ACTA is an international trade agreement negotiated by the
European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea,
Australia, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore as well as a few other countries,
whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence
its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).
The main problem with this treaty is that all the negotiations
were done secretly, keeping the public and civil organizations out of
the table. All the information until 2010 relied on leaks that reveal
intentional secrecy to misled the public. ACTA negotiations started on
2007 and finalized in 2010.
