Wednesday January 25, 2012

Thought SOPA Was Bad? Meet ACTA

Ugh, didn't we just go through all this? SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, MILF, STFU, WTF? It doesn't matter what acronym they has, these things have no public support and are a huge waste of time and money.

Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan.

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