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US Negotiators Cave On Internet Provisions To ACTA
Hugh Pickens writes "Ars Technica reports that with the release of the 'near-final' ACTA text (PDF), it is becoming clear that the US has caved on the most egregious provisions from earlier drafts (advocating 'three strikes' regimes, ordering ISPs to develop anti-piracy plans, promoting tough DRM anticircumvention language, setting up a 'takedown' notification system, ordering 'secondary liability' for device makers) and has largely failed in its attempts to push the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) onto the rest of the world. Apparently, a face-saving agreement is better than no agreement at all — but even the neutered ACTA could run into problems, with Mexico's Senate recently approving a nonbinding resolution asking for the country to suspend participation in ACTA, while key members of the European Parliament have also expressed skepticism about the deal."
Both the Repulsicrats and the Demonicans are completely owned by the MafiAA. Why wouldn't they "cave", they never really had any intention of fighting for sanity and consumers' rights in the first place.
Gotta love how Obama had Net Neutrality on his campaign platform and has thrown it under the bus like everything else.
Seriously - Credit card reform got neutered to the point of being worthless, the main "impact" has been a bunch of shitheads in the banks doubling everyone's interest rates before the deadline hit. "Health Care Reform" is now handing out "exceptions" like candy lest big companies like McDonalds throw their employees completely to the wolves. He vetoed a package authored by sleazebags on both sides of the aisle to push for quicker foreclosures and screw the housing market even more, but at the same time hasn't done anything on his promises to reform the system to punish companies who ship jobs overseas and evade taxes.
Welcome to the broken system. Obama ran on "not being Bush" and even got a Nobel for "not being Bush", but looking at what he actually did, Obama == Bush.