What is actually IN this thing?

[bpc]

Revolutionary concept: figuring out the actual contents before going on a mindless rant. Yeah, it's bad. But HOW bad?

What sites would be going down? If rapidshare goes down, people will be pissed but it's not the end of the world for most people. If YOUTUBE or similar goes down, it's gonna be a fucking revolution.

So... what does this affect, what does it allow, what exactly is going on here?

[noranon]

We need some readfags, and we need them quickly.

[jetpacktuxedo]

First off, as a grammar nazi, I would like to say that you mean "affect", not "effect".

Anyway, The chunk of it that I know is that it requires ISPs to watch their customers and take down anything that "could potentially be a copyright violation." Since anything "could potentially be a copyright violation" this would give ISPs the right to take down any material they wanted.

Also, if anyone reports material as a violation of copyright then ISPs are required to take it down, no questions asked. This being the case I could simply call up my ISP, say that all of ebay was violating my copyright, and they would be required to take it down.

In all actuality, there would be some sort of investigation for a site as large as ebay before it was taken down, but smaller sites without the money to afford lawyers to fight it would be screwed.

Edit: Here is a good summary article: www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4910/125/

[rammstein812]

they will be given the right to check your hard drive(with or without a valuable reason), downloading songs may become a crime. This site might give you a brief idea: www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/international-i/

Youtube won't go down, copyright rules will sure be a lot more enforced, same for facebook, rapidshare will probably be targeted, torrents too, limewire, almost anything related to Peers to Peers systems will be in trouble.

[bpc]

Ah, thank you. Affect/Effect is one of those little things that drives me crazy...

All right. So yeah, potentially the end of youtube. At least, the end of any semi-copyrighted content on it. Bad news, in other words.

[earthrester]

So my question is, what corporations are going to profit from this the most.

The US government has become nothing more then a tool for corporate america to make more money with. If we find out which corporations want this bill to be passed the most. We could target congressmen/women who get the most "contributions" from them.

[jetpacktuxedo]

As far as american corporations go, I would say that the two that will benefit the most would be the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

[earthrester]

Mar 28, 2010 16:52:54 GMT -6 jetpacktuxedo said:

As far as american corporations go, I would say that the two that will benefit the most would be the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

Then we find out who they are giving "contributions" to, and target those congressmen/women. Let them know that we know.

[villainy]

Any company with stock or properties that could be used, distributed, or sold online.

Not to mention, speaking of what this act could do, If one read into the bill, looked into the future, under these laws, a company, like time-warner for example, could say "So and so is violating our copyright, they have this, this, and this....." The cops can now search and seize with no warning, and no cause, except that Time-Warner said so.

[klaven]

As you all may or may not know, the recent supreme court decision allowed corporations to donate infinite amounts of money to political campaigns. I would not be surprised if certain politicians who are backed by the RIAA and similar groups will be very much for the destruction of the internet. If somebody could find out which politicians are being backed by these groups, we could undermine their credibility very easily.

[villainy]

Right now i'm working on translating things for a common man.

[Anonymoose]

I heard that the ACTA was more of a anti-designer-knock-offs thing than a piracy deterrent, even though it does have some major legislation for monitoring the users.