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Not content with screwing up their own rights and freedoms, it appears the ACTA negotiations are a concerted effort to take a bad law and make it global on behalf of the USA and the antiquated entertainment cartel.

The tenets of this treaty are such that it would drastically impinge both Canadian and EU laws, and be yet another strike against honest consumers and researchers alike.

Despite numerous examples throughout the world of better and more equitable ways of dealing with these issues, the USA and others continue to press these consumer-hostile approaches behind closed doors with secret treaties. I imagine the corporations have a number of seats at the table or at least open access to the text and notes, but the consumers, the citizens of these nations are kept from even knowing the intent of these negotiations.

It is a horrible example of how governments are manipulated by special interest groups, and further how antiquated the approach is for this treaty. Many nations, including Canada, have been holding open forum copyright consultations. This flies in the face of that process, and I believe Canada and other nations that follow such proper open policies in developing laws should withdraw from the ACTA negotiations and make it clear that this is not an acceptable way to develop laws and treaties any longer.

EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model: “EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model”

(Via Michael Geist Blog.)

And I should be posting this to twitter as well with the WP to Twitter plugin. Get that social media integration happening!