re: #115 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Most of the IP theft I saw was very small scale and local. It wasn’t as if there was a giant factory just outside of Jakarta pumping out copies of “The Expendables.” Sure it costs us some money but a treaty isn’t going to do much to stop some guy from duping DVDs on a home computer and then selling them at the local outdoor market.

I agree with comments upthread that we need to see what’s in the TPP before we can really know whether it’s a raw deal or not. However the odds of it being a good deal are low if the usual suspects (i.e., chamber of commerce, US copyright goons) were the only interests that were taken seriously when putting it together.