https://www.eff.org/pages/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement
If you are interested in what will rear its ugly head even if the gathering marches of millions of people manage to defeat ACTA. There is one such march in London on 11th Feb 2012 which I am helping to organise.
They just do not know when to quit do they!
How many more hated and useless laws are there sitting in the pipeline just to maximise some corporations profit margin? Earth is for us humans (and other creatures) corporations DO NOT COUNT. They should be allowed to exist for the benefit they bring to mankind (such as supplying fresh water to the home), not as an end in themselves.
Anonymous speak about the Illuminati and the New World Order. The truth may however be simpler than some grand conspiracy. Corporations act in ways that seem sensible to the people making the individual decisions but combine to form absolutely appalling and genuinely 'evil' looking behaviour patterns.
A good example of this is the appearance of a hate campaign against Android phone vendors by the big corporates. Apple, Oracle and Microsoft are all being vindictive at once about some really tenuous IP claims. As Android gives the public some real choice and by being open has spurred on some great innovation the fact it is being sued has more to say about the rubbish state of IP law nowadays, it has strayed a very long way from the original intentions of 'encouraging authors'.
Just look on the net for Conways 'Game of Life' for a simple example of how a large number of instances of something following very simple rules can lead to very 'life-ike' behaviour. The interaction of our corporations and their quest for profit is a bit like this I feel. The first step to controlling it is to recognise the mechanism.
We the humans need to set some much, much better rules to limit corporate power, and we need to do it NOW.
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