ACTA Treaty Released 205
roju writes "The full text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was released today. It differs from the earlier leaks in that the negotiating stance of each country has been scrubbed. Preliminary analysis is up at Ars, which warns that 'Several sections of the ACTA draft show that rightsholders can obtain an injunction just by showing that infringement is "imminent," even if it hasn't happened yet.'"
Re:Stop being a criminal. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stop being a criminal. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, you don't have to stop being a criminal; what you must stop is to be going to be a criminal.
If you're not going to be a criminal, you've got nothing to fear.
This kind of law is the only way to stop going to be criminals. I hope all going to be criminals go to jail as soon as possible.
What I'm afraid of, now is what can we possibly do against those insidious people who will be going to be criminals in the future.
Think of the going to be going to be criminals! They're going to be going to harm your child! Probably!
Re:Prior restraint? (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly, the MPAA and the RIAA have combined their R&D teams and now have their own Pre-Cog Division headed by Tom Cruise. This treaty will just allow them to operate with support from the law.
Re:Prior restraint? (Score:3, Funny)
"Several sections of the ACTA draft show that rightsholders can obtain an injunction just by showing that infringement is "imminent," even if it hasn't happened yet."
Isn't that called "prior restraint"?
Pre-crime. And your eyeballs are latent copyright infringement devices. They're gonna have to do something about that.
Re:Prior restraint? (Score:1, Funny)
How do you sue someone for "potential infringement"?
Let's see , I'm holding up a Hamer connected to a Marshall stack, and you tell me the words, "Smoke On the Water." And before the buuum buuum baaaa buuum buuum baaaa bah can come out the signal is cut and a lawsuit is deposited into your e-INBOX.