Much of ACTA isn't particularly controversial, and much of the rhetoric around it has been overblown. Back in 2008, we noted that hysterical talk of "iPod-scanning border guards" was unhelpful, drawing attention away from the true area of concern: the worldwide imposition of the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Stung by those headlines, however, the negotiating governments went out of their way to deny that border guards were going to rifle through luggage looking for illicit music, and indeed the consolidated text shows that there are no less than four explicit proposals to exempt personal, noncommercial luggage from ACTA's proposals.
But the DMCA bits of the treaty are also in evidence, demanding widespread adherence to a "no circumvention of DRM" rule. Countries like New Zealand and Japan are fighting this, along with the insistence that ISPs have some sort of "plan" to curtail repeat infringement by subscribers, but the US is pushing hard (and drafted the relevant sections).
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