So now maybe your parents will care about TPP - send them a link.Wikileaks has published a leaked draft -- dated Oct, 5, and thus possibly the final text -- of the "Intellectual Property Chapter" of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it's grim reading.
First in the parade of the Just Plain Wrong: the Internet has been included in a secret trade agreement.
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The chapter dealing with the Internet is the intellectual property chapter, which tells you that as far as the negotiators were concerned, the most important fact about the Internet is whether people watch movies without paying for them -- not whether the nervous system of the 21st century through which we conduct our work, family, romantic, artistic, and political lives is appropriately safeguarded.
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Under the terms of the text, countries in the TPP can force each other to suspend legal proceedings if the trial would cause embarrassing informainformation -- information "detrimental to a party’s economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security" -- would come to light. That would be the Wikileaks/Snowden clause.
Also, if one country is prosecuting someone for "intellectual property theft," they can require other countries to turn over huge amounts of private data. [...] including the identification of third persons alleged to be involved in the production and distribution of such goods or services and of their channels of distribution."
In other words, if you're accused of downloading anime in America, the Japanese government can force your American ISP to hand over all of your parents' online records.
Boing Boing
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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