On 22nd of May this year a document made public on Wikileaks exposed the draft of a new treaty on intellectual property called ACTA. The treaty proposes more extreme measures against file-sharing under the disguise of an anti-counterfeit treaty - forcing ISPs to police their own customers and incriminating web-services and software. ACTA is being negotiated between the largest copyright holders later to be exported all over the world.
ACTA is a clear example of where copyright enforcement are today. Far from actual copyright infringements it tries to ban tools themselves for their potential infringing uses. Ignorance from politicians and the paralyzation of an entertainment industry has this copyright machine running wild, preventing the transformation of the cultural economy that the very companies that pursue it needs.
We want to talk about the treaty and how it would effect web developers and ISPs, as well as the campaign site actonacta.org and what could be done to stop this treaty.
