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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 3/13/2009
The IP Treaty Is Secret Too?!?!?
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Apparently, we're not allowed to know what's in the IP treaty Bush negotiated last fall.
news.cnet.com - 3/13/2009
Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'
— news.cnet.com — Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the... U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes ... (more) Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'

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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/10/2009
Japan reconsidered
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — For a decade or so Japan's lost decade has been the great bugaboo of modern macroeconomics. Economists... constantly warned that you mustn't do X or you must do Y, because otherwise we'll turn into Japan. And policymakers congratulated themselves in ... (more) Japan reconsidered

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Crooks and Liars:  Secret Treaty: Download Music, Go to Jail?

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Secret Treaty: Download Music, Go to Jail?
Crooks and Liars — Marcy at FDL brings us this interesting tidbit that indicates you might be serving jail time for downloading music: Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes copyrights. [...] Now President Obama's White House has tightened the cloak of government secrecy still further, saying in a letter this week that a discussion draft of the ...

A bunch of stuff
The Sideshow — ... The first thing you need to know about the secret "anti-counterfeiting" treaty is that it's not really an anti-counterfeiting treaty, because the items in question aren't counterfeits - that is, copies passed off as the real thing - but copies sold honestly as copies. The next thing you need to know about it is that it can send you to jail. ...

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