"Anti-counterfeit" Treaty Becomes Hollywood Wet Dream

Well, this was likely to happen when Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions^™ said that "national security" required that the negotiations be conducted in the deepest secrecy.

Here are the bullet points:

• ISPs would be required to aggressively and intrusively troll their user's data for evidence of copyright violations.
• ISPs would have to cut users off without any sort of judicial proceeding.
• Breaking anti-circumvention technology for a legal purpose becomes illegal.

Unfortunately, since Hollywood gives to Republican, you can be sure that the Dems in Congress will be cool with letting the folks who gave us Gigli determining whether or not one has a right to be on the Internet.

Details here, here, here, here, here, and here.