This still doesn't include a definition of the term. As I understand it, it is basically when policies that would never pass through congress (such as many of the original provisions of the DMCA) are implemented by inserting them in an international treaty congress is somehow forced to pass in order for us to remain compliant on an international level or else face trade sanctions, etc. Then they become the law of the land without congress ever really being allowed to consent.
When I first heard of this term a few years ago, it struck me as a bit imperialist. Not the practice, but the perspective from which one could think of this practice as being anything other than the way a treaty might work: corporate elites use international treaties to subvert local sovereignty. In other countries that don't occupy the imperial center, this is likely the basic expectation--particularly after decades of IMF and now WTO meddling. But in the US they need a special term for it.
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