20.07.2013 - 02:27 [ rabble ]

Big Media’s push for extreme new Internet censorship rules stalls secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks

Reports from Malaysia indicate that the TPP talks are stalled over five key issues – including a key chapter on copyright and Intellectual Property rights that would censor and criminalize Internet use. This is not good news for Big Media lobbyists, who are demanding the TPP include extreme new copyright rules that could end the open Internet as we know it. Big Media is spending a fortune on lobbying as they try to shore up an old-fashioned, high-cost command and control media business model that no longer makes sense in the Internet age.