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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Posted by kdawson on from the what's-on-your-ipod-eh dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close.'"

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  1. seX with a goat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    all servers. C^oming The Cathedral Other members in also dead, its

  2. Re:What "Free Trade" Looks Like. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Um, twitter, can't you just write one post with all the things you want to say and call it a day?

  3. Re:Perverse logic to this Intellectual Property st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    twitter, ibane and Odder are the same person, aren't they?