ACTA Draft on Wikileaks!
April 13th, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Michael has reported a new Wikileaks document which purports to be an ACTA draft. It’s a 5.2MB download and appears to be photographs of a document dated 7 July 2008.
It’s highly resistant to OCR but Wikileaks is hosting a page where transcriptions are being lodged
I think it’s awfully interesting to note that all requests for information around the world have been met with “There isn’t a draft text yet, so we can’t release anything. As soon as we have something, we’ll show you.”
Yeah, right
“President Obama was supposed to champion the geek ethos by sweeping into DC and backing network neutrality, mashups, and transparency—but the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge both say they’re not impressed by the “transparency” seen so far on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/acta-can-shame-work-where-lawsuits-fail.ars
Comment by Thrash Cardiom — May 8, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
To be fair, we’ve seen more transparency in 8 weeks than the previous 8 years. While the top 2 tiers of officials change at each election (more or less), it’s going to take a while for the underlings to register the new regime and new intentions. Plus more than a few will have done things under instruction from the White House that they’d rather not expose, me thinks. Time will tell, but the expectations for instant change were always too high, IMHO.
Comment by mark — May 8, 2009 @ 2:29 pm