Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Buzz by Simon Phipps from Buzz

ACTA is a secret treaty where the future is being defined for laws surrounding how you and I may use the internet and how cultural essentials like music, books and movies can be accessed digitally. It is obviously going to have a huge impact, and governments all over the world are scrambling to implement key enablers to ratifying it, such as "three-strikes" internet disconnection measures and the UK's Digital Economy Bill.

But there's been little discussion of its impact on Free and open source software and the communities that build it. What discussions have taken place so far? What do we know?

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