ACTA’s Take on Digital Piracy Is Nothing New 
Paul Sweeting- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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ACTA aims to tackle digital piracy by exporting U.S. policies.
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Ever since its existence came to light two years ago, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been the object of speculation, litigation and paranoia among media and technology policy wonks. Last week, a new document leak added fuel to the fire by seeming to suggest that the U.S. is trying to engineer a worldwide "three-strikes" regime for accused file-sharers, through the expedient of a multilateral trade agreement, that would ultimately require a significant tightening of U.S. copyright law. But what the leaked document mostly suggests is that the U.S. position on ACTA has more to do with exporting U.S. copyright law to other nations than the other way around. […]
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