Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like?” – asked David Fewer, acting director of the University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. “This is pretty close ,”he said, referring to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement agreement, a dirty secret until a version was posted by Wikileaks in May this year. Now, “ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” says the IDG News Service .

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