Freeing Trade By Restricting It

Declan McCullagh offers another reason to dislike CAFTA: It "will require Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to mirror the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's broad prohibition on bypassing copy-protection technology." They'll also have to match the U.S.'s extended copyright terms, allow software patents, and restrict the technologies used to de-encrypt satellite TV signals.

[Via Norman Singleton.]