Who's the Counterfeiter Now?

Jesse Walker | November 4, 2009

As the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement enters its sixth round of secret negotiations, rumors are emerging about the provisions under discussion. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the reports it has heard here; if the leaks are true, the treaty will be filled with measures that, in EFF's words, "have nothing to do with addressing counterfeit products, but are all about imposing a set of copyright industry demands on the global Internet."

Comments

|11.4.09 @ 9:54AM|#

IP is the tool of oppression!
We be pirates Yo! Ho ho.

Silentz|11.4.09 @ 10:21AM|#

Power To The IPeople!

|11.4.09 @ 10:31AM|#

Is that the sequel to Attack of the the IPeople?

John Tagliaferro|11.4.09 @ 11:16AM|#

That's SQL.

Fist of Etiquette|11.4.09 @ 10:10AM|#

Check out my take on this story at www.reazon.com.

Hacha Cha|11.4.09 @ 10:15AM|#

yeah good luck trying to enforce that. it will never work. if they try to take down the internet as we know it then we will see darknets and private wireless networks pop up everywhere.

|11.4.09 @ 10:30AM|#

Yo, let me tell y'all a story 'bout a treaty I knew, / A broke-ass bitch with a gay-ass crew. / She said that I was cute. She said that I was funny. / But the honey couldn't stop lookin' at my money. / Busted old lady with a flat tiny ass. / Her body like a skeleton in science class. / Face beat up by the school of hard knocks. / Hair so fried it bleached my Clorox. / It's like she's skinny, fat in all the wrong places. / Mothers gotta cover their babies' faces. / When she walks by people think she's Godzilla. / Straight outta Compton? Nah, y'all, straight outta "Thriller." / Lookin' like a zombie, walkin' like a chicken. / Mouth full of shit that's why her breath be stinkin'. / Just one question, ACTA, before you take your bow. / This gravy train's leaving, so who's the counterfeiter now?

Xeones|11.4.09 @ 10:30AM|#

we will see darknets

Racist!

|11.4.09 @ 10:59AM|#

Its only racist if they are whitenets in dark makeup.

¢|11.4.09 @ 10:37AM|#

the global Internet

There's another one?

Your press release does not appear to be written in English. Please fire your editor in English.

John Tagliaferro|11.4.09 @ 11:18AM|#

Of course. How do you think we secretly communicate with all those advanced cultures in the rest of the universe?

Warty|11.4.09 @ 11:20AM|#

http://www.engadget.com/2008/1.....rf-triump/

Quiet, Suki.

Brian Sorgatz|11.4.09 @ 12:19PM|#

Secret negotiations? Is it paranoid of me to suspect the negotiators' motives merely because they're working in secret?

Jason|11.4.09 @ 1:49PM|#

Isn't money copyrighted in some countries?