[d at DCC] [CPI-UA] CBC report on the internet from '93

[Russell McOrmond]

   Notice the ending which set the stage for what has happened in the 
last decade, and is till ongoing.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n4fDgmrF3o

   "US Congressional hearings into the Internet begin next month."

   From that was built the National Information Infrastructure Task 
force, which in 1995 concluded with the NII Copyright Protection Act of 
1995 (S. 1284 and H.R. 2441) http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/

   This didn't get past the politicians who possibly recognized it was a 
bad idea, so the USPTO policy-laundered these bad ideas through WIPO 
which in 1996 came out with the two so-called WIPO "Internet" Treaties. 
  Bringing this false "international consensus" back to the USA they 
then rammed through the DMCA.  Canada has received almost a decade of 
nonsense pressure from the US government and US special interest groups 
to implement this anti-technology bad idea in Canada.

   Please always remember two things when you hear special interests 
saying we should be ratifying these treaties:

   a) Sure, we signed the treaties back when the fax machine was a real 
cool new thing, but are under no legal obligation to ratify.

   The USA has signed an not ratified many treaties, including Kyoto.  I 
suspect the US would be quite offended if Canadian MPs, The Canadian 
Ambassador to the USA and Canadian industry groups started to claim they 
were somehow legally obligated to implement.  While the science debate 
on Kyoto is largely over and in support of Kyoto, the science debate 
around the WIPO treaties is also largely over with the vast majority of 
those who understand the technology being opposed.


   b) While the Internet has moved onward, proponents of the WIPO 
treaties really are stuck back in '93 with little to no understanding of 
how the technology works beyond recognizing that it is different than 
what the legacy industry associations are dependent on.

George Lessard wrote in Universal Access Canada:
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> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: [Air-l] Canadian broadcasting report on the internet from '93
> From:    "Jeremy Hunsinger" 
> Date:    Thu, March 8, 2007 09:15
> To:      air-l  at- @listserv.aoir.org
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n4fDgmrF3o
> 
> very handy for many classes
> jeremy hunsinger
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