Homeland Security: ACTA is a threat

Thanks to the secrecy and opacity that was negotiated with the ACT the relevant information is not linear, this time back to 2008 to find that even the Department of Homeland Security of the United States warned the treaty body responsible - United States Trade Representative - the ACT is a threat to national security in that country.

The concern was basically that its agents Customs and Border Protection had to focus their efforts on other tasks such as intellectual property protection instead of fighting terrorism. Exactly what happens now with ICE agents, dedicated to pursuing unconstitutionally domains.

Is even clearer now the pirate agenda behind the war on terrorism that the study Piracy Emerging explains.

Besides Homeland Security, warned that ACTA should not bring their partners to commit resources to the protection of intellectual property rather than the effort against terrorism. And is that one must be very wicked to equate the war on terrorism with the protection of intellectual property ... even if it does not matter when it comes to family financial Gadaffi Hollywood movies right?.

In Mexico, former director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (who incidentally resigned), responsible for this embarrassment of a treaty, the Senate defended the frontier that the proposed ACTA (video). However, Homeland Security think differently about language in the section on Border Measures MINUTES:

the proposed text in the "Border Measures" of ACTA could codify international law, certain provisions would be disadvantageous for Customs and Border Protection, and once adopted as an international agreement, even Congress could not alter the rules to make them economically justifiable

Well, well.

Finally what has been a concern from the outset for all opponents of ACT also said Homeland Security:

ACTA can spend international goodwill, to require other governments to change their organizational structures and legal.

Knowledge Ecology International through the Freedom of Information Act in the United States gained access to documents relating to ACTA negotiations, it is not surprising that from now on the revelations in their details, leave bare the utter madness that many supporters blindly.

In fact, the Congressional Research Service of the United States published a legal study of the treaty, as revealed by Techdirt and of which more later, which concludes that the United States government, could be responsible in the future to promote and not necessarily meet the obligations under the treaty.

International governments are acting as if it were something that ACTA is under control. The reality is that never has been, but disguise the work of the negotiators has been great, although as we see now, not very successful. Everything wrong with ACTA.

How much public money this disaster will cost the negotiating countries?

Perhaps the only ACT is able to be exposed to the institutions and officials responsible for committing the abuse they wanted to protect the greed of intellectual monopolies, promoting the criminalization and control as a business model at the expense of the rights of society in Instead of forcing them to fix the problem in a civilized manner.

ACT does not go and reasons abound. What do they expect governments to distance himself, or do intend to sink along with the copyright?

Homeland Security's letter to the USTR is available via KEI. (PDF)

Homeland Security: ACTA is a threat written on ALT1040 April 28, 2011 by geraldine
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