point there is that ACTA negotiations are happening mostly in secret and without representative government or civilian input. Freedom of information requests have been turned down because of bogus national security reasons but .... I'm ALL FOR companies choosing to retain the exclusive right to duplicate their works for instance but after something is legitimately purchased it is morally repugnant for anyone to try and impose artificial restrictions on the use ...
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