The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is an outline for an international agreement on how to enforce copyright laws. To prevent redundancy, I won't describe the agreement but I'll post a link to the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
Quotes that captured my interest:
How the hell will they know if content is pirated or ripped? Aside from making everything but DRM locked media illegal, how could they tell the difference between a torrented album or an album ripped legally from a CD? Unless they build a database of hashes of known torrented files and compare to the content on your player, but seriously? That would be a huge waste of resources.
May seem like a leap, but I understand it. Source code for p2p software could easily be uploaded, and therefore would grey-list the website as a potential host of "P1R4T3 S0FTW4R35 LULZ".
There is more, but I'll let you all read that for yourselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
Quotes that captured my interest:
Quote:
"Newspapers reported that the draft agreement would empower security officials at airports and other international borders to conduct random ex officio searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for illegally downloaded or "ripped" music and movies. Travellers with infringing content would be subject to a fine and may have their devices confiscated or destroyed."
How the hell will they know if content is pirated or ripped? Aside from making everything but DRM locked media illegal, how could they tell the difference between a torrented album or an album ripped legally from a CD? Unless they build a database of hashes of known torrented files and compare to the content on your player, but seriously? That would be a huge waste of resources.
Quote:
"ACTA would also require that existing ISP no longer host free software that can access copyrighted media; this would substantially affect many sites that offer free software or host software projects such as SourceForge."
May seem like a leap, but I understand it. Source code for p2p software could easily be uploaded, and therefore would grey-list the website as a potential host of "P1R4T3 S0FTW4R35 LULZ".
There is more, but I'll let you all read that for yourselves.
