Meet SOPA's evil twin, ACTA

Technology - Thursday, January, 26 2012FORTUNE -- It's only meet that a brassy, planetary outcry complete ACTA, an external agreement to gcompleten rational property, began just after the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA were shelved by the U.S Congress in the face of monolithic public pressure. If "copyright maximalists" can't get legislation passing, writes TechDirt's Mike Masnick, "they resort to getting these things put into external trade agreements, which get significantly less scrutiny."

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