[governance] Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad.

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Again it looks as though ICANN's IPC, RIAA, MPAA and their
other nation counterparts, and Authors Guild have gotten a
perhaps big win/windfall here.  What says the IGF/IGC?

  FWIW, I can't see the bulk of this agreement/treaty being
in the interest of the Internet community.  Certainly it
favors heavily the IP segment.

See:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/04/144240
Jamie found a Boing Boing story that will probably get your blood to at
least a simmer. It says "The http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html
internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret 
copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose 
due to 'national security' concerns, has leaked. It's bad." You can read 
the http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/original leaked
document or the summary. If passed, the internet will never be the same.
Thank goodness it's hidden from public scrutiny for National Security.
< sarcasm intended >

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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