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Wikileaks Releases ACTA Negotiations As "0-Day"

Posted by kdawson on from the frictionless-information-flow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has released a new document about the ACTA negotiations occurring in Washington over the next three days. This might be the shortest time between authorship of a document and its publication on Wikileaks so far. The brief 3-page memo, dated today, could add quite a bit of oil to the fire of the ACTA debate. It is titled Business Perspectives on Border Measures and Civil Enforcement and it contains a set of proposals to the 'ACTA negotiators' issued by 'Concerned business groups operating in ACTA nations.' Among many highly invasive methods and approaches proposed in this memorandum, the reader can find detailed demands for: full disclosure of relevant information by Customs to trademark holders so that they can mount private investigations; disclosure of identities and other information about copyright infringers; and increased inspection of goods. This document is especially important to raise public awareness on these negotiations and their implications for the future." We've been watching ACTA develop for a few months now.

6 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. ACTA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really that hard to say what the initials stand for just once in the summary?

  2. The Days of Internet Freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The days of Internet freedom are quite sadly coming to an end with these international movements toward information totalitarianism, unless the geeks of the world are able to effectively unite and push back.

  3. Re:wikileaks by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Part of me thinks that had the technology been around in the mid 1700's the rights of something like Wikileaks would have been enshrined in the constitution by the founding fathers as the ultimate check and balance.

    Despite the fact that the technology was far more primitive in the 1700s, the rights of "something like Wikileaks" were enshrined in the Constitution -- that is, in the Bill of Rights:

    Amendment I

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

  4. Re:wtf by megaditto · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since you are a gun owner, you should realize that they will first come for YOU (since they know where you live).

    And the rest of us will cheer ("make streets safe for our children" or whatever) them on until it's too late.

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    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  5. Re:ATCA by phoomp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would think nerds would like to know about a treaty which proposes to search your mp3 player for unauthorized copyright material at international borders.

  6. Re:ATCA by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    40 years ago they thought that they'd never be able to waste time searching the bags of every person that traveled.

    All it took was a generation to be force fed apathy inducing, mind-numbing pop culture and now they are free to use your tax dollars to make your life a living security nightmare.

    To the guy who posted earlier about only wanting to hear about the latest greatest motherboards and ignore anything remotely political, I'm looking at you. Only caring about the latest hardware is no different, effectively, to the teenage girl who reads Cosmo cover to cover to stay up to date on the latest adventures of Paris Hilton.

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    I hate printers.