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Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty  The Trans-
Pacific Partnership will export the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act …  So many countries in need of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, so little time! The US government, still trying
to secure final passage for the drafted-in-secret Anti-
Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), has already turned its
attention to a new multilateral trade agreement that will bring
the wonders of the DMCA to countries like Australia, Brunei,
Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.  The new Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP), like the ACTA before it, had its intellectual
property chapter drafted by the US. Once again, the chapter was
drafted in secret and has been classified for at least four
years after negotiations end. The agreement exports (nearly
verbatim) the DMCA's rules on digital locks, ISP liability, and
subscriber disconnections, with a few extra goodies on the side.
TPP has been in the drafting