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Pods, iPhones, laptops and other digital devices could be seized by customs officials worldwide under a new top-secret copyright policing deal being worked out between the G8 nations, reports claim.
Nations including Canada, the US and various European states (including the UK, which sits on the G8) are secretly agreeing a new pan-global state police deal in which information held on iPods and other devices could be subject to investigation by customs officials tasked with a new role, as copyright police.
Dubbed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), signatory nations will form an international coalition against copyright infringement.
The deal’s up for discussion at the next G8 meeting in Tokyo in July, It creates rules and regulations to govern private copying and copyright laws, and posits the founding of an international regulator, “that would turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police,” reports Ottawa Citizen, the National Post and other Canadian media outlets.
These copyright police would be given the job of checking laptops, iPods, iPhones and other personal devices for content that “infringes” on copyright laws, “including ripped CDs and DVDs”. To make this Stalinist proposition even more annoying, front line security staff will be empowered to decide what content infringes on copyright laws. And also makes any content copied from DVD or a digital video recorder open to scrutiny by officials.
It’s likely these lunatic new proposals are being drawn up in secret in order to outflank any outcry by privacy advocates or any true intellectual discussion as to whether such protectionism should be applied in favour of content creation firms.
Officials will be able to levy fines or seize goods even in the absence of any complaints by rights holders. And searches will be allowed even without a lawyer present. And ISPs will be forced to hand over personal information on any alleged copyright infringers - no actual proof will be required. And, to make it even more Orwellian, ACTA will be unaccountable to any existing trade organisation, effectively meaning the RIAA and other such bodies will run a public/private international police force with the right to search, fine and confiscate property without any accountability. Local Canadian privacy advocates point out that governments have been privately negotiating these new proposals without consultation, and that the proposals revealed yesterday only surfaced due to the application of freedom of information type laws.
If I read that right....then they'll have the right to search my MP3 player, and I'll have to prove that I purchased those tracks...?
and its worse in the USA: didnt the RIAA try to get it so that ripping MP3 was copywrite breach?
damn, I'm glad I use Truecrypt 
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| 05-27-2008 02:58 AM |
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RE: Own an MP3 player? be afraid...
and its worse in the USA: didnt the RIAA try to get it so that ripping MP3 was copywrite breach?
The US is getting more obtuse about such things by the day--there was recently some discussion about having customs officials having the right to search your laptop.
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| 05-27-2008 06:28 AM |
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and its worse in the USA: didnt the RIAA try to get it so that ripping MP3 was copywrite breach?
The US is getting more obtuse about such things by the day--there was recently some discussion about having customs officials having the right to search your laptop.
yup. the would ask you to sign into it, or they would just confiscate it.
they were also imaging the HDDs.
Truecrypt, anyone?
remember, Citizen; Have your Papers out and ready!
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| 05-27-2008 06:35 AM |
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I wonder what they would do for music that was under a creative commons license or which I composed.......
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| 05-27-2008 08:36 AM |
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I wonder what they would do for music that was under a creative commons license or which I composed.......
"prove it".
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| 05-27-2008 10:10 AM |
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normally it makes them very nervous to find files they don't know
They'd ask you "where do have this from?" "what do you need it for?"
"why do you have it?" Why don't you collaborate with us if you have nothing to hide?"
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| 05-27-2008 10:22 AM |
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RE: Own an MP3 player? be afraid...
normally it makes them very nervous to find files they don't know
They'd ask you "where do have this from?" "what do you need it for?"
"why do you have it?" Why don't you collaborate with us if you have nothing to hide?"
judging by the average security guard, they are not going to recognise .ogg, .FLAC, or .BAT...so save your MP3's, write a .bat to rename them as .oggs, when you want to play them, run the .bat, and huzzah! *** you,RIAA!
or, you know, just bloody use .ogg and .flac. smaller, and higher quality
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| 05-27-2008 10:36 AM |
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True, but not everyone knows how to use .bat files. (Me.)
Though, I do like .ogg files.
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Yes, please do enlighten us on .bat and .ogg.
This sucks, too, since my MP3 player broke before I could put the songs on my computer, and my sister has many the same songs, and I was hoping to get a copy from her rather than re-buy them.
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RE: Own an MP3 player? be afraid...
One idea I saw a while back:
Image your harddrive and compress+encrypt it
Upload to Amazon S3 or another nice big online storage service
Re-install OS on your laptop
When you reach your destination, re-download the image
Or......
If you have plenty of free space, just image the drive, encrypt it and put it away somewhere on the laptop again after your fresh OS installation.
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| 07-24-2008 02:38 PM |
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And score another one for the nanny state!
Remember, every time their power to enact "social programs" is extended, governments take that as permission to extend their power in other areas.
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| 07-24-2008 02:41 PM |
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There's no way that would get ratified with our upcoming president and congress.
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And score another one for the nanny state!
Remember, every time their power to enact "social programs" is extended, governments take that as permission to extend their power in other areas.
This kind of crap doesn't ride in on the back of social programs -- it's all about "protecting us from terrorists,"
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| 07-24-2008 10:14 PM |
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RE: Own an MP3 player? be afraid...
There's no way that would get ratified with our upcoming president and congress.
By "our" do you mean the United States? If so, you are very likely wrong.
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| 07-24-2008 10:15 PM |
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There's no way that would get ratified with our upcoming president and congress.
By "our" do you mean the United States? If so, you are very likely wrong.
Yes, the only "our" that matters. 
McCain won't do it. Hillary would. Obama Might. I admit, I know less about Obama than I should. The Senate is not in post 9/11 unilaterality' anymore, so something this big could not slip past them so easily. The house.. Who cares about them. What's your impression?
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