Imagine traveling and having your iPod and labtop searched by police looking for stolen content. In reality, it’s no different buying goods at a Wholesale Club. Upon exiting the door, security guards will look at your receipt for the proof of purchases. If something is in your shopping cart that is not shown on the receipt you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a new plan that could see Canada joining other countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, to form an international coalition against copyright infringement.
The deal could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police. “The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that infringes” on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies.”
“Anyone found with infringing content in their possession would be open to a fine. They may also have their device confiscated or destroyed, according to the four-page document.”
“This government is working both at home and internationally to protect the intellectual property rights of Canadian artists, creators, inventors and investors.” Read the full article here.
Sometimes the government has to go to extreme measures to protect the ‘creators of content’ from thieves, and because of thieves the international copyright laws must be revamped.
100% supporter.It dosen’t take a lot of talent to make a hit song from past a hit today. But at least credit the people whos lives and emotions your reproducing.
You have the logic of someone who barely graduated high school, or perchance, graduated from some low level state college (like me). Is everyone in the music industry as stubborn as you? People who can actually afford to fly in today’s economic climate will probably not be the target 13-28 year old demographic of music pirates. How will these people get past computer passwords? iPod screen locks? How is this not a violation of privacy? How do they know that I don’t actually own the music that is on my computer?
I care dearly for intellectual property but individual privacy is much more important then this.
Yeah — good luck with that.
if the internet has changed things, what makes you think other things are exempt from change? It’s a cause and effect scenario.
I read the whole article and it just doesn’t come down to air travel. In NYC, amtrak riders are subject to random searches something that didn’t exist prior to 9/11. Because of terrorism , privacy has suffered – and more individual privacy may suffer because of copyright infringement that costs industries billions of dollars.
You really didn’t think life would move on as is…did you???
This is just the beginning ladies!
Ok…what is the Probable Cause to do this? You can’t “look” like an illegal downloader. The US gov’t claims that you can’t even stop someone in a Turban at the airport without reason, how can you stop some teen with an Ipod?
Also…privacy hasn’t suffered since 9/11. Americans have begged for the limitation or repeal of the 2nd Amendment for decades…therefore we should have no reason to complain when the 1st and 4th are treated in the same manner. We as a society have allowed overlegislation to run unchecked for decades. Our ancestors had revolts and Tea Parties…what will our society do? Nothing. Post a video on You Tube? Won’t change a thing. Rhetoric never secured liberty absent of action.
will there really be any need to travel outside of Oceania?
Also, please keep your comments in line with proper new-speak. privacy is not understood in new-speak.
Could you imagine having some underpaid border guard checking your stuff for infringement? How would they even be able to tell what you’ve download from Limewire or what you purchased from Amazon?
I agree with Deen… we’ve lost so many freedoms over the past years under the guise of protecting us from Drug Dealers and now from Terrorist.
I’m going to take a pretty good guess and say it’s impossible for a guard to tell the difference between a song that was legally downloaded for free versus an illegal song. This isn’t a real solution to the piracy problem.
As usual, the people working on this plan just don’t understand the issues… they don’t understand that this is a COPYING problem & not a STEALING problem. It’s impossible to tell what files are legitimate & what files are copies. The only way to combat this problem is by catching people in the act.