Time to pay for the net: Rupert Murdoch
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- ACTA — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — is of deep interest to anyone who’s the least concerned about the net.
Last week, “the United States met behind closed doors with dozens of other countries in Seoul, South Korea to consider a global agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” said KEI and Public Knowledge, going on:
“This agreement, though named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), implicates changes to international intellectual property norms far broader than its name suggests.”
ACTA has also been called the Hollywood Dream.
But movie moguls, not to mention Big Music, aren’t the only ones watching its progress.
“ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” said the IDG News Service recently.
However, as p2pnet has often observed, “Promoted by America, Yes — but on behalf of the entertainment industry.”
The Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net ‘initiative’ touted around the world as individual government plans, “is nothing but a part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to turn governments into copyright agencies funded by local taxpayers, and ISPs into copyright police, acting against their own customs,” we said.
Now, not surprisingly, Oz zillionaire and Fux owner Rupert Murdoch (right) Rupert reckons net access content is worth money.
Lots of money. And who better to mine it?
But why should net users, who’ve always enjoyed free content, suddenly have to pay for it?
Easy, says Rupert, “They shouldn’t have had it free all the time.
“Ithink we’ve been asleep.”
So now it’s time to for Rupert to give us a rude awakening.
And make himself even richer in the process.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
KEI and Public Knowledge – Missing Safeguards in ACTA present risks to consumers in the United States, November 9, 2009
Hollywood Dream – ACTA, the Hollywood dream: CIPPIC, May 27, 2009
IDG News Service – Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability, November 3, 2009
often observed – Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA, November 4, 2009
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