Have you seen this?

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Found this on the piratebay earlier. Methinks we should, to a certain degree, be concerned.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5425059/ACTA_Agreement_leaked_
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The leaked ACTA agreement!
Soon to be copy pasted into a law near you.

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"It provides for criminalization of copyright infringement, granting law enforcement the powers to perform criminal investigation, arrests and pursue criminal citations or prosecution of suspects who MAY have infringed on copyright"

Basically, you're guilty until proven otherwise. Nice move big brother, nice move.

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Read more about it here:

http://werebuild.eu/wiki/index.php?title=ACTA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-On-Line

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/tags/acta/

http://activepolitic.com:82/blog/2009.12.04/ACTA.html

More to come. Please post interesting links in the comments and we'll add 'em up here.

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Now... you may react!

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