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IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret
Hugh Pickens writes "More than a thousand pages of material about Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), are still being withheld, despite the Obama administration's promises to run a more open government. The EFF and Public Knowledge filed suit in September of 2008, demanding that background documents on ACTA be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 'We are very disappointed with the USTR's decision to continue to withhold these documents. The president promised an open and transparent administration,' said EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel. Publicly available information about the treaty shows it could establish far-reaching customs regulations over Internet traffic in the guise of anti-counterfeiting measures. Additionally, multi-national IP industry companies have publicly requested that ISPs be required to engage in filtering of their customers' Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material, force mandatory disclosure of personal information about alleged copyright infringers, and adopt 'Three Strikes' policies requiring ISPs to automatically terminate customers' Internet access upon a repeat allegation of copyright infringement. 'What we've seen tends to confirm that the substance of ACTA remains a grave concern,' said Public Knowledge Staff Attorney Sherwin Siy. 'The agreement increasingly looks like an attempt by Hollywood and the content industries to perform an end-run around national legislatures and public international forums to advance an aggressive, radical change in the way that copyright and trademark laws are enforced.'"
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That's right, you cock-smoking tea-bagger, I do know how to goatse a penis.
It's the JEWS, stupid...
Who benefits from this? The JEW.
Who never works in manual labour? The JEW. The Eternal Jew.
How many Jews have you seen working in factories? Digging roads? Harvesting crops in the fields?
Of course not, it's all so beneath them, after all, they are 'God's chosen people', and we are but cattle...
So I guess, by your logic, we should completely ignore anything which abrogates the rights of millions of people as long as there's one other injustice going on to a single person.
Nice set of priorities you have there.
If you were alive during WWII in Germany, you probably would have told everyone to ignore what was being done to 6 million jews, just because there was some other bad thing happening to a handful of people somewhere else.
And how does that change the fact that the ACLU is completely ignoring an issue that affects 275 million people.
They're completely capable (and are) handling hundreds of cases at the same time, yet they're purposely ignoring one that affects a whole bunch of people.
So fuck you, you're the bad person.
during WWII in Germany, you probably would have told everyone to ignore what was being done to 6 million jews
a godwin? Really?
So I guess, by your logic, we should completely ignore anything which abrogates the rights of millions of people as long as there's one other injustice going on
You're as stupid as they come.
You can't take the sky from me...
And niggers love chicken!
Better yet, you could drop your sense of entitlement, stop being such an insufferable freeloader, and pick up the phone to call an actual private attorney.
Yeah, suck it up and spend thousands of dollars to secure your rights! What are you, some kind of pussy? Or worse, someone who works for a living? Why the fuck aren't you rich and privileged?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"