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| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement                                |
|   from the what’s-on-your-ipod-eh dept.                            |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @23:02 (Privacy)             |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244 |
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[0]SpaceAdmiral writes “The Canadian government is secretly negotiating
to join the US and the EU in an [1]Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and
cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over
customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the
University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest
Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: ‘If Hollywood could order
intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This
is pretty close.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244

Links:
0. http://www.fanehenderson.com/
1. http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e