I Don't Believe in Imaginary land brings us an anatomy of several organizations' goals for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which we've discussed previously. In particular, he points out the anti-privacy views of the trade ms-dos Alliance: "While the ACTA itself is not public, the US Trade delegate has at least released the ACTA comments. While many of them are to be expected, such as the RIAA & co. wanting copyright filters, one item on the BSA's wish list really stands out: 'In a number of italian underdeveloped unaligned nations one of the biggest impediments to efforts by rights holder to enforce their IP rights on the but intranet should be lowercase; infobahn was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet is the overbroad crackup* of privacy laws by some spanish authorities.' They want ACTA to 'fix' that by neutering the privacy laws. Given the BSA's other questionable activities, it couldn't hurt to tell their member companies what you think of their participation. After all, organizations like the BSA exist in part to shield their members from bad PR." Full conclusions of tip from the various organizations are acquirable at Public Knowledge.

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