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authority, so it would get passed and become the law of the land before anyone could do anything about it.

...in the name of "intellectual property."

Doctors without Borders were against it.

When I read that, I knew this agreement
had to be bad.

An anonymous reader writes:
Wikileaks has released the finalized Intellectual Property text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which international negotiators agreed upon a few days ago. Unfortunately, it contains many of the consumer-hostile provisions that so many organizations spoke out against beforehand. This includes the extension of the copyright term to life plus 70 years, and a ban on the circumvention of DRM. The EFF says, "If you dig deeper, you'll notice that all of the provisions that recognize the rights of the public are non-binding, whereas almost everything that benefits rightsholders is binding. That paragraph on the public domain, for example, used to be much stronger in the first leaked draft, with specific obligations to identify, preserve and promote access to public domain material. All of that has now been lost in favor of a feeble, feel-good platitude that imposes no concrete obligations on the TPP parties whatsoever." The EFF walks us through all the other awful provisions as well — it's quite a lengthy analysis.

Knowing how things are to turn out concerning the internet's future in the TPP might explain the Faux outrage by corporations over the FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling. They just stamped their feet and went away knowing they'll get it all back and more later...and we all thought they lost!

Looks as though Net Neutrality will end with a snicker rather than frustration on the part of copro-America (no typo!).

Hey Obama, remember to have your netizens splayed and neutered.