Full ACTA Leak Online

An anonymous reader writes "Following months of small Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leaks, the full consolidated ACTA text has now been posted online. The consolidated text provides a clear indication of how the negotiations have altered earlier proposals (see this post for links to the early leaks) as well as the first look at several other ACTA elements. For example, last spring it was revealed that several countries had proposed including a de minimus provision to counter fears that the border measures chapter would lead to iPod searching border guards. The leak shows there are four proposals on the table."

Comments

Short summary of the treaty

[dkleinsc]

All your files are belong to us.

This is why you need version control on laws

[jonaskoelker]

You have the amendment itself, which says thing like "in section 3, omit the words blah and replace with blah" or "section 82(b) is hereby repealed".

If you squint hard enough and replace the arbitrary words with intuitively selected symbols (plus, minus, at, comma), it looks almost like...

A diff.

So... a consolidated version is one with... all patches applied? Like git checkout HEAD?

And they have this cumbersome process automated? Why, we programmers should do that too! It would save lots of effort :)

The Right-Wing nutjobs may have been right?

[jd2112]

Perhaps this, rather than the UN, is the 'Evil One-World Govenment' they were warning us about...

Re:surrender monkeys as in

[maxume]

The Russians had some idea, they were allowing the Germans to conduct training operations on Russian territory.