Warning: You Are A Dirty Pirate

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Le Inq wrote:WARNING MESSAGES about piracy could soon start appearing in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications if the US Congress passes proposed legislation.

The bill would be a substitute to the HR 1319 Act and has been proposed by Representitive Henry Waxman, who said that he hopes to "prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through certain P2P file sharing programs without first providing notice and obtaining consent from an owner or authorised user of the computer".

The Informed P2P User Act (PDF), put forward by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sets out rules aimed at curbing the inadvertent sharing of illegal and sensitive information by providing a "clear and conspicuous notice", and requiring the "informed consent" of the user before files are shared.

The legislation also lays out rules to prevent any surreptitious installations of P2P software, insisting that users must be warned before the software is installed and must be able to uninstall it easily if they want to.

The bill describes P2P software as all applications that make files on a user's computer "available for searching and copying to one or more other computers", or allows "the searching of files on the computer on which such program is installed and the copying of any such file to another computer".

If the motion is passed in the US, a similar proposition could then be made for the European Union and other jurisdictions.

Despite the vast number of legitimate uses for P2P applications, the software is often regarded solely as a channel for the dissemination of pirated content, and application developers and torrent sites have both come under heavy fire over the years.

Similarly, the debates by the EU and the US Federal Communications Commission about net neutrality could have a fundamental impact on the future of technologies like P2P, which is viewed by many ISPs as a major drain on resources and something over which they have little or no control.
hahahahahahahaha :roflmao:

Yeah, how are those "You Are A Dirty Pirate" warnings on legally bought DVDs working out for you?

Re: Warning: You Are A Dirty Pirate

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Man, this just keeps getting better...

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Le Inq wrote:A SECRET TREATY might bind the world's countries to act as copyright cops, but no one other than a few lawyers for big corporations is allowed to read the draft.

According to Ars Technica, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will include a section on Internet "enforcement procedures".

The ACTA has worried a lot of people by threatening to become a means for the US to impose its bizarre copyright laws on the rest of the world.

While many have viewed the US government as the movie and music industries' enforcer, there have been some countries that have had a fairly sane view of so-called 'piracy' of copyrighted content and peer-to-peer filesharing on the Internet.

Politicians have known for some time that bringing the sorts of laws that the US wants into free democratic countries might make them about as popular as Gordon Brown, so apparently they have insisted that the agreement be kept secret.

However Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) found out that the US Trade Representative's office had been secretly canvassing opinions on the Internet section of the agreement from 42 people, all of whom had signed nondisclosure agreements before being shown the ACTA draft text.

Those who have been shown the draft text, which we cannot see, are members of the Business Software Alliance and people at Google, Ebay, Verizon, the Consumer Electronics Association, Intel, Dell, the Center for Democracy and Technology, News Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Time Warner, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Entertainment Software Association and the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights, as well as bizarrely the Zippo Manufacturing Company.

While it looks like the secret treaty has been handed to Big Content on a plate, actually there are a few people on the list who hate Big Content's 'anti-piracy' campaign and all who sail in her.

However one person on the list is none other than Steven Metalitz, who told the Copyright Office that consumers have no right to be upset after buying DRMed music from a store that goes out of business and takes its DRM servers offline.

Certainly the list is stacked against defenders of people's rights and in favour of the content cartels.

When ACTA negotiations resume in early November in Seoul, South Korea, it seems that the corporations will have had enough time to give their countries' leaders a Chinese burn and tell them what they have to do. Then an agreement will be announced as an accomplished fact that will require all governments to cart people off to jail for copying a DVD that they bought. µ