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2010-04-06 Science & Technology

D.C. Circuit Rules Against Net Neutrality

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-06 11:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This is a big win for the forces of good. It likely puts the kibosh on the US government requiring ISPs to monitor users for copyright violations, or the equivalent of an "Internet Fairness Doctrine", which would shut down thousands of conservative Internet sites.

Hopefully it also kills the downright evil ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) secret treaty between the US, European and Asian powers:

[The draft ACTA treaty] would require ISPs to police user-generated content, to cut off Internet access for copyright violators, and to remove content that is accused of copyright violation without any proof of actual violation.

"ACTA also completely prohibits DRM workarounds, even for archiving or retrieving ones own work.

"As it stands, Internet users around the world would be headed for a new regime of IP enforcement a culture of invasive searches, minimal privacy, guilt until innocence is proven, and measures that would kill our normative behaviors of file-sharing, free software, media downloading, creative remixing, and even certain civil liberties.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-06 12:27|| 2010-04-06 12:27|| Front Page Top

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