The saga of the misleadingly named "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" has only gotten more ridiculous since I decried it in November.

For those of you whose eyes (understandably) glaze over at any mention of multilateral trade agreements, ACTA is an attempt by the United States and dozens of other countries to write new rules to combat counterfeiting of trademarked goods, as its name suggests, and to stop copyright violations as well, a goal left out of its moniker. (If you've got a spare 90 minutes, you can watch a video of a panel discussion I led about ACTA at Google's Washington offices last month.) [...]

Now remember that the discussion about ACTA is just getting warmed up. I can only imagine what will happen when the more... motivated Tea Party types start paying attention to stories with headline descriptions like "SECRET COPYRIGHT TREATY." Care to take a guess at how the debate will turn at that point?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/02/acta_absurdity_co...