Intellectual Property | Yes we can! (Stop the download?)

Is Obama administration support during the record companies and movie downloads on the Internet becomes the Justice Ministry to sow the RIAA?

Amit Cokarstein, April 2009

President Obama stated during the inauguration role he promises a new era of openness. Public bodies and nonprofit organizations for the freedom of speech in the U.S. claim that his actions indicate the opposite.

Obama administration announced in mid-March on the preparatory documents of the Convention to prevent counterfeiting trade (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) documents are classified ("Properly Classified" National Security Secret), after the organization Knowledge Ecology International, contact the government obtained under freedom of information. Set the document as confidential for national security is quite strange given that the information accessible civilian representatives from 34 countries who will be companies that the Convention and particularly the document has no bearing on U.S. national security. According to various bodies of information is the reason to hide the extremes of the Convention which would make file sharing a criminal offense, would require ISPs to track users actions and allow searching for PDA border control.

In addition, in early April, the lawyer appointed Jan Gershgorn top job Deputy Assistant Attorney Civil Division of the U.S. Ministry of Justice.

This appointment is at least 7 in a series of appointments of lawyers who represented the record companies, movies and legal struggles senior positions in the Justice Department by the Obama administration: Read more