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The evil that is ACTA

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Fri, 11/20/2009 - 1:14pm — lambert

As Cory Doctorow says:

Here's a 20-minute, must-see lecture on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement -- the secret copyright treaty currently being negotiated, which stands to fatally wound all user-generated content sites from mailing lists to YouTube; which stands to criminalize kids for noncommercial file-sharing; which stands to put your internet connection in jeopardy if anyone in your house is accused of infringement, and much, much more.

What's not to like?

These clowns really are going to force us into a totally DIY mode on content. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

NOTE Via Demosthenes.

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treaties have to be ratified

By DCblogger on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 1:19pm

how can a secrete treaty have the force of law?

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