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Effective copyright is a boon for the American economy, what we have now is not effective copyright and it will only be made worse by the TPP. Instead of trying to crackdown on movie pirates maybe focus should be shifted to the 100s of billions of dollars lost due to stolen intellectual property by Chinese companies mainly corporate espionage or corruption.
China is not party to the deal and thus can't be prosecuted under it - instead you have to go to the WTO. The portions of Asia that are party to it, however, will become limited and less able to commit intellectual theft against the US. The patent protections in the TPP are there because we insisted upon them, because they are good for US businesses, besides being a good Rule of Law issue in and of themselves.