I know there are many thread around already about ACTA, but the seriousness of this issue in my eyes warrants hundreds of new threads informing us on this draconian legislation
The European Parliament was one of the bodies that asked its administration to share the treaty discussions with the elected members, only to be turned down. Cables in the Wikileaks dumps showed US officials orchestrating this secrecy because they knew how unpopular this one-sided, heavy-handed copyright treaty would be. Freedom of Information requests to the Obama administration confirmed that the reason for the secrecy was the experience in transparent negotiation at the UN, which resulted in an uprising by developing nations, who saw stricter, more expansive copyrights as a means of extracting rents from the world's poorest people.
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edit on 27-1-2012 by SpeachM1litant because: (no reason given)


