Every time I hear about ACTA I become violently sick. The fact that it continues to be "negotiated" in secret makes it a violation of the sovereignty of any government that would sign it. I dearly hope that it never goes into effect.

I just found something that has reminded me that the U.S.A. is not a democracy. I just discovered that section 1305 of H.R.2346 has the explicit purpose of allowing the Secretary of Defense the unrestricted right to prevent the publication of any photograph taken by US Armed Forces "relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001," and this right can not be circumvented by the Freedom of Information Act.
From what I can see, section 1305 was removed from the bill by the House of Representatives, however, passed by the Senate.

It is argued that the events of September 11, 2001 occurred because of an anti-American mentality. It is clear by the date used that the bill is designed to censor evidence of wrong doing by Bush Administration. Condoning actions made by a previous administration that would reflect negatively against the U.S.A. can only perpetuate this anti-American mentality. I can only suspect that anyone that attempts to prevent the publication of the evidence of any act condones the act represented by the evidence.

In summery, I can not see how section 1305 of H.R.2346 could benefit the U.S.A. so I am explicitly stating my dissent to this bill. I hope that anyone with the power to stop ratification of section 1305 does so, and that whoever wrote it is removed from D.C.

I am including a copy of section 1305 for your information.

A document titled "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" has just come to my attention. I have never been any more infuriated since I read one particular document that suggested that the department of Homeland Security should have to report every instance of copyright infringement they find to the RIAA!

I feel as if I had just watched one of those NWO conspiracy videos. I hope that the many ambiguities in this proposal can be removed because the truth is that all things will be at sometime abused and I can only see an end to the "innovation and creativity" that this document claims to protect when this document becomes subject to abuse.
The overall spirit of the document is counter piracy. However, what is being ignored, and has been ignored since the founding of the RIAA, is that a person that intentionally attain a product illegally originally intended to not attain the product legally. That is to say that a person has proven that they can not be considered a potential source of revenue once they have proven to a pirate. It can be further stated that a pirate, in the purely intellectual property sence and only in the intellectual property sence, has technically done no harm as there has been no loss. That does not go to say that a pirate can not cause harm. e.g. Distributing faulty medical equipment(a fake copy of such equipment) will definitely cause harm, however that goes beyond piracy. In short, piracy itself, that is document suggests to place so much resource against, is little more than an annoyance.

There is one line that I, even as I am an IP rights holder, particularly do not like. It suggests that an institution be founded with the right to persue legal action against anyone it sees as having infringed on any IP right prior to and without the consent of the IP right holder. Can someone explain to me how any such institution is to know who is authorized to distribute any product without first consulting the rights holder?

I like the idea that my copyrights could be protected on a global scale. I don't like anything else about this proposal.
This proposal needs to be rewritten! I don't want anyone harassing my, or anyone else's, customers!