Mishi Choudhary wrote: > > > In addition to Mr Nag's note, there are some initial drafts of the > agreements available on Wikileaks, which are useful to look at. > > http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US%2C_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts%2C_2009 > > Despite the efforts of the Free Software groups, we have been > unsuccessful in obtaining any information from various parties who have > signed the Non- Disclosure Agreements. > > People behind ACTA are the usual line of suspects, Time Warner, Sony > Corp, News Corp. Walt Disney along with law firms, other Japanese, > U.S.parties etc who have made substantial financial contributions. > > ACTA will create a culture of surveillance and suspicion, it is going to > extend stricter U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act provisions > specifically ones dealing with Internet Service Provider, wherein no > legal safeguards would be provided to the ISP's thus forcing them to > become privacy invading parties in all aspects. FSF has a number of > problems with ACTA and has a campaign available at > > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/ >
Thanks Mishi for the update, and will look forward for more updates. I did not see this FSF's campaign before. it escaped our attention. GN _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
