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Here's Wikileaks' coverage:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_int...

Maybe it's worth toying with the idea of setting up a private ISP—a pre-emptive underground? This situation is absolutely ridiculous.

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As I understand it, you'd still have to buy transfer from a tier 1 provider, who'd cut you at the first sign of pressure from the federal government. Logistically, how would one go about doing this?

You could start another internet. Wouldn't be very useful at the beginning, though.

I don't think you guys get that this law affects how you provide access to a communications network. It doesn't matter if you have your own service provider or network, you are still going to have to comply with the laws. The entire point of this treaty is to hold the provider accountable for how people use their services.

Well, what if this new network has no notion of provider ? I mean, would it work with a peer-to-peer network ?

sure, how are you going to link computers together?

the only way that i can see this working is a NCLB improvised device-to-device network, which is actually a great idea that the tech giants are terrified of because they want to keep their proprietary lockdowns on everything

sure, how are you going to link computers together?

One Big Mesh.

Mind you, getting it set up would be a, um, non-trivial exercise.

isn't that what i said? :) Maybe I was vague in my NCLB description

Encrypt everything, and disguise it as public domain work?

Works great until encryption outside of "safe harbor"-approved banking sites is outlawed.

We'll have to steganographically-encode our data in a nearly infinite set of exchanged lolcat jpegs.

That coverage looks like it is from an earlier leak of the same negotiations. Look at the date.

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