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Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the coming-at-you-from-every-side dept.

miowpurr writes to tell us that a draft of the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has been posted on Wikileaks. Among others, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has weighed in on the possible ramifications of this treaty. "Among other things, ACTA will outlaw P2P (even when used to share works that are legally available, like my books), and crack down on things like region-free DVD players. All of this is taking place out of the public eye, presumably with the intention of presenting it as a fait accompli just as the ink is drying on the treaty."

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  1. So whats next? by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what is next for this? Will JavaScript 2 be outlawed because it is an advancement over JavaScript 1 in the way P2P is an advancement over standard downloads? Or the way that Vista is an advancement over... wait, never mind.

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