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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
The "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" proposal is allegedly that you are to be banned from the Internet for life if you are accused of copyright violation three times. I can't find the actual text of the ACTA -- which is apparently by design, as most of the references I found refer to it as a treaty being negotiated in secret.
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Though oddly enough, it's not much stricter than many US laws; you can be
imprisoned for filing a counterclaim to an accusation of a copyright violation and you lose the case.
I uploaded a video that had 10 seconds of a Metallica song on it to Facebook as part of the Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional earlier and filed a counterclaim on site so I could hear the announcer. If record labels took me to court and argued my interpretation of fair use laws, as arcane as they are, were incorrect, and the judge agreed... I wouldn't be on Delphi so much.
Cool, huh.