The ACTA treaty is secret for "national security"

James Love reports on the latest attempt to get the text of the proposed ACTA treaty from the US government. "The agreement, misleadingly named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is thought to cover a wide range of intellectual property enforcement issues -- including standards for granting injunctions for alleged infringement of patents or copyrights, damages, seizures of goods in transit, surveillance of Internet digital file transfers, searches of personal property, and a dozen other topics." The answer: the treaty, despite being available to governments and lobbyists, is classified for "national security" reasons and we cannot see it. "Change," it seems, only goes so far.

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