we've gotten a lot of the emails about is the trans-pacific partnership in
they've been hesitant to talk about it because their isn't a lot of information
out there about it so just tell you what we do know still leaked information
uh... denied states is partnering up with countries including australia
canada and japan
and their site is something at
that's kind of hidden
under a free trade agreement and basically under this free trade
agreement there would be a section that would pass this law that would help
protect companies from copyright infringement
and is very similar to what we've heard when it comes to soak up here's one
thing that's very very clear about this
these governments are being very very quiet about it and everything is on the
down low
so that in another itself makes me realize that something sketchy is going
on
all the information that we do know has been lied to us and they're several type
web sites that are writing about it just to give you a little more brought
information about it under the transpacific partnership
three-strike policies and laws that require internet intermediaries to
terminate their users internet access on repeat allegations of copyright
infringement seems very similar to sell but requirements for internet
intermediaries to filter all internet communications for potentially club
infringing material
again very similar to the so pat
and finally highest p obligations to block access to websites that allegedly
in french or facilitate copyright infringement
and there's one more actually efforts to force intermediaries to disclose
identities of their customers to high q_ rights holders
on an allegation of copyright infringement
again all of this sounds very very similar to soak up and i know that this
would happen by the way they're trying to pass these laws under of free trade
agreement
there's hardly any
free-trade obstacles between the united states and the countries that i listed
earlier canada japan australia
there are no barriers or if they're are barriers they are very few barrier so
the fact that they're doing this under free trade agreement
is also very sketchy especially because some of the provision would enable like
for for example the pharmaceutical industries to have longer copyright
protections on some other drugs
there things specifically in this that are the exact opposite free-trader
actually increasing the amount of like
regulation of the transfer of products and technology and things like that
um... the as the the greatest coverage of the stuff out so far was in the
guardian
and they made clear that they believe that the reason that this the new
version of some of the elements of so carbon caps laid under this uh... this
new packages because when something is labeled as free trade it's very
difficult specially america to come out in opposition to exactly what i seem to
be a a protectionist or anything like that
and so they're going to be able to
encapsulating his new copyright infringement provision under a much
bigger package deal
and we're gonna focus more on that part because you know we're scared about the
possibility of greater regulation of of materials in the internet but there are
left under a different scary things in here like i said about the
pharmaceutical industries
the fact that um... their copyrights to be protected for up to fourteen years
some of the pushing for for a long time in uh... and entry online what that
means for you as a consumer right they want to prevent generic versions of
their drugs from
going on the market
and the generic versions are the versions that most americans can afford
soledad obvious is gonna have a negative impact on you
but the part of this that i'm most worried about is you know we look at the
elements of this agreement they are very similar to sofa and what does that mean
for websites like google you know search engines like google what does it mean
for face book
does that mean that somebody posts
uh... a link that contains copyrighted material
and dot website has to shut down shut down your page do you get banned from
the internet as specified in when i was mentioning before those are all very
problematic
and i'd feel like
the worst part about this is there was a little bit more transparency with sofa
so we were able to find out our fight against it but in this case since it's
so under wraps and people are kind of unaware that it's under the radar you
know i think they're gonna have how much easier time passing this type of thing i
think that we will have an easier time i don't know that me and i'll be able to
pass health
you shouldn't be too scared about the fact that we don't have attire details
about a that sounds conspiratorial and kind of scary but dieser is a
multilateral like dick negotiations going on in countries aren't supposed to
be leaking too much information
but the fact that starting points out
uh... top executives of general electric goldman sachs fires are other companies
like this very likely do you have
much more information about this deal then
the members of relevant congressional committees that's a little bit scarier
but i would say that while we are we have a problem especially cuz we pay so
much attention politics at the press is the sometimes that most people don't
needs these things happen that affect them and they don't know about it
this is the one area where i think that the internet
and particularly communities on read it have been the best informing people
about immobilize in them
in a position to soap up for instance
and so i would imagine that
if people are too distracted by the r_n_c_ in that the d_n_c_ that
this will actually get a lot of coverage at least on the internet you might see
some push back before it moves too far towards being completed i definitely see
this is something that will be on red its radar uh... hot i have read about
this on boeing boeing which is kind of strange
it's unconventional source
media right it's not something that you hear about in the mainstream
but that's kind of two it kind of goes to show my point
that when it comes to this kind in news that has to do with your rights on the
internet
um... you usually get it from like these fringe websites amassing boeing boeing
is a fridge website that you get what i was extremely not a mainstream italic
a_b_c_ news dot com got some msnbc dot com anything like that
uh... another thing they wanna make sure you guys were aware of is there's oxley
no sign of due process
so um... if you are accused of linking to or including copyright material on
your website
if you just shut it down without any due process and that's another huge issue
with this very similar to what we saw with sofa spend it with just two less
twelve points whether scariest things about this is that
while the very difficult have something like soap again on some people's radar
uh... trade negotiations like this are particular problematic because they
can't force congress to comply with the trade negotiations and services
circumvent going to congress
but finally i think it's interesting that once again we might end up having
to rely on wiki leaks so just foreign policy
eyes offering a reward that's currently at least at twenty one thousand dollars
to anybody who can get a copy we feel it's for distribution
which i think is excited