Include a Media Player in Installation CD / DVD

[Karl Larsen]

On 08/17/2010 01:35 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 15/08/2010 19:27, Yorvyk wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:41:34 +1000
>> Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>   wrote:
>>
>>
>>      
>>> On 15/08/2010 13:21, IdleOne wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Ubuntu comes with Totem as a default as for the codecs, there are legal
>>>> reasons why those codecs are not installed by default and they won't be
>>>> anytime soon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Nor forever - if the terms of the secret negotiations now going on
>>> between nations, and about which they are "sworn" not to discuss or
>>> disclose to their citizens are accepted. I read about this only a day or
>>> so ago but now cannot find the reference to this :-( .
>>>
>>> And it is not a joke.
>>>
>>> I'll see if I can find this article I read and will then post it
>>> probably in sounder.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I think it is ACTA that you’re talking about.
>>
>>      
> Yes, it is the ACTA which I read about and was referring to.
>
> A frightening situation.
>
> 1984 on steroids.
>
> BC
>
>
>    
         Here is what Google brought up with ACTA:

The *Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement* (*ACTA*) is a proposed 
plurilateral agreement 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurilateral_agreement> for the purpose of 
establishing international standards on intellectual property 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property> rights 
enforcement.^[1] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-ec-fact-sheet-nov2008-0> 
ACTA would establish a new international legal framework that countries 
can join on a voluntary basis^[2] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-med.govt.nz-1> 
and would create its own governing body outside existing international 
institutions such as the World Trade Organization 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization> (WTO), the World 
Intellectual Property Organization 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization> 
(WIPO) or the United Nations 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations>.^[1] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-ec-fact-sheet-nov2008-0> 
^[3] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-Pilieci-2> 
Negotiating countries have described it as a response "to the increase 
in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected 
works."^[2] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-med.govt.nz-1> 
The scope of ACTA is broad, including counterfeit 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit> goods, generic 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug> medicines and copyright 
infringement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement> on 
the Internet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet>.^[4] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-ustr-acta-summary-3> 
Because it is in effect a treaty, ACTA would overcome many court 
precedents defining consumer rights as to "fair use" and would either 
change or remove limitations on the application of intellectual property 
laws.

After a series of draft text leaks in 2008, 2009 and 2010 the 
negotiating parties published the official version of the current draft 
<http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2010/april/tradoc_146029.pdf> on 
20 April 2010.^[5] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#cite_note-first-official-public-draft-4> 
The idea to create a plurilateral agreement on counterfeiting was 
developed by Japan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan> and the United 
States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> in 2006. Canada, the 
European Union <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union> and 
Switzerland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland> joined the

     This from the first web page ACTA brought up. There is more than 
you want to read :-)


73 Karl


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