﻿ ACTA: ISPs to be liable for piracy | ZDNet  ACTA: ISPs to be
liable for piracy  Summary: If Australia signs the Anti-
Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), internet service
providers (ISPs) may be obliged to hand over the identity of its
users to those defending copyright.   The European Commission of
Trade has released a draft of the agreement, which aims to
establish international standards on how to enforce intellectual
property rights, and has involved countries around the world
including Australia.  Signatories to the ACTA will be required
to ensure that copyright holders can sue "intermediaries" whose
services are used to infringe intellectual property.  "The
parties [may] shall also ensure that right holders are in a
position to apply for an injunction against [infringing]
intermediaries whose services are used by a third party to
infringe an intellectual property right," the draft states.  The
agreement deals with difficulties that copyright holders have in
targeting actual infringers online. It det