Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed (freezenet.ca)

Dangerous_Minds writes: Freezenet seems to be the first website to publish a full run-down of the final draft of the Intellectual Property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The leak was published on Wikileaks earlier. The analysis seems to confirm what the EFF has said, saying that the chapter "confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations." The analysis focuses mainly on copyright enforcement on the Internet and the impact the chapter would have on personal devices, VPN services, and ISPs. One noteworthy find by Freezenet is the inclusion of a "TPP Commission" which would decide when different countries are supposed to meet outside of the 10-year cycle, discussing "market circumstances" of "the development of new pharmaceutical products." What other roles the TPP Commission takes on is unclear given that it is not mentioned anywhere else in the chapter.

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Re: Governments = Evil.

[bill_mcgonigle]

But apart from the aqueduct, roads, public health, sanitation, peace, public order, education, and healthcare

Yes, those are things that nobody would demand in a market situation. Clearly we need human sacrifice on the order of hundreds of millions of people to provide water transportation systems.

"But if we don't sacrifice the virgins, the sun won't come up, and then everybody will die!"

I'm not sure which is the most repulsive: the Stockholm syndrome, the lack of reason and creativity, or the sociopathic disregard for the lives of millions in deference to the propaganda of a seventh-grade government-school civics teacher.

"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of reality."

Re:Governments = Evil.

[aaaaaaargh!]

That's just another run-off-the-mill anarchist position. You sound like anarchism had never been proposed as a political view before and as if there had never been any serious debate about this. This has already been discussed and rejected by most thinkers more than a hundred years ago.

Despite the fact that probably everyone wants a lean government and it is surprisingly hard to get one, you position has the fatal flaw that you need a government apparatus to control corporations via anti-cartel laws and regulations for worker protection, social security, and basic customer protection. An unrestricted market invariably leads to cartels and extreme unequal wealth distributions. Your abolishing of the government would lead to extreme corporate fascism and totalitarian oligarchy, possibly even dictatorship, and you'd end up as a slave worker in no time.