Protect your pipes (and your neck)
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed International agreement that could radically shift the policing of Internet based data communication. It would establish a new governing body that would forces ISPs to monitor and report on the activity of any user.
Why You Should Care About It
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties, for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet, legitimate commerce, and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.
ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialized countries, outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and (since TRIPs) the World Trade Organization. Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed, no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations. (via EFF)
Thus far, negations have been held behind closed doors, but details of the plan have been leaked and some countries have already vowed to sabotage or derail a unilateral agreement.
I suggest you visit the sites listed below for more details.
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http://www.questrpg.org brandon
