After years of behind closed doors discussions, leaking document drafts and denied information requests surrounding ACTA the US has release some details this Monday.
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is an agreement between the US, the EU, Japan and various other countries in response “to the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works”.
The current draft calls for criminal penalties (i.e. jail sentences) for “camcording“, i.e. filming a movie in the cinema with a camcorder.
Also in there: Demands for effective deterring measures targeting internet users. Graduated response (i.e. three strikes) is apparently one of those discussed and advocated by lobbyists, Sarkozy, Berlusconi and others.
And of course, the “your computer and data storage devices will be searched for illegal materials at the border” passages we already heard about.
What a glorious future.
First: I’m glad you started this platform. It’s often difficult to get an overview of what is happening besides the financial crisis or football-news. And also it seems as if the mainstream press is not interested in privacy, censorship and surveillance issues.
On Topic: I guess, when they want to search my hd at the border, it is only a question of time until secret passwords are no more allowed to be secret. Where is this going to end?