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"The controversial agreement, which opponents say was conducted behind closed doors, aimed to fight against counterfeiting at international level through greater co-ordination of anti-counterfeiting measures and tougher enforcement."
WSJ is a great place for propaganda and framing it wrong.
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I agree. This cat and mouse game between lawmakers and the people is quite exhausting. If it isn't SOPA, it's PIPA, CISPA, ACTA... and they'll just keep coming until one of them makes it into law. I think we should be focusing our power into pushing for legislation that prevents these kinds of bills to be passed, rather than fighting them off time and time again.
The only way to limit what congress can do is with a constitutional amendment. Anything else, and they can just overwrite it.
Thats great. But I smell a slight of hand trick here. Lead the audiences attention away while you stuff cards down your sleeve. Stay wary, stay vigilant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Econom...
http://pirateparty.org.au/2012/03/04/pirate-party-australias...
But USA changed the program to exclude public submissions: http://pirateparty.org.au/2012/04/05/tppa-negotiation-farce-...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/cispa-supporters-list-800-c...
So they can talk all they want... its still the same kind of thinking in the system. Dirty old men wanting to get more power.
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The only way to limit what congress can do is with a constitutional amendment. Anything else, and they can just overwrite it.
Yes and no. It's true that you can't just have Congress pass a law that says "future Congresses can't do xyz," because future Congresses can just repeal it. But you can do something even better. Pass legislation that takes a step in the other direction. Repeal the DMCA anti-circumvention clause and demand an international treaty that requires other countries to do likewise. Reduce copyright terms. Eliminate statutory…
The conference where she delivered the speech was at the re:publica in Berlin ( http://re-publica.de/12/ ). I've seen her talk in entirety on Friday, and I was deeply impressed with her opinions. Usually, when politicians (particularly older politicians) talk about Internet topics, their opinion is mingled with half-knowledge and the hope to enslave the internet and make it a read-only thing. However, Kroess' speeach…
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a854010e-dd84-11db-8d42-000b5df106...
I think we first were a bit disappointed that she was no longer keeping businesses on the straight and narrow, when she moved from competition to the digital agenda: it seemed like she was rearranged to a position where she would be less dangerous. In retrospect, that impression might have been wrong, and she might have just decided that keeping the digital world from being corrupted (by roaming fees, broadband prices, copyright agreements) was a more important thing to go after now than business cartels :-).
The conference where she delivered the speech was at the re:publica in Berlin ( http://re-publica.de/12/ ). I've seen her talk in entirety on Friday, and I was deeply impressed with her opinions. Usually, when politicians (particularly older politicians) talk about Internet topics, their opinion is mingled with half-knowledge and the hope to enslave the internet and make it a read-only thing. However, Kroess' speeach…
She's great (or at least the dutch think she is), and did a good job as well when she was commissioner on competition, handing out some big fines to business cartels. see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a854010e-dd84-11db-8d42-000b5df106... I think we first were a bit disappointed that she was no longer keeping businesses on the straight and narrow, when she moved from competition to the digital agenda: it seemed like she…
Thats great. But I smell a slight of hand trick here. Lead the audiences attention away while you stuff cards down your sleeve. Stay wary, stay vigilant.
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She's great (or at least the dutch think she is), and did a good job as well when she was commissioner on competition, handing out some big fines to business cartels. see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a854010e-dd84-11db-8d42-000b5df106... I think we first were a bit disappointed that she was no longer keeping businesses on the straight and narrow, when she moved from competition to the digital agenda: it seemed like she…
I wasn't so happy about her work as competition commissioner. They went very far in the direction of price fixing. For instance, the EC tells telcos what to charge for roaming even though no one can claim that the telecom sector isn't very competitive. It's cut throat actually.
It seems that Kroes only launched the inquiry into telco's as part of her commision on competition. The price regulations came after her time there (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_roaming_reg...)