[vox] TPP "Corporate Coup d'État" and copyright anti circumvention measures

[Brian E. Lavender]

Check this story on DemocracyNow on TPP.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/ralph_nader_on_bernie_sanders_the

A leaked chapter of the TPP proposes to restrict copyright anti
circumvention measures1[1]. If you look at what we do with GNU/Linux, you
see cases where GNU/Linux is discriminated against or outlawed. First
case is the Netflix running on GNU/Linux. Up until recently, you couldn't
run netflix on your linux distro. And, even now, you have to use Chrome
or WINE to run it.  The reason I can think Netflix doesn't support
GNU/LInux is there is that users can better control the information and
if they decide they could illegally restribute it they could do so more
easily. GNU/Linux users don't usually work with their hands tied behind
their back. Second case I can think of is the DeCSS code and it's use
to view DVDs on GNU/Linux. With DeCSS, you don't have to watch the FBI
warning. It made DVDs watchable the way GNU/Linux users want to watch
them. Yet, I seem to recall the threat that the author of DeCSS could
have gone to jail for code that you can print on a T-shirt. I think these
illustrated the dangers of DMCA and TPP moves to takes these measures
to new levels.

I encourage everyone to write their representative to oppose the fast track of TPP.
It's a slippery slope!
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

[1] https://www.eff.org/document/leaked-tpp-intellectual-property-chapter-may-2014

brian
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture