The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is getting some notice now as more and more people start to pay attention to this train wreck of a document.
From IT News AU:
A group of intellectual property experts have warned that search engines, web hosts and e-commerce sites will be stripped of protections if the proposed draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is endorsed.
The ACTA is a trade agreement being forged between the United States and 26 allies including Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and nations within the European Union, which seeks to impose universal obligations around the protection of copyright and other intellectual property rights.
This could cause some serious issues for companies like Google who already have to contend with multiple issues regarding content on YouTube and other properties. This is just a bad idea.
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