Several new bills in the US to try and follow SOPA/PIPA

[Esclair]

It looks like the news is out, but no major news source is reporting on it:

http://universalfreepress.com/share-...ndment-rights/

[Rising Dragon]

Well, guess that's it for America.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Esclair

It looks like the news is out, but no major news source is reporting on it:

http://universalfreepress.com/share-...ndment-rights/

The law says that the intelligence community can collect, retain, and disseminate all electronic communications including voice calls [without any constitutional restrictions] on all US citizens and everyone else in the world.

I'm not saying that it would be a good/just law (if passed), but as far as I know, neither the first, the fourth, nor the fifth amendment really deals with the government doing surveillance on its people, although I suppose the fourth amendment could be made applicable to such a case.

[AnimeFan188]

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants:

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying
number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States' excessive
copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the
same lengths so it will be harder to shorten them in the future. It contains DRM anti-
circumvention provisions that will make it a crime to tinker with, hack, re-sell, preserve, and
otherwise control any number of digital files and devices that you own. The TPP will
encourage ISPs to monitor and police their users, likely leading to more censorship measures
such as the blockage and filtering of content online in the name of copyright enforcement.
And in the most recent leak of the TPP's Intellectual Property chapter, we found an even
more alarming provision on trade secrets that could be used to crackdown on journalists and
whistleblowers who report on corporate wrongdoing."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/go-to-prison-for-...wan-1685807244

[Ghiest Cid]

Originally Posted by Esclair

It looks like the news is out, but no major news source is reporting on it:

http://universalfreepress.com/share-...ndment-rights/

This remind me of George Orwell's works . There is also Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged where Atlas (the productive part of society) shrugged(call it quits) due to high taxation and unfair practices with less benefits.

[AnimeFan188]

This is the best version of Star Wars — and watching it is a crime:

"Anyone who wants to see a high-quality version of the original cut of the film
faces a couple of hurdles. One is that Lucas has never taken steps to properly
preserve or restore the original physical film reels. He's gone so far as refusing to
allow the Library of Congress's National Film Registry to get its hands on a copy.
Nor has he released a high-quality version for home viewing. A few people may
have their hands on obsolete VHS or Laserdisc sets, of course, but that doesn't
help. Back in 2006, he released a DVD set that contained the original cut of Star
Wars, but it's a low-quality transfer made back in 1993 for the Laserdisc not a
proper DVD release to say nothing of a Blu-ray.

Enter a hero named Petr Harmy, who painstakingly created the cut I watched and
calls it the "Despecialized Edition." You can see what he did here:

He made it by digitally combining elements of the 2011 special edition Blu-Rays,
the 2006 bonus DVD, a 2004 HDTV telecast, a scan of an old 35 millimeter print,
and a handful of other sources. It took a lot of hard work, but thanks to Harmy's
labor of love a really cool experience is now available.

But, again, watching it is a crime."


"The ridiculous thing about the situation isn't that Lucas doesn't want to make
the cut of the film that I want to watch. It's that it was illegal for Harmy to make
it. And it was illegal for me to download it. And it would be illegal for me to make it
available for download from Vox.com or even to put a link on this page that would
let you go get it. It's illegal because of the ways that, over the years, Congress
has extended and expanded the scope of copyright law in ways that have
become perverse and destructive to human culture."

See:

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/30/7952859...ition-download

[AnimeFan188]

Japanese Government Holds Conference on TPP's Effects on Comiket:

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement under negotiation
among 12 countries around the Pacific Rim, will standardize intellectual property
laws. In Japan, this includes reclassifying copyright infringement as a crime that
can be prosecuted without the victim's consent. In Japan, it is currently a
shinkokuzai, or a crime that can only be prosecuted if the victim files charges.

On May 15, the Japanese government held a conference in Tokyo to discuss the
TPP and made reference to its effects on Japan's dōjin culture. Assistant Secretary
Kazuhisa Shibuya acknowledged that negotiations on intellectual property laws
were "difficult" and singled out negative effects on Comiket as an issue the
government was trying to address. Comiket currently exists in a gray zone, since
while dōjinshi are technically against the law, most creators tacitly consent to
their production and sale.

Anime fan reaction to the briefing session was mixed. Many were outraged,
claiming that the laws would destroy an important part of fan culture, and called
for protests.

"If both the participants and the business side are fine with it, it's not a problem
for outsiders to butt into," one said. Others saw the laws as helpful, claiming that
Comiket had become too commercialized and reaffirming the importance of
copyright protection."

See:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/inte...comiket/.88431

[Cosmic Eagle]

It's entirely up to the prosecutor to decide whether to prosecute or not...


If creators are fine with Comiket why should prosecutors intervene? I don't see the problem here.... unless those prosecutors are so desperate to that extent for work


Or is it a tacit acknowledgement that prosecutors are so useless they can't handle actual cases...


The real reason for the TPP is to counter China....why should lawmakers butt in where that is not concerned? How the hell does Comiket threaten that goal one bit?

[Dominic Night]

Should it be brought up that they managed to fast-track this and final vote is coming Wednesday. From what seems to flying around, this bill is going to be even worse in what people are saying. 3rd parties can now claim copyright law on someone and basically get paid for just bounty hunting across the internet even though the original holders said it was fine.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Well....there's still the hope that sane bureaucrats in countries not the USA would pay only lip service to this nonsensical law in its implementation in their own countries




And actually, fast-tracking this is for the better....Better than a TPP that some time later, gets hit with more IP crap because some interest group in the US lobbied for it

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Well, this is a pile of bullshit. I don't want archaic US laws in my country, we have enough of our own as is.

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Would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating and true.

[AnimeFan188]

RIAA chief says DMCA is “largely useless” to combat music
piracy:

"Cary Sherman, the chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry
Association of America, has some choice words about the current state of
US copyright law. He says that under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, rightsholders must play a game of whack-a-mole with Internet
companies to get them to remove infringing content."

See:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...-music-piracy/

[AnimeFan188]

Copyright Law is an Ass:

"The news of Warner losing its case over the rights to 'Happy Birthday'
was a welcome sign. But copyright laws for lyrics and poetry are still
ridiculous."

See:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...is-an-ass.html

[JokerD]

Trans-Pacific free trade deal agreed creating vast partnership

Any news as to what's in the TPP yet, or is it still shrouded in secrecy even as it's passed into law?

[Magin]

I just saw on another site that the TPP was signed.

Does this basically translate to we're all now fucked?

[Dominic Night]

Pretty much, at least. It'll be around 60 days for congress to sign this and than it'll be completed which we could probably send letters to them telling them that we don't want this. Someone should notify those who have big followings, Chibi and others. Maybe they can tell their fans and have a larger amount of outcry.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Magin

I just saw on another site that the TPP was signed.

Does this basically translate to we're all now fucked?

VPN and shit man.... As long as you are not a security threat they won't waste resources tracking you

Also, you really think public outcry can beat back the billions going into corrupt businessmen's pockets?

More worrying to me actually is if Comiket will be affected...It'll be damn stupid if it got banned when it's virtually run by primary creators and their companies themselves....

[TheCatWalk]

This TPP shit is seriously scary. I watched some youtube vids and spent today fully researching.

In a hypothetical situation,

If u live in one of those 12 countries, and you just as much upload a picture of a cover of a novel, the company can sue you (or your country) because what you did affected the sales, and your country has no say in it.
Even this animesuki forums.

Animesuki forums is full of SPOILERS. well the rules in animesuki states that if we use the [spoiler] tag in threads that allow us to spoil the content then it is acceptable.
But these spoilers can in a roundabout way affect the sales of companies like yenpress. (like, after reading the spoilers, buyers will lose motivation to buy their stuff) , they can simply call someone (ministries and stuff, also ISPs) to shut the whole site down.
And even sue the owners.

^Hypothetically that is.

But in the end it's up to the lawmakers and prosecutors.
they say TPP is mostly to counter China. So they might not go out of their ways to kill us.
But as for how that will effect the otaco cults~ we can only wait 2-3 months to know.

[risingstar3110]

Yeah TPP is some dangerous shit. Like, I don't ever use the word "New World Order" before, but this seemed to be like one, honestly.

TPP is not the only one. It is a part of the triangle with TTIP and TISA

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by TheCatWalk

This TPP shit is seriously scary. I watched some youtube vids and spent today fully researching.

In a hypothetical situation,

If u live in one of those 12 countries, and you just as much upload a picture of a cover of a novel, the company can sue you (or your country) because what you did affected the sales, and your country has no say in it.
Even this animesuki forums.

Animesuki forums is full of SPOILERS. well the rules in animesuki states that if we use the [spoiler] tag in threads that allow us to spoil the content then it is acceptable.
But these spoilers can in a roundabout way affect the sales of companies like yenpress. (like, after reading the spoilers, buyers will lose motivation to buy their stuff) , they can simply call someone (ministries and stuff, also ISPs) to shut the whole site down.
And even sue the owners.

^Hypothetically that is.

But in the end it's up to the lawmakers and prosecutors.
they say TPP is mostly to counter China. So they might not go out of their ways to kill us.
But as for how that will effect the otaco cults~ we can only wait 2-3 months to know.

No shit.... what do you expect when the otaku industry is barely represented in negotiations. The big people in entertainment are shits like disney and the RIAA...people who do not understand how the otaku circle functions


For example, if Japan's lawmakers have to say at a TPP conference that "it isn't finalized. We understand Comiket's concerns" do you think it implies that the otaku industry has much say in negotiations?

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...-wordleafv-pol