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Acta: the treaty that threatens the web

39 states on Tuesday begin new negotiations on a secret agreement to fight against counterfeiting, particularly downloading illegal internet.

Acta. These four letters are thrilled the web. The acronym for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a draft international treaty "counterfeiting", begins its seventh phase of negotiations on Tuesday 26 January to Mexico. Very little information has filtered through previous negotiations, the draft agreement as "business" negotiated between 39 states that have been classified "top secret" by the United States. However, according to a document published by the European Commission Wikileaks, the Acta have two parts: the first on pharmaceuticals and counterfeiting, and a second on measures to fight against violations of copyright. This is especially the measures envisaged in this second part of concern to Internet users. If negotiations are held in a large opacity, one certainty remains: Acta intends to cure the international law on intellectual property issues.

"Our objective remains to conclude the treaty this year"

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Nouvelobs.com Contacted by a European Commission source, close to the negotiations, outlines the agenda for the next few days "on Tuesday they will address the issues Civil Wednesday on measures for customs, Thursday on the issues Internet and digital, it's Friday and on other subjects and the possibility to make public the draft agreement. He said that Acta will not be finalized this Friday. "A next round of negotiations is already expected mid-April in New Zealand. But our objective remains to conclude the treaty this year. " around the table together" several technical representatives from each country. For the countries of the European Union, the negotiator and his team are measures undertaken by the European Commission, except for criminal matters which is the rotating EU president takes over. "By cons, autour de la table : "aucune entreprise ou association, uniquement des représentants d'Etat".

Cette source tient à préciser que "le dernier jour des négociations verra un communiqué officiel" et qu'"avant la conclusion de l'accord, le texte sera mis à disposition".

"Un prolongement de la loi Hadopi" Concrètement, pour Internet, l'Acta envisage d'imposer des mesures de filtrage du web à l'échelle mondiale, mais aussi l'instauration d'une riposte graduée généralisée (à l'image d'Hadopi), ainsi que des droits accrus pour les douaniers qui pourraient vérifier les ordinateurs et autre baladeurs pour vérifier qu'ils ne contiennent no content violates the rights of authors.

The main problem is that Acta would authorize the disconnection of Internet access and search the computers to go through customs without a judge, which is still illegal in France and has already created problems for the web laws. Asked by Nouvelobs.com

, Aurélien Boch Odebi League member, sees the Acta "an extension of the web laws by trying to make digital counterfeiting reprehensible." League moves Odebi categorically "against global strikes" but also "against the fact that customs officers can open and search computers in without recourse to a judge."

"The biggest threat to our freedoms"

Jeremiah Zimmerman, spokesman and co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, it is concerned particularly measures of filtering. "Acta expects that Internet operators are responsible for the content hosted by them, and may the courts if such content is protected" by copyright, says he to Nouvelobs.com. "Operators [access providers, video sharing sites, blogs ...] would become police auxiliaries." ISPs and other operators would be forced to introduce filtering claimed by the authorities. Under
of anonymity, a European negotiator at point.fr confirmed that "indirect responsibility of technical intermediaries" is discussed because "a huge amount of pirated content transiting their network." It states that ISPs are thus forced to "react when their reports entitled an offense" and "monitor their network."
Jérémie Zimmermann, "is the biggest threat to our freedoms and it is chilling ..." "A real danger to freedom of expression"

Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders expressed its deep concern "over the eventual treaty "whose actions represent a real danger to freedom of expression." RSF urges European Union and to explain "the measures that would seriously threaten Internet freedom." Even

demand side of Deputies. In late December, the member of the Essonne and President of the Republic Standing, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, demanded that "the development of the Acta is freely accessible to our citizens and the other [about] the position of the France on this issue. " So he called the foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, to speak on this subject. An application unheeded ...

In this secret, the League Odebi sees "a way to bypass the legislature," said Aurelian Boch. "The U.S. wants to impose the ratification of ACTA by the executive powers, like the European directives."

"Nothing will be done outside the rules and existing rights"

"Acta is a crucial treaty," said Lucie Morillon, head of Internet issues in RSF. "If adopted in the present state of things, it would have serious implications for freedom of expression and information. Ultimately, the Acta can change the face of the Internet," she says . "This is a treaty that deserves a democratic debate, "she says, committed.
For reviews of the fears for freedom on the Internet, the European Commission source close to the negotiations conceded just" Internet is the question of balance. The Internet is a acquis communautaire but not outside the law. While many pirated content flowing, nothing will be done outside the rules and rights that already exist.

(Boris Manenti-Nouvelobs.com)