Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA

An anonymous reader writes "Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continue on Wednesday as the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, and a handful of other countries secretly negotiate a copyright treaty that includes statutory damages, new search and seizure power, and anti-camcording rules. Now the substance of the Internet chapter has leaked, with information that the proposed chapter would create a 'Global DMCA' with anti-circumvention rules, liability for ISPs, and the possibility of three-strikes and you're out requirements."

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also have to be made law?

[BigHungryJoe]

wouldn't any signed treaty also have to be made law in each respective country?

I've never understood how countries can be bound by a treaty through ratification (Kyoto protocol?) without it going through a country's law-making body...