Counterfeiting and piracy have been problems since the industrial revolution, when market capitalism took over the world. These issues often occur across borders and include a range of complex issues, from extradition between nations to military enforcement of international laws. These problems have made successful law enforcement efforts and prosecutions difficult. With the advent of the Internet, counterfeiting and piracy have been able to move online and more effectively escape regulations and laws. Today, the United Nations is seeking to create an international body to combat intellectual property violations related to counterfeiting and piracy, through the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Although ACTA proposes a solution to the problem of online piracy, it tends to treat online enforcement as the same as offline enforcement, which is doomed to be ineffective. I argue that the United States should revoke its signature and refuse to ratify the treaty and instead pursue other avenues for multilateral counterfeiting and piracy prevention. Combating counterfeit goods through intellectual property law has recently become a common theme in American law enforcement. While it is not possible to estimate the total damage caused by undetected intellectual property infringement, the total damage caused by discovered cases of intellectual property infringement alone is staggering. Intellectual property violations harm American jobs, cost the American government and people money, and damage our position as an international hegemonic power. In 2010, the national value of intellectual property seizures of critical technology assets alone was more than $145 million (US Intellectual 6). In June and July 2010 the...... half of the document......ICACIONES O ACTA, POR SUS SIGLAS EN INGLÉS (ANTI-COUNTERFEITING COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT). By Carlos S. Garcia. Mexican Government, September 30, 2010. Web. Translated from Spanish by the Chrome web browser. Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Intellectual Property Theft Act, S. 968, 112th Cong. (2011). Print.Ruse-Khan, Henning G. “From TRIPS to ACTA: Toward a New 'Gold Standard' in Criminal Intellectual Property Enforcement?” Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law 6th ser. 10 (2010). SSRN. Web.Stevenson, Alastair. "Acta: protest petition with one million signatures against trade deal". The time of international affairs. (January 30, 2012)United States Trade Representative. Remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. SchwabAnti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). October 23, 2007. Web.