ACTA: The War on Progress, Freedom, and Human Civilization - Gennady Stolyarov II - Mises Daily

ACTA: The War on Progress, Freedom, and Human Civilization - Gennady Stolyarov II - Mises Daily: "ACTA tramples on essential rights that have achieved even mainstream recognition: innocence until one is proven guilty, due process, personal privacy, and fair use of published content."

"Under ACTA, governments would be able to crack down on the fans of these creators, against those creators' own wishes!" "who would be the rights holder here — individual creators, or governments"

"Under ACTA, the very suspicion or allegation of having downloaded or even accessed copyrighted material online would render one's computer open to search without a warrant. Fines and other penalties would apply to refusing permission for a search" "Under ACTA, even viewing a website containing material that infringes a copyright — without the viewer being aware of said infringement's existence — would be considered aiding and abetting the infringement."

" On July 16, 2010, federal authorities shut down Blogetery.com, a site that hosted 73,000 blogs, under the allegation that some of these blogs reproduced copyrighted material. Any reasonable person will recognize, of course, that most of the blog owners probably committed no violation whatsoever, but millions of hours of human effort were nonetheless wiped out by this new kind of random, arbitrary censorship."