This Really Pisses Me Off

"The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close.'"

First the border guards have the ability to take my laptop, force me to give up my passwords for encrypted files and never return the laptop and give no reasons why and now this? This is shamelessly unconstitutional and no one gives a damn. I thought I couldn't hate the Bush presidency more.

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