"I've decided to write about what I've been writing about on that
blog for the last few days, the secret treaty called the "Trans-Pacific Partnership", which will
basically force US to adopt copyright laws so broad and corrupt that it will make SOPA look
nice. Under the law, the ISP's are required to A) filter all communications looking for possible
or alleged infringement, and then they are forced to hand it over to the government. The
government would then look through it looking for possible infringement. The problem with
this is that the government can then say that this site needs to be taken down to google and
other similar sites, force ISPS to filter it out, and worse. No actual proof is required that the
transmission or site is actually infringing on something, just one infringing link, or the
assurance that the site contains lots of infringing links. Also temporary copy infringement, is
not exempt to this. Every time someone watches a video on YouTube, 1000's of temporary
copies are created by the streaming process. The ISP would be forced to use deep packet
inspection to find these and if one of these temporary copies is a YouTube packet that is part
of a youtube video stream that has one "alleged" infringement on it, the person watching the
video could get arrested, and sued, because the ISP is forced to tell the "alleged" copyright
holder. The most recent RIAA case defendant had to pay $22,500 dollars per songs for
illegally downloading only 30 songs, each only 99 cents each... Imagine that multiplied by
1000 for listening to a video on YouTube where video game footage is overlayed with
copyrighted music, because of the 1000's of temporary copies produced on the persons
HDD, all caught by the ISP. That's $22,500,000 dollars for watching a video!
Under this, there is an almost certain chance YouTube will be shut down. Youtube is filled with
infringing videos uploading copyrighted music. At least a few million. But the other video types
uploaded to youtube, such as video game lets plays, walkthroughs, etc, could all be sources of
"alleged" infringement, due to the fact that many videos showing off games are put under fair
use, which TPP seems to be made to eliminate. But even worse, since the government simply
has to say a site is filled with infringing links, a lot of sites will be targeted under this. Expect all
the big file sharing hosts like 4shared, mediafire, etc to be shut down first. They have tons of
copyrighted material on them, and many people keep assuming they profit off pirated files
because they allow people to buy premium accounts for more upload space, even though the
pirated files are all tiny files, all tiny portions of an archive, split into 200 parts with 200 accounts
registered to upload a file. There is no way sites like this are profiting off of files uploaded to
their free account due to the fact that ads on these sites are part of every download, no
matter how legal."
It's important to talk to your senators NOW. Let them hear your voice. Tell them you can't
stand what this treaty is doing and that that your against it, and they should not vote for it.
It will shut down 90% of the known internet. This is really important, you can do something
about this... It is due for ratification soon, by the end of the year.... Get to work, youtubers!
Note, to get around the filtering they plan, you can use the EFF's plugin, HTTPS everywhere,
to force your browser (FireFox Only) to use the Encrypted HTTPS format. This should (in theory)
prevent the ISP's from illegally reading your traffic (deep packet filtering) under the TPP to find
alleged copyright material some 2 bit fake copyright holder claims you are distributing when your
not. These things can be bypassed. In case this gets passed make sure to do this!
blog for the last few days, the secret treaty called the "Trans-Pacific Partnership", which will
basically force US to adopt copyright laws so broad and corrupt that it will make SOPA look
nice. Under the law, the ISP's are required to A) filter all communications looking for possible
or alleged infringement, and then they are forced to hand it over to the government. The
government would then look through it looking for possible infringement. The problem with
this is that the government can then say that this site needs to be taken down to google and
other similar sites, force ISPS to filter it out, and worse. No actual proof is required that the
transmission or site is actually infringing on something, just one infringing link, or the
assurance that the site contains lots of infringing links. Also temporary copy infringement, is
not exempt to this. Every time someone watches a video on YouTube, 1000's of temporary
copies are created by the streaming process. The ISP would be forced to use deep packet
inspection to find these and if one of these temporary copies is a YouTube packet that is part
of a youtube video stream that has one "alleged" infringement on it, the person watching the
video could get arrested, and sued, because the ISP is forced to tell the "alleged" copyright
holder. The most recent RIAA case defendant had to pay $22,500 dollars per songs for
illegally downloading only 30 songs, each only 99 cents each... Imagine that multiplied by
1000 for listening to a video on YouTube where video game footage is overlayed with
copyrighted music, because of the 1000's of temporary copies produced on the persons
HDD, all caught by the ISP. That's $22,500,000 dollars for watching a video!
Under this, there is an almost certain chance YouTube will be shut down. Youtube is filled with
infringing videos uploading copyrighted music. At least a few million. But the other video types
uploaded to youtube, such as video game lets plays, walkthroughs, etc, could all be sources of
"alleged" infringement, due to the fact that many videos showing off games are put under fair
use, which TPP seems to be made to eliminate. But even worse, since the government simply
has to say a site is filled with infringing links, a lot of sites will be targeted under this. Expect all
the big file sharing hosts like 4shared, mediafire, etc to be shut down first. They have tons of
copyrighted material on them, and many people keep assuming they profit off pirated files
because they allow people to buy premium accounts for more upload space, even though the
pirated files are all tiny files, all tiny portions of an archive, split into 200 parts with 200 accounts
registered to upload a file. There is no way sites like this are profiting off of files uploaded to
their free account due to the fact that ads on these sites are part of every download, no
matter how legal."
It's important to talk to your senators NOW. Let them hear your voice. Tell them you can't
stand what this treaty is doing and that that your against it, and they should not vote for it.
It will shut down 90% of the known internet. This is really important, you can do something
about this... It is due for ratification soon, by the end of the year.... Get to work, youtubers!
Note, to get around the filtering they plan, you can use the EFF's plugin, HTTPS everywhere,
to force your browser (FireFox Only) to use the Encrypted HTTPS format. This should (in theory)
prevent the ISP's from illegally reading your traffic (deep packet filtering) under the TPP to find
alleged copyright material some 2 bit fake copyright holder claims you are distributing when your
not. These things can be bypassed. In case this gets passed make sure to do this!
basically force US to adopt copyright laws so broad and corrupt that it will make SOPA look
nice. Under the law, the ISP's are required to A) filter all communications looking for possible
or alleged infringement, and then they are forced to hand it over to the government. The
government would then look through it looking for possible infringement. The problem with
this is that the government can then say that this site needs to be taken down to google and
other similar sites, force ISPS to filter it out, and worse. No actual proof is required that the
transmission or site is actually infringing on something, just one infringing link, or the
assurance that the site contains lots of infringing links. Also temporary copy infringement, is
not exempt to this. Every time someone watches a video on YouTube, 1000's of temporary
copies are created by the streaming process. The ISP would be forced to use deep packet
inspection to find these and if one of these temporary copies is a YouTube packet that is part
of a youtube video stream that has one "alleged" infringement on it, the person watching the
video could get arrested, and sued, because the ISP is forced to tell the "alleged" copyright
holder. The most recent RIAA case defendant had to pay $22,500 dollars per songs for
illegally downloading only 30 songs, each only 99 cents each... Imagine that multiplied by
1000 for listening to a video on YouTube where video game footage is overlayed with
copyrighted music, because of the 1000's of temporary copies produced on the persons
HDD, all caught by the ISP. That's $22,500,000 dollars for watching a video!
Under this, there is an almost certain chance YouTube will be shut down. Youtube is filled with
infringing videos uploading copyrighted music. At least a few million. But the other video types
uploaded to youtube, such as video game lets plays, walkthroughs, etc, could all be sources of
"alleged" infringement, due to the fact that many videos showing off games are put under fair
use, which TPP seems to be made to eliminate. But even worse, since the government simply
has to say a site is filled with infringing links, a lot of sites will be targeted under this. Expect all
the big file sharing hosts like 4shared, mediafire, etc to be shut down first. They have tons of
copyrighted material on them, and many people keep assuming they profit off pirated files
because they allow people to buy premium accounts for more upload space, even though the
pirated files are all tiny files, all tiny portions of an archive, split into 200 parts with 200 accounts
registered to upload a file. There is no way sites like this are profiting off of files uploaded to
their free account due to the fact that ads on these sites are part of every download, no
matter how legal."
It's important to talk to your senators NOW. Let them hear your voice. Tell them you can't
stand what this treaty is doing and that that your against it, and they should not vote for it.
It will shut down 90% of the known internet. This is really important, you can do something
about this... It is due for ratification soon, by the end of the year.... Get to work, youtubers!
Note, to get around the filtering they plan, you can use the EFF's plugin, HTTPS everywhere,
to force your browser (FireFox Only) to use the Encrypted HTTPS format. This should (in theory)
prevent the ISP's from illegally reading your traffic (deep packet filtering) under the TPP to find
alleged copyright material some 2 bit fake copyright holder claims you are distributing when your
not. These things can be bypassed. In case this gets passed make sure to do this!
