The European Parliament has just voted to reject ACTA, which posed a threat to online freedoms. A total of 478 MEPs voted against the deal, with 39 in favour. There were 165 abstentions. MEP David Martin declared it's time to give ACTA its last rites!
Twenty two EU member states had signed the Acta treaty, but it had not been formally ratified. Outside Fourth Reich, ACTA also had the support of the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea.
ACTA encourages freakish governments, such as the brutal government of Greece. On October 18, 2010, the Greek government stole my computer and my life at gunpoint. Mr. Samaras, bring my computer back! Enough is enough! Needless to say, I also demand my life back. Greece, the bully of blogosphere, has crossed the Rubicon against civility, terrorizing and robbing dissident bloggers. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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Giving ACTA to blogbusters is giving gin to alcoholics! Blogbusters galore! Freak! Freak! Freak! The freakish government of Greece, the most corrupt country in Occident, steals computers! Robbing dissident bloggers and locking them in jail is a freakish behavior that does not belong to the European Union, not even to this galaxy! No wonder some vain Greeks boast they come from Andromeda galaxy!
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) muses that if there's one thing that encapsulates what's wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn't know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property enforcement laws to the Internet. While it was only negotiated between a few countries, it has global consequences. First because it will create new rules for the Internet, and second, because its standards will be applied to other countries through the U.S.'s annual Special 301 process.
Negotiated in secret, ACTA bypassed checks and balances of existing international intellectual property norm-setting bodies, without any meaningful input from national parliaments, policymakers, or their citizens. Worse still, the agreement creates a new global institution, an ACTA Committee to oversee its implementation and interpretation that will be made up of unelected members with no legal obligation to be transparent in their proceedings. Both in substance and in process, ACTA embodies an outdated top-down, arbitrary approach to government that is out of step with modern notions of participatory democracy.
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Philippe Aigrain of La Quadrature du Net points out ACTA was initiated and negotiated outside of democratic forums. Its vague wording, when interpreted in light of other ongoing initiatives, leaves no doubt that ACTA is meant to turn Internet intermediaries into a private copyright police. Even worse, it would install a terrible irreversibility in our broken copyright regime and prevent its needed reform.
Jeremie Zimmermann of La Quadrature du Net thanked the members of the European Parliament for the rejection of ACTA, which aims to impose a global trend in policy-making that is toxic for a free Internet and for freedoms. The European Parliament was the only safeguard left, and it acted and took a clear and strong position, and it did not let the Commission have its way towards imposing unacceptable repression.
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