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ACTA Amendments

Assuming that that ACTA Treaty will be amended after it has been ratified, what is to stop the ACTA officials from changing or adding provisions such as the "3 Strikes and you are Banned from the Internet"? The 3 Strikes provision was removed to ease initial ratification of the treaty. The wikipedia article describes section 5 and 6 as creating an amendment committee.

" Articles 5 and 6 of the treaty provide creation of an "ACTA committee" which may make subsequent amendments to the agreement, subject to the approval of the parties. Public review or judicial review will not be needed to create amendments. Industry representatives may have consultatory input to amendments."

Unforeseen invasive complications can occur when ACTA is combined with other powers. For example, Intel just announced that their future processors will incorporate the feature to receive commands from either 3G or internet communication to disable the PC or erase content from the hard drive. The announcement is at:

http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/101957-intel-details-second-generation-core-processor-architecture-idf.htm

posted by : Naoko, 24 September 2010 Complain about this comment

ACTA draft removes burden on ISPs

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