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US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty
The year's most controversial secret treaty just became very, very public. WikiLeaks has posted a full copy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership proposals from this August, revealing many provisions that have only been seen by a small group of lobbyists and heads of state. Nothing in the text has been definitively agreed to, but it offers a rare look into the state of a treaty that could lock in a broad range of rules about information access, patents, and consumer hardware.
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I find it incomprehensible that any of the nations,all supposedly democracies, negotiating this abomination would attempt to foist it upon their citizens without an open vote.Beyond wholesale surrender to Big Phama in areas pertaining to drug patent extension,the sanctions proposed to protect copyright online are draconian: A $10,000 fine for merely viewing (computer buffering copies of a video would be considered as downloading) a copyright protected video on YouTube,for example,and a "three strikes" rule which would result in families being banned from use of the internet for life: http://stopthetrap.net/