Some people around clean tables think that eJoy should be submitted to a more efficient monitoring:Since Spring 2008, the EU, the US, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries have been secretly negotiating a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, 'ACTA').
Specifically, leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty would be to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies. Worries are as follows:
-the Acta legal framework could result in "large scale monitoring of internet users" and
- in the international imposition of 'three strikes' laws, such as that recently passed in France, which cuts off internet access of people accused of illegal downloading, and consequently
- flouts agreed EU laws on counterfeiting and piracy online.
Adaptation of copyright to the digital age is economically tricky and this treaty has so far bypassed democratic processes in order to prepare a globalised-regulatory regime of internet.
The French La Quadrature du Net has nevertheless recently leaked a consolidated version of ACTA and members of the European Parliament have expressed their displeasure for having once again been set aside from the negotiations: the official draft text will be finally made public next Wednesday in the EU and in the US.
Some people around clean tables think that running a globalised-Leviathan is particularly exhausting.
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