[Infowarrior] - US plots "Pirate Bay killer" multi-lateral trade agreement

[Richard Forno]

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> Fri May 23 02:06:26 GMT 2008
> Wikileaks Press Release
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> US PLOTS "PIRATE BAY KILLER" MULTI-LATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT
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> Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a "Pirate
> Bay killing" multi-lateral trade agreement with the EU, Japan,
> Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and New Zealand. The proposal includes
> clauses designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of
> copyrighted information exchange on the internet, which would also
> affect transparency sites such as Wikileaks.
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> The Wikileaks document details provisions that would impose strict
> enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet
> activity and trade in information-based goods. If adopted, the
> treaty 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.
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> See
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> http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007)
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> and
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> http://ipjustice.org/wp/2008/05/22/leaked-us-govt-discussion-paper-on-proposed-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta-from-wikileaks/
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> for further detail.