acta treaty

I was surprised not to find a thread about this on the forums. While SOPA seems to be beaten to death, ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is apparently very alive. Critics argue ACTA is even worse than SOPA in that it is an international treaty, and is held and negotiated under...

From what i can gather, ACTA (Anti-counterfeiting trade agreement) basically destroys the idea of presumption of innocence, allows for companies to have my private data etc all without a warrant. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/06/secret-supercopyrigh.html What is it?

What are your opinions about the ACTA Treaty (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) which is a highly secretive treaty that may allow the government more leeway in monitoring internet transmissions, counterfeiting computers, possibly filtering internet content, and which FOIA requests have been...