Yesterday Wikileaks puplished a leaked document entitled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". Its quite a scary read and obviously aims to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the internet, by pushing for a generalized Intellectual Property Right(IPR) law enforcement worldwide.
If adopted, a treaty of this form would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools. The source states that trade representatives intend to formalize the agreement at the G-8 summit in July 2008. (text passages taken from wikileaks)

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paper (pdf)
story on wikileaks

 
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