New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development have released from documents on the ongoing ACTA negotations.
http://news.business.govt.nz/news/strategic/article/9761

Smarter people than me have read these, and found nothing new revealed.

The last round of negotiations was in Mexico - the next round of talks is right here in New Zealand.

quick recap:

ACTA (anti counterfeiting trade agreement) is a treaty currently being negotiated by the world's weathiest countries, including New Zealand. It is officially about things like stopping the fake prada handbags trade - but there's also been leaked documents showing that big media have been asked for their wishlist such as 3 strikes internet disconnection that we protested so loudly against in NZ's s92a of the Copyright act.

It would be disastrous to have stopped such New Zealand laws that give out punishment (internet termination) without trial or appeal, like the s92a did, only to have it implemented anyway via a treaty that our parliament ratifies. Now is the time to make noise.

This need to stop fake prada is so important, it's been classed as "National Security", so none of us lowly citizens are allowed to know what's actually being negotiated. This also is not standard practice for treaty negotiations to be secret.

All Official information act requests, in several countries, have been unsuccessful in finding out what they're putting into this treaty - cos, you know, national security.

The next talks are in Wellington in April - standby for more info later on citizen action.

ACTA negotations involving New Zealand are still guided by people who think copyright infringement is equivalent to terrorism.. and when a crime is as bad as terrorism then we don't get a trial. (That logic appears often this century)

National Party (NZ's new government) coud be reviewing our insane new copyright law, perhaps fixing the section 92A and 92C "guilty apon accusation" clauses - but possibly adding more wishlist of BigContent owners at the expense of New Zealander's freedoms.
quoting from http://www.stuff.co.nz/4763648a28.html

"National has said it is open to a "complete review" of copyright
legislation and there is speculation it may intervene to stop 92A taking effect."

I'm working working working - doing a few "middle of the morning" (aka 4am) changes in corners of telcos.

and I'm moving house - new place is definitely a student pad, cheap, no dishwasher, no bath, no gas, no heating :-( but it's cheap and close to the city and has a lawn access via a tall ladder that has 270 degree views of the city. Previous tenants used it as a Stoner Lawn - we'll be making it an Epic Beer Drinking Lawn.

I'm shopping for new gizmos again.

I'd quite like a treoo 500 that ran anything but windows. But such a thing doesn't exist. So perhaps a N95 8Gbyte. These pretty pretty phones have wifi, symbian, and 8Gbytes of memory for storing stuff. It doesn' t have the large video screen that the palm has, but it's the best i can find.

I'm shopping for new gizmos again.

I'd quite like a treoo 500 that ran anything but windows. But such a thing doesn't exist. So perhaps a N95 8Gbyte. These pretty pretty phones have wifi, symbian, and 8Gbytes of memory for storing stuff. It doesn' t have the large video screen that the palm has, but it's the best i can find.

Nokia n95: Photo by Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0