Today the US signed an anti-counterfeiting policy with Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea while Mexico, the European Union, and Switzerland did not, but said they would sign when it seemed "practical" for them. What does this mean for all of the file sharing over the internet? To me, not much.
The policy is supposed to stop intellectual property theft, but we still have major players that have not signed this bill. The governments also have to try to implement this among the people. This is almost completely impossible with proxy browsers such as Tor or proxify. These proxies give the user an IP address from another part of the world and they can access whatever they would like.
It also means something to me that the EU, Mexico, and Switzerland sat in on creating it, but do not find it "practical" to implement right now. Why? I don't know, but I can easily say that these countries can exploit this new agreement. It is not effective to go to battle agreeing to use only water guns if major players on the other sides bring their AK-47s. EVERYONE has to agree and then play by that agreement for no one to get hurt.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/united-states-signs-acta/
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