From PCWorld.com:

Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend.

In its latest draft, ACTA appears to have gained a preamble in which the parties to the treaty set out broad principles including their desire "to address the problem of copyright or related rights infringement which takes place by means of digital networks in a manner that balances the rights of the relevant right holders, online service providers and users of those networks."

However, a footnote then warns that negotiators will modify this worthy paragraph to ensure it conforms to the text agreed for Article 2.18, Enforcement in the Digital Environment, rather than the other way around.

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Drafts of the treaty have leaked out after most of the negotiating rounds, despite U.S. insistence that the text remain under wraps until it is finished. Most of the other parties to the treaty have been pushing for more openness.

Gee, what a surprise.

The proper wording there should be "...despite insistence by the overlords of the US negotiators, the RIAA, MPAA and Disney..."

Other parties to the negotiations include Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland

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However, the E.U., Japan and New Zealand say only that the term ["effective technical means"] should cover "copy controls," leaving the detail for individual countries to decide for themselves. Others, including the U.S., Australia and South Korea, favor a tighter definition of an effective technical measure as a "technology, device or component that, in the normal course of its operation, controls access to a protected work, phonogram, or protects any copyright." Most countries are willing to provide an exemption, in this clause, for circumventing DRM that serves only to limit the geographic playback of material, such as the region code on DVDs.

Well, yeah, considering that Australia (for one) already requires that all DVD player sold there be region-free...

The article does mention that the wording has been considerably softened, no longer requiring ISPs to monitor all traffic on their networks, turn any file-sharing violators over to the RIAA, MPAA or whoever, and permanently ban anyone caught three times.

The RIAA has already admitted that it (and it's members) can't effectively catch violators, and wants Congress to pass a "voluntary" agreement with ISPs and YouTube and such to have them do its job as well as their own...)