ACTA Backs Away From 3 Strikes

April 21st, 2010 admin

A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The official draft of the proposed intellectual property accord was released after months of leaks and assertions by the Obama administration that it was a classified national security secret . Still, critics of the proposal said Tuesday that a …


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