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EFF, Public Knowledge Sue Over Secret IP Pact

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Re:Obviously by mfh · · Score: 2, Funny

    The old people have a sense of entitlement, and they lack the sense of interconnection that would preclude them from sacrificing our future on the alter of their comfortable old age.

    Malachai: What has the Lord commanded?

    Isaac: In the dream the Lord did come to me, and he was a shape, it was He Who Walks Behind the Rows, and I did fall on my knees in terror, and hide my eyes lest the fearfulness of his face strike me dead! He told me all that has since happened, he said, "Joseph has taken his things and fled this happy place because the worship of me is no more upon him, so take you his life and spill his blood! Like water upon the earth, but let not the flesh pollute the corn, cast him instead upon the road!

    Malachai: And so it was done, Joseph the betrayer was cast out!

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  2. Re:Leave it to the RIAA for suggestions ... by unity100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They mean themselves.

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  3. Re:Leave it to the RIAA for suggestions ... by oahazmatt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Organized crime?

    You have playlists, don't you? That's pretty organized right there.

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  4. Hmmm. by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ignorance of the law isn't a defense.
    So all you need to do after you make the laws. Is put them on display in the Cellar, where the lights have gone out and so have the stares, in a locked filing cabinet, in a disused bathroom, with a sign on it saying beware of the leopard. And you are liable for breaking a law.

    Ignorance of the law should be a defense if you can prove the government tried to make it so you wouldn't know it.

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