Doctorow_3Strikes_Death

toc =Cory Doctorow on the Three Strikes Death Penalty=

=Background=

Three strikes
By now the total inefficiency in preventing copying of traditional DRM has been generally recognized. And so the content industry has thought up a new "anti-piracy" strategy: getting countries to adopt "3-strikes" laws like [|HADOPI] in France: at the third accusation of coypright violation from a rights holder, your internet connection gets cut. But while HADOPI at least foresees that the decision to cut someone's internet connection must be taken by a judge, the Internet Chapter of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeitng Trade Agreement) will apparently exclude this judiciary measure. "Apparently" because ACTA is being elaborated in secret, and what is known about it comes from leaked documents. For more info, see Michael Geist's posts tagged ACTA: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/tags/acta/99999.

Three strikes and people with disabilities
"The disability community should be concerned about [|ACTA] for two reasons: Jim Fruchterman: [|Accessibility and ACTA]. Beneblog. Nov. 15 2009.
 * 1) At its core it’s an anti-piracy agreement. The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy.
 * 2) The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is being negotiated in secret. We don’t know if it’s benign or hostile to accessibility. Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. People with disabilities are repeatedly left out in the cold because accessibility concerns don’t rank high on tech company priority lists. (...)"

=Cory Doctorow's interview= On November 17, 2009, David Weinberger interviewed Cory Doctorow on this "Three Strikes Death Penalty" strategy, in the context of the [|Broadband Strategy Week] project. The interview - dedicated to the public domain - is available in the following formats:

Video:

 * original: http://blip.tv/file/2857773, from which it can be downloaded as .mov or .flv file
 * full version with English, French and Italian subtitles: http://dotsub.com/view/66aa2ced-22ed-4140-b403-fa2905ed1b55 (where it can also be subtitled in other languages, but you'll have to sign in. The player for transcription has keyboard shortcuts)
 * light version (audio + 3 screenshots) with English, French and Italian subtitles:

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Audio
http://accessibility4all.wikispaces.com/file/view/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Three_Strikes_Death_Penalty.mp3

Text
.Transcript of captions/subtitles in .srt file of the English captions, which can be translated to produce subtitles in further languages without signing in to DotSUB:
 * [|English]
 * [|French]
 * [|Italian]
 * http://accessibility4all.wikispaces.com/file/view/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Three_Strikes_Death_Penalty_eng.srt