ACTA nabada staty k zakazu tvorby softwaru, ktery probourava DRM (viz citace nize). Takove programy jsou v soucasne dobe casto to jedine, co umoznuje uzivatelum vyuzit sva zakonita prava na osobni kopie. Zaroven to pravdepodobne bude znamenat znemozneni vedeckeho vyzkumu v nekterych oblastech.
Each Party shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors, performers or producers of phonograms in connection with the exercise of their rights in and that restrict acts in respect of, their works, performances, and phonograms, which are not authorized by the authors, the performers or the producers of phonograms concerned or permitted by law.
Pro opensource a programy jako PGP nebo TrueCrypt muze byt problematicka nasledujici cast:
In order to provide the adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies referred to in paragraph 5, each Party shall provide protection at least against: [...] the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a device or product, including computer programs, or provision of a service that: [...] has only a limited commercially significant purpose other than
circumventing an effective technological measure.
Nemusim vam nejspis pripominat, ze vetsina opensource softwaru komercni vyznam, takze se muzeme vesele pripravit na to, az nekdo bude argumentovat: "Tenhle opensource vyvojar na svem programu vydelal jen 1200 USD, ale v konecnem dusledku zpusobil jeho sifrovaci program skodu 1.7 miliardy USD!"
To se tedy mame na co tesit.

