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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I don't think that there will be a huge effort against either suggestion. Neither Hollywood nor Disney is likely to oppose it. And given that both the President and most entertainment industry execs are Democrats, if it is blocked by the trade treaty that the Obama administration is negotiating, I don't think we can pin this on the Republicans.
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Oh, this is totally Obama's fault for letting the lobbyists write the treaty, but the Democrats are the ones resisting fast track. I don't expect the TPP to not get ratified, even if it includes, as expected, a requirement to enact the MPAA's Stop Online Piracy Act, which got dumped by Congress after massive online protests. We obviously won't know until the TPP is released because it's currently classified until it goes up for approval, but from the earlier leaks, I do not expect there will be any allowances for anything except the most strict copyright enforcement imaginable.