This Canadian article also mentions that the US and EU are in this deal that could become more widespread if the RIAA etc get their way.
It sounds like rather than put this in through law they are sneaking it in via some sort of trade agreement which will be outside of any normal public scrutiny and we only know the details at all due to someone leaking them
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It looks like the ACTA is even more nightmareish than that with plans to kill off people like the pirate bay and even journalistic sites like wikileaks as well as P2p (regardless of legality of content) and even Region Free DVD players
it is a monumental grab bag of copyright stuff that the entertainment industry have paid their stooges for.
Goodness knows how they plan to ram this down the worlds throats when a lot of it is already beyond the point where it could be got rid of.
Now it's known about there might be some chance of having it stopped as well