In South Korea. loading the next, already the sixth round of negotiations on the shape of the international agreement on combating copyright violations - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. According to the information they leak into the media that the talks relate primarily to force the Internet service providers greater oversight of content transmitted in the facilities offered by them.
Negotiations on the agreement Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was initiated in 2007, the United States, inviting them to participate in selected countries, including Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, Korea, New Zealand or Japan, and representing 27 countries of the EU Commission. As we read on the U.S. Office of U.S. Trade Representative - http://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/intellectual-property/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta, the aim of negotiations is to develop a new, as far as possible the current agreement the fight against infringements of intellectual property and piracy. ACTA aims to help governments of countries around the world in a more effective fight against the distribution of illegal and pirated goods.

The negotiations have been secret from the beginning - the participants not to disclose the content of discussions these proposals. In May 2008, at Wikileaks - http://wikileaks.org/wiki/proposed_us_acta_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_ (2007) appeared in a document entitled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, passed a few months earlier as" a chosen lobbyists in the intellectual property protection. " The document outlines proposals for changes in legislation which would come into force upon signature of the ACTA treaty.

The commentary contained in the document proposed Vaglovsky Peter, author of the blog, wrote: "One of the proposals is the introduction of the principle that law enforcement can begin to act ex officio, or with the law. Today, crimes such as copyright law requires the appropriate application for the prosecution, which consist entitled.'s proposal goes in that direction, therefore, to further harness the state apparatus to prosecute violations of intellectual property rights (that is the next step after that, as the burden of protection "intellectual property" was gradually transferred from the sphere of civil Criminal Law, and now it is proposed to automate the prevention of criminal activities. "

The content of the Treaty had a chance to see - http://www.keionline.org/node/660 representatives of some companies and organizations, including Intel, eBay, Google, Verizon, Dell, Sony Pictures, Time Warner, and the Business Software Alliance. However, they had to sign a pledge not to disclose the information contained therein.

Although the talks in Korea, are turned in secret to the media leaked the information - http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html about their subject. The negotiations appeared to include proposals to the ISP actively monitor the materials posted or made available online by customers and cut off access to Web users accused of infringement of intellectual property under the threat of legal liability.

It is therefore a de facto global proposal to introduce the principle of "three warnings", although the European Parliament gave a clear in the past to understand that such methods are unacceptable. Nor can we forget that almost at the same time as the Korean negotiations, conciliation commission in Brussels, held on the telecom package found that cutting off users from the Internet will be possible only in specific cases.

In Korea, has also been postulated to prevent the distribution of digital technologies for removal of copy protection - DRM systems.

In accordance with the regulations still in force Internet providers are not liable for actions customers (for example, sharing of pirated files on the Web). Meanwhile, the signing of the ACTA treaty will enable companies representing the entertainment industry joining the lawsuit, also against an ISP operators (for having failed to prevent piracy within their network).

Michael Geist, a Canadian professor of law, often speaking on ACTA - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/, said: "This agreement on intellectual property, and is treated as atomic secrets. It is unusual that a treaty affecting the lives of millions of people are negotiated in such secrecy. " Researcher also notes that the negotiations are not involved countries generally regarded as a state with the highest piracy (such as Russia or China) and warns that once the substance of the agreement by the signatories of the other countries will be exerted pressure to introduce ACTA also at home.

Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-, organization of protection of civil rights and promoting the ideas of free Internet, in the commentary to these reports , commented on the "leaks confirm everything that you feared in connection with the secret negotiations on the ACTA." According to EFF, the Treaty provisions have nothing to do with counterfeit goods (counterfeit) - As they contain only the imposition of stringent standards for copyright protection.