EFF, Public Knowledge Sue Over Secret IP Pact

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday September 19, 2008 @01:02AM from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

Cowards Anonymous writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws. ACTA could include an agreement for the US, Canada, the European Commission and other nations to enforce each others' IP laws, with residents of each country subject to criminal charges when violating the IP laws of another country, according to a supposed ACTA discussion paper [PDF] posted on Wikileaks.org in May."

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Re:Shine a light on these roaches! Protest! by cdrguru · 2008-09-19 06:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Murder is one of those things that no matter how many public service advertisements come on television, people seem to just keep getting killed. Law enforcement is powerless to stop it. Tens of thousands of people are murdered each year on the average.
Should laws against murder be considered bad because the enforcement isn't having much of an effect?