Has anyone heard of this before? You probably haven't since most of the negotiations were behind closed doors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_AgreementI admit that is quite the read and you can skip a lot of it in order to get to what this legislation would actually mean. The "Criticism" section is a good place to start if you don't want to read the whole document (I didn't.
ninja ), as it gets to the gist of the controversy surrounding this proposed legislation.
The tl;dr version is this
http://www.p2pnet.net/img/2010/20100329132205a.jpgIt sounds like more globalist infringement on civil liberties to me. What's your take?