US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement

An anonymous reader sends word that Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a 'Pirate Bay killing' multi-lateral trade agreement, called 'ACTA,' with the EU, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and New Zealand. "The proposal includes clauses designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the Internet, which would also affect transparency sites such as Wikileaks. The Wikileaks document details provisions that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. If adopted, the treaty would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon Internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools."

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Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle

[Shakrai]

0.6 thousand $ and 0.00 years in jail over here now in Nevada for a first offense.

It's even less than that here in New York. $100 fine and no criminal record. Not all of us are lucky enough to live in the saner states though. I'll use Pennsylvania as the example -- in PA they have a "drugged driving" law that basically says if you have ANY detectable drug metabolites (not the drug itself) in your system that it's basically the same as a DWI. If you smoked a joint two weeks ago you could be convicted of driving under the influence and lose your license and even your freedom. WTF is wrong with that picture?

And we used to have the most draconian drug laws - wonder if Wiki-joke-pedia will fix that no longer true statement.

NORML has a handy section on their website where you can see the different state laws regarding marijuana.