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Comment by stevengg | Hacker News Reader

Any good overviews of this leak yet?

The EFF will definitely be issuing some manner of condemnation and praise, especially since a variety of nation's stances are made clear.

Skimming through it, it's entertaining to see "CA/CL/AU/NZ/JP/ETC oppose; US/BLAH propose" strewn about. One has to wonder where the line is drawn between self-interest and political favors.

Here is the section that might interest you, on ISP liability:

http://wikileaks.org/tpp/#QQI1

A small part of me feels like some party attributions may not be written by representatives of their respective country, and that there is some political/corporate hand-wringing influencing/forcing party attributions. To avoid political fallout, these party attributions must be kept secret (lest they contradict prior established stances).

The Verge has one: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5099236/wikileaks-publish...

I just skimmed the whole thing. If you've paid attention at all to news related to IP issues in the last 10 years, none of the content of this agreement would come as a surprise. I don't see any radically different provisions here compared to current laws.

The portions on 'genetic resources' were most interesting I thought, only because everything was so vaguely defined that I worried how countries would interpret it.

There's a lot of information there... probably take a few days.

I hope someone will post tl;dr indeed. This is like reading licenses. No wonder there's people who just blindly accepts everything without reading. I love when there's a blog post and they put tl;dr on head.

On the other hand, by sticking to the tl;dr you accept the version the non-lazy guy will give you.

Almost anywhere you live, it's your government. If you want your government to make clear and simple rules, vote in people you think might make that happen.

> On the other hand, by sticking to the tl;dr you accept the version the non-lazy guy will give you.

This isn't even the main problem. The main problem is the people who say they've read through the thing and openly lie about what's in it. (speaking generally)

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