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Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a Pirate Bay killing multi-lateral trade agreement. The proposal includes clauses designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the internet, rapidly expose ISPs customers and ban the use of various anonymization tools.
In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement, which was called, in a piece of brilliant marketing, the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (the agreement does not cover currency fraud).
ACTA is spearheaded by the United States along with the European Commission, Japan, and Switzerland — which have large intellectual property industries. Other countries invited to participate in ACTA’s negotiation process are Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Noticeably absent from ACTA’s negotiations are leaders from developing countries who hold national policy priorities that differ from the international intellectual property industry.
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