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Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.
(a) Purpose- The objectives of the Joint Strategic Plan against counterfeiting and piracy that is referred to in section 301(c)(1)(A) (in this section referred to as the `joint strategic plan') are the following:
(1) Reducing counterfeit and pirated goods in the domestic and international supply chain.
(2) Identifying and addressing structural weaknesses, systemic flaws, or other unjustified impediments to effective enforcement action against the financing, production, trafficking, or sale of counterfeit or pirated goods.
(3) Assuring that information is identified and shared among the relevant departments and agencies, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with law enforcement protocols for handling information, to aid in the objective of arresting and prosecuting individuals and entities that are knowingly involved in the financing, production, trafficking, or sale of counterfeit or pirated goods.
(4) Disrupting and eliminating domestic and international counterfeiting and piracy networks.
(5) Strengthening the capacity of other countries to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, and reducing the number of countries that fail to enforce laws preventing the financing, production, trafficking, and sale of counterfeit and pirated goods.
(6) Working with other countries to establish international standards and policies for the effective protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
(7) Protecting intellectual property rights overseas by--
(A) working with other countries to ensure that such countries--
(i) have adequate and effective laws protecting copyrights, trademarks, patents, and other forms of intellectual property;
(ii) have legal regimes that enforce their own domestic intellectual property laws, eliminate counterfeit and piracy operations, and arrest and prosecute those who commit intellectual property crimes;
(iii) provide their law enforcement officials with the authority to seize, inspect, and destroy pirated and counterfeit goods, including at ports of entry; and
(iv) provide for the seizure of property used to produce pirated and counterfeit goods;
(B) exchanging information with appropriate law enforcement agencies in other countries relating to individuals and entities involved in the financing, production, trafficking, or sale of pirated or counterfeit goods;
(C) using the information described in subparagraph (B) to conduct enforcement activities in cooperation with appropriate law enforcement agencies in other countries; and
(D) building a formal process for consulting with companies, industry associations, labor unions, and other interested groups in other countries with respect to intellectual property enforcement.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by emsed1
I thought you were a huge Alex Jones fan!
I am not sure what to think of you now.
Originally posted by Tapped In
reply to post by emsed1
You wreak of sarcasm...
Originally posted by emsed1
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by emsed1
[quote/]I love Alex Jones whenever he starts the 'crazy talk' about something I agree with.
We have a lot in common, I think.
I am pretty sure he likes girls too.
I have listened to him before. Not a long time listener but occasionaly. I have to agree with you. Sometimes its very informative. Sometimes I need Tylenol after the show!!!
Zindo
Originally posted by drwizardphd
I don't profess to be a technology whiz, but even if Uncle Sam decided to drop an e-patriot act to ruin the internet, wouldn't we still be able to connect through "underground" isp's and possibly international isp's to the good old unfiltered version?
I mean, the American government can't stop the internet. No one can. All anyone could really do would be to ban the hardware that connects to the existing internet, shut down servers on American soil (the ones they can find), and tightly control all of the isp's and what they offer.
Hackers and Pirates always seem to be two steps ahead of the government/corporations, so it would be only a matter of time before the "black internet" comes about.
I guess they forgot to put the part about a virtual '911' and 'iPat' in there.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
I guess they forgot to put the part about a virtual '911' and 'iPat' in there.
Maybe you didn't red the article?
It said that this legislation, HR 4279 , was already submitted, but it was not the ``i-patriot act`` that would be forced after an i-911. It's something that we do not have the text of yet.
And I agree that internet is hard to restrict, but if they switch us all to Internet 2, they can govern it like a ``private website`` like Facebook, and if the info you post isn't allowed, it's deleted as it would be in facebook if you post for example porn.
[edit on 5-8-2008 by Vitchilo]
Originally posted by drwizardphd
I don't profess to be a technology whiz, but even if Uncle Sam decided to drop an e-patriot act to ruin the internet, wouldn't we still be able to connect through "underground" isp's and possibly international isp's to the good old unfiltered version?
I mean, the American government can't stop the internet. No one can. All anyone could really do would be to ban the hardware that connects to the existing internet, shut down servers on American soil (the ones they can find), and tightly control all of the isp's and what they offer.
Hackers and Pirates always seem to be two steps ahead of the government/corporations, so it would be only a matter of time before the "black internet" comes about.