Latest Version of ACTA Leaks

An anonymous reader writes "Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid points to a freshly leaked version of ACTA available on La Quadrature Du Net. While the text will need further analysis, the most recent look at the text suggests that there is no Three Strikes law, but anti-circumvention laws have a new twist to them with regard to exceptions in that 'they do not significantly impair the adequacy of legal protection [...] or the effectiveness of legal remedies for violations of those measures.' Overall, the text still hints at a global DMCA with notice-and-takedown."

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Software patent problem: ISP liability=C&D let

[ciaran_o_riordan]

Software patent problems are also worsened by ACTA, but this problem's getting lost among the discussion of problems of transporting pharmaceuticals via Europe. The pharmaceuticals issue is bigger, but the software patents issue still exists (and the DRM issues, which is even worse).

• ACTA and software patents
• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement overview
• 201001 acta.pdf as text - the previous leak, for comparison

swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help welcome.

Further Reading

[somaTh]

Ars Technica recently ran a story on how non-transparent they've been since they gave out their official release in April, along with further links.

textual transcription

[mmu_man]

Many volunteers from La Quadrature du Net did an amazing job at transcripting the ugly PDF scan, the result is available here:
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_20100713_version_consolidated_text

you get it half assedly

[unity100]

the document was meant to be that secretive as geist makes it sound. but, all countries do not agree on this acta thing, leave aside its secrecy. the ones which are vying for that are united states of america, which houses the private interests who got that treaty prepared in the first place to push their own interests, and uk, due to their lesser counterparts being in the same boat. all the others are less than positive to this thing, but they dont want to go without say in it, hence, participating. some are probably actively trying to sabotage the talks, as all should do. some, like india, are openly against it.

you owe the leakouts to sources that do not agree with american hollywood and media.

Re:you get it half assedly

[unity100]

there is an uprising against acta already. eu doesnt like it. eu parliament banned various potential implementations of it. india openly opposes it.

all it needs more encouragement, for it to become a full fledged uprising.

Re:Constitutional challenge?

[Nidi62]

What the heck is an "Executive Agreement" and what sort of force does it have.

PoliSci grad student here. An Executive Agreement is exactly the same as an Executive Order (as in it has the full force of law) with one major difference: it is only in effect so long as the President that signs it is still in office. However, it can be extended by the next president through an executive order or another agreement. It seems to me that the whole point of this is to push it through by the easiest means possible, then when the government tried to push the terms of the agreement to a more permanent status, they are hoping we either won't complain, or won't pay attention.