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Parties Involved:
Australia
Canada
The European Union (almost entire Europe)
Japan
Mexico
Morocco
New Zealand
The Republic of Korea
Singapore
Switzerland
United States

Negotiation started in June of 2008 and it will pass as of September 2010 (unconfirmed).

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Brief summary of what the agreement will allow the government to potentially do: Access hard drives of any device connected to the internet (cell phones, MP3s, iPods, and most importantly, COMPUTERS). If this agreement passes the government will be allowed to access your electronic devices WITHOUT consent or warrant and use evidence inside of them to press charges against you, hence, illegally downloaded music, videos, games, etc. on your hard drive you will be held accountable for.


My opinion: Our rights as citizens of a democratic country have been diminishing more quickly than ever before. First there was the patriot act (USA) passed in 2001 which allowed the government to tap our phones without a warrant and now there is ACTA, which if passed, will completely get rid of our privacy on the computer. The government keeping this quiet is another thing that pisses me off, which is why most of the people that are reading this have never heard of ACTA. This is completely against the fourth amendment (USA) and the government is starting to hold way too much power.


Opinions?

Discuss.

Consequences will never be the same!

Well whats next then? Bathroom?

sadly yes lol

time to format mah harddrive and boot up Windows 7 that I Didn't pay for!

then we should be able to watch him using the bathroom.

It's equal rights.

I would thank that but it won't let me

oh okay, when you can thank, thank the post.

This is pretty old news.