The politicians wants to send people back to dark ages of information! One bone of contention with TPP is that it would prohibit temporary storage of works in electronic form. What this means to the average person, among other things, is that YouTube videos wouldnt run as smoothly. Every time a user watches a video, a temporary file is downloaded to the individuals computer, allowing for better viewing. No one knows exactly what legal effect this would have on internet users, but Electronic Frontier Foundation considers the provision to be needless regulation. Its hard to argue the opposite, as the creation of temporary files—including caching web pages and the temporary files stored by your browser—are essential to viewing pretty much anything on our devices. The trade agreements copyright provisions would also extend copyright terms from life-of-the-author plus 50 years to 70 years. This, of course, benefits few aside from publishers, and other corporate owners of content. So, if an author writes a book at 30 years old, and lives until the ripe old age of 90, then that book wouldnt transfer into the public domain for 130 years, which is absurd and counter-productive to education and culture. motherboard.vice/blog/congress-could-shut-public-out-of-internet-regulation-treaty-talks
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:36:03 +0000
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