Responding to a call for more transparency on negotiations surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a public “predecisional” draft of the document, as it currently stands, has been released to the public.

Dubbed “Consolidated Text Prepared for Public Release,” the ACTA document ([URL=http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2010/april/tradoc_146029.pdf]PDF[/URL]) was issued following the latest round of negotiations, which wrapped up in New Zealand last week. Prior to this release, all previous versions of ACTA text that made it into the public eye were leaked.

Ars Technica [URL=http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars]waded through the legal-jargon[/URL] to decode the document for us mere mortals. In terms of Digital Rights Management (DRM), the ACTA text, as it reads now, would ban any attempt to circumvent DRM, or “the unauthorized circumvention of an effective technological measure.”
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