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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is the most important treaty you’ve never heard of. The big western countries are busy negotiating this big trade deal in secret. The news about ACTA that has leaked out of the negotiations is cause for concern.

 
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Meanwhile, the US Senate Judiciary Committee has voted for a bill called The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act. This distinctly wretched bill goes so far as to have the Justice Department empowered to file civil lawsuits against alleged copyright pirates. I guess the recording industry preferrs to have the taxpayers pay for their efforts to enforce their property rights.  The only Senators to oppose this bill were Republicans.

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    Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm | Permalink

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