Results 1 to 7 of 7
-
01-23-2012, 10:12 AM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
- Join Date
- Jan 2004
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Posts
- 450
How will ACTA affect the web hosting industry?
Here's a video on what it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
Hopefully others have been following this and can bring the group up to speed.
-ChristianChristian Dawson Exectuive Director and Co-Founder, i2Coalition
The i2Coalition is comprised of small to medium cloud providers, data centers, registrars, registries and other foundational Internet enterprises. Join today!
Follow us on Twitter @i2coalition or checkout our forum!
-
01-26-2012, 04:05 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
- Join Date
- Jan 2004
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Posts
- 450
This seems like a good resource for anyone not fully up to speed on ACTA (like myself!). Here's the
link: https://www.accessnow.org/acta-overview
It does indeed look like it'd affect hosting providers pretty directly, in similar ways that PIPA & SOPA would.Christian Dawson Exectuive Director and Co-Founder, i2Coalition
The i2Coalition is comprised of small to medium cloud providers, data centers, registrars, registries and other foundational Internet enterprises. Join today!
Follow us on Twitter @i2coalition or checkout our forum!
-
02-20-2012, 10:12 PM #3Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jan 2011
- Location
- Canada
- Posts
- 938
It probably helps to step back and realize the difference between a plurilateral agreements, multilateral agreements, and law.
You can't compare it apples to apples to PIPA/SOPA.
Read the agreement
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade...5-2011_eng.pdf
That's the best resource for ACTA. The AccessNow pamphlet did make me giggle though, especially about when it went on about how undemocratic an ACTA Committee would be compared to the WIPO/WTO.
I'm not blind though, it does affect hosting providers who have otherwise relied on the belief that legal disparities between countries have acted as a barrier for copyright holders to 'make a presence' in another country. With ACTA, the barriers are lower and the normalization of laws avoid *weird* black hole situations, likely allowing more uptake of legal action across borders. You still deal with your own legal system, along with its own set of due-process and privacy laws which ACTA cannot override.
-
02-21-2012, 12:45 PM #4Junior Guru
- Join Date
- Dec 2009
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Posts
- 203
ACTA isnt SOPA.
Countries sign to ACTA, however it's up to the goverment of the country how they implement ACTA. ACTA isn't a set of laws.
Once signed up to ACTA, the country then attempts to pass its own laws to enforce it, of course these can be blocked.
So let's stop the ACTA is SOPA. Most of it comes out of the recent confusion.
ACTA isn't just online, it's also a whole lot about fake goods, so a lot of ACTA is to make you less likely to buy counterfeit goods, which is a good thing right?
But certainly the Internet part of the ACTA treaty has issues, you can't govern the Internet, because its not a single place or entity, not to mention its an open system, if you close one, someone can easily make another.
So ACTA itself isn't going to affect you, however the way your country implements it might.
-
03-04-2012, 07:45 PM #5Disabled
- Join Date
- Jan 2012
- Posts
- 5
Well the UK have signed up to ACTA with out having 1 debate in the house of commons about it >.<
-
03-05-2012, 02:37 AM #6Junior Guru
- Join Date
- Dec 2009
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Posts
- 203
-
03-07-2012, 09:44 AM #7Newbie
- Join Date
- Feb 2012
- Posts
- 15
In Germany politicians are still discussing about whether to sign or not. There have been lots of demonstrations to prevent the German government to sign ACTA. Hopefully, the voice of the peole is loud enough to prevent ACTA..
Similar Threads
-
Will changing hosting company affect ranking in web search
By LaRataMamey in forum Web HostingReplies: 19Last Post: 05-20-2012, 12:55 PM -
ACTA text released. Disturbing for Web Hosts and Providers
By unity100 in forum Web Hosting LoungeReplies: 9Last Post: 05-07-2011, 04:00 PM -
Does the Global financial crisis affect hosting industry?
By greatandrew in forum Web HostingReplies: 39Last Post: 01-13-2009, 11:18 AM -
Tlc. Opp. Bill, How it will affect Web Hosting, Google CEO's Opinion on the matter
By unity100 in forum Running a Web Hosting BusinessReplies: 0Last Post: 06-09-2006, 07:09 AM -
How will Visa/MC's regulations on 3rd party processors affect the industry?
By zakboca in forum Running a Web Hosting BusinessReplies: 10Last Post: 08-10-2004, 10:16 PM