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Leaked Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Threatens To Destroy Internet As We Know It; Buh-Bye YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, Et. Al….

Nov 5, 11:40am Kingblind: Music, Art & Entertainment
Leaked Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Threatens To Destroy Internet As We Know It; Buh-Bye YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, Et. Al…. Boing Boing: The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability. * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused [...]
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