Echoes of two controversial bills SOPA and PIPA has settled down not long, the world's global network again "wave up" in front of a completely new agreement: ACTA, which had up to 22 countries agreed to join.
ACTA there was anything different from SOPA and PIPA, and this new law will have any impact on the global network? Let's find out Total Length story about ACTA.
"Act against commercial fraud" (ACTA) is what?
ACTA, which stands for Anti-COUNTERFEITING Trade Agreement (Act against commercial fraud). ACTA is signed first by the United States and Japan in 2006, then Australia, Canada, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea also joined the agreement in 2007.
One of the key objectives of ACTA is to protect and prevent infringement of intellectual property on the Internet. ACTA has no scope of control of any existing international organization, whether the United Nations (UN) or the World Trade Organization (WTO). When agreed to participate in ACTA, the water present in the agreement will have the authority and obligation to support each other against all matters related to intellectual property protection.
As SOPA and PIPA, ACTA is faced fierce opposition from public opinion - Photo: Internet
If SOPA and PIPA has "died in their infancy," the impact of ACTA on a spread. Specifically, most recently has added 22 countries of the European Union has agreed to ratify ACTA, and the remaining countries of the continent are "snapping at its" plans to join the agreement.
Meanwhile in the United States, ACTA to be seen as a "performance agreement" than a "treaty". Specifically, if you want to sign a treaty, the U.S. president should have votes of at least two thirds of deputies to the Senate. While for a "performance agreement" as ACTA, Barack Obama will be in its sole discretion without through the Senate.
Threatens Internet freedom?
Some council members Poland has Guy Fawkes masks of Anonymous hackers group, while voting against the adoption of ACTA - Photo: Internet
The controversy began to emerge even before the ACTA began collecting signatures of the participating countries. The agreement was publicly known only after Wikileaks published several documents disclosing the contents of the agreement. The parties shall announce only ACTA draft ACTA draft in 2010, after suffering much opposition and criticism from public opinion. Meanwhile observers have criticized that the ACTA negotiations and participation of concerned governments took out a way too shady and dubious.
After Poland will join the ACTA statement a few days ago, a series of government websites has suffered many attacks by the mode of denial of service (DDoS).
"ACTA is more dangerous than SOPA," council member from California, Darrell Issa said in his discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"People need to question why ACTA had to work through the WTO and other international organizations current? I think the most logical answer is to let the person behind the ACTA can operate in secret. ACTA will do everything without the involvement, awareness and agreement of all, that the "board has shipbuilding", then things too late "- Mr. Darrell Issa continued.According to the Organization of Pioneer Electronic (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit organization protecting the objectives as freedom of speech online just as religious activities, "ACTA content potentially more explicitly threatening to privacy of consumers, as well as civil liberties in the access to technological achievements, and block the flow of legal information Internet world, that comes with the ability of developing a country, which is represented by the right to select policy options best suited to domestic priorities and the level of a country's economy. "
So this specific content is what? First, ACTA be allowed to require any Internet service provider (ISP - Internet Service Provider) provides individuals and entities holding ownership of intellectual property information of the registered users behavior download the contents have been copyrighted.
Next, ACTA has the ability to set a legal framework on a global scale, allowing the parties to be flexible modification of this agreement, but both public and domestic legal systems of the parties re not allowed to access the contents of "the global legal framework" mentioned above, although some representatives from related industries to be allowed to have "reasonable observer".
New developments: the latest draft of the ACTA agreement "under water"
In the latest twist, a lot of content within ACTA, which was considered a threat to the freedom of the world's global network has been suspended. Specifically, the content of the legal punishment for ordinary Internet users for downloading behavior (illegally) the contents are protected by copyright as music, movies, software has been postponed indefinitely in the latest draft of ACTA.
Content requirements ACTA all participating countries must take measures to control the third party, such as ISP (Internet service provider) or the maker of consumer electronics are responsible for violations of customer also canceled from the draft. At the outset, this was in direct contradiction to U.S. law, because if they continue, it will require an amendment of the country's laws.
Content on Digital Restrictions Management (Financial Management and processing of digital content) were significantly improved. The previous draft of ACTA had called on countries to aggressively punish any violation of any DRM and handle the violations under both the criminal and civil, and see if the infringement is against DRM law even in the absence of any attempt to detect evidence to indicate that the willful infringement DRM piracy.
Further, the above draft was not aware that the infringement of DRM that, in many cases, can be executed in a completely legal. The latest draft has overcome the deficiencies just enumerated, and given to the countries participating in ACTA agency more flexibility in the implementation of DRM.
In the latest twist, a lot of content within ACTA, which was considered a threat to the freedom of the world's global network has been suspended. Specifically, the content of the legal punishment for ordinary Internet users for downloading behavior (illegally) the contents are protected by copyright as music, movies, software has been postponed indefinitely in the latest draft of ACTA.
Content requirements ACTA all participating countries must take measures to control the third party, such as ISP (Internet service provider) or the maker of consumer electronics are responsible for violations of customer also canceled from the draft. At the outset, this was in direct contradiction to U.S. law, because if they continue, it will require an amendment of the country's laws.
Content on Digital Restrictions Management (Financial Management and processing of digital content) were significantly improved. The previous draft of ACTA had called on countries to aggressively punish any violation of any DRM and handle the violations under both the criminal and civil, and see if the infringement is against DRM law even in the absence of any attempt to detect evidence to indicate that the willful infringement DRM piracy.
Further, the above draft was not aware that the infringement of DRM that, in many cases, can be executed in a completely legal. The latest draft has overcome the deficiencies just enumerated, and given to the countries participating in ACTA agency more flexibility in the implementation of DRM.
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