Treaty Threatens Global Government … Run by Giant Corporations
We noted [3] last year:
An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not only crack down on Internet privacy [4] much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories.
It is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
We also noted that even Congressmen are furious [3] that the bill was being kept secret from the American public.
And that the TPP is an anti-American power grab by big corporations [5].
Wikileaks has now leaked the intellectual property chapter of the secret treaty … and it’s as bad as we feared.
Public Citizen explains how the TPP would limit people’s access to affordable medicine [6].
And International Business Times explains [7]:
The TPP’s chapter on IP deals with a host of issues, but its potential impacts on basic Internet freedom and usage are perhaps the ones that would directly impact the most people in the short term. One of the biggest concerns about the agreement raised by the Internet freedom advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation [8] centers around the concept of “temporary copies.” Here’s the text of the relevant section of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter leaked Wednesday:
“Each Party shall provide that authors, performers, and producers of phonograms have the right to authorize or prohibit all reproductions of their works, performances, and phonograms, in any manner or form, permanent or temporary (including temporary storage in electronic form).”
The EFF wrote in a July analysis of the language [9] – which has not been amended in the intervening months — that the provision “reveals a profound disconnect with the reality of the modern computer,” which relies on temporary copies to perform routine operations, during which it must create temporary copies of programs and files in order to carry out basic functions. This is particularly so while a computer is connected to the Internet, when it will use temporary copies to buffer videos, store cache files to ensure websites load quickly and more.
“Since it’s technically necessary to download a temporary version of everything we see on our devices, does that mean—under the US proposed language—that anyone who ever views content on their device could potentially be found liable of infringement?” the EFF wrote. “For other countries signing on to the TPP, the answer would be most likely yes.”
And see this [10].
TPP would literally [5] act to destroy the sovereignty [11] of the U.S. and the other nations [12] which sign the bill.
Postscript: Will the powers-that-be renew their labeling of Wikileaks as criminals [13] for leaking [14] an anti-American bill which would gut our nation’s sovereignty?
Bonus: