But I guess that in itself is saying a lot about how laws tend to be enacted these days, by big business, and not a hint of democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
In September 2008, a number of interest groups urged parties to the ACTA negotiations to disclose the language of the evolving agreement. In an open letter, the groups argued that: "Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent these and related concerns are merited." The interest groups included: the Consumers Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Essential Action, IP Justice, Knowledge Ecology International, Public Knowledge, Global Trade Watch, the US Public Interest Research Group, IP Left (Korea), the Canadian Library Association, the Consumers Union of Japan, the National Consumer Council (UK) and the Doctors without Borders' Campaign for Essential Medicines.[23] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge have filed a FOIA request which was denied.
Whatever all the above organizations want, it is usually in our best interest. I'm with them. Especially the Canadian Library Association ... hehe
I also enjoyed the reason for non-disclosure "national security risk". Seems like Big Brother uses that a lot since 911 to justify just about anything.
Big Brand names, and Big pharma arn't rich enough, let's go around the world and make everyone pay full price, and offer no alternatives to products ... The greed and audacity... think i'm gonna be sick again.
And wait, this whole bill seems like it was made for a country like China...and they didn't want to sign..hmm wonder why?
