/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>6765458
People like you argued vehemently in the early days of ACTA that it would not amount to anything. And did that again for DMCA prior to that. Yet, both influenced the content of many websites.

You have not applied the concept of unintended consequences as well as the slippery slope of rules. US law enforcement has already creatively used homeland security laws in otherwise unintended ways including the no-warrant wiretap statutes. Each new restrictive law or treaty affects criminals, but also unrelated people in previously unintended ways. If you give law enforcement tools, they will use them. ACTA itself doesn't specify porn, but it is obvious that almost all the unofficial sites with porn images are copyright violations (no display of express permission). Therefore, ACTA could easily be used to shut down hentai sites by anti-porn activists and that has nothing to do with counterfeiting or copyright violations. The department of homeland security has stated that sites linking to a lot of copyright violations may have their domain name seized and this has yet to be overturned by a court. It is not a far step for the gov't to command the CPUs off for downloaders; after all, if it was a mistake, the users could contact the gov't to have them turned on again (if they dared to risk arrest that is).