ACTA: Like SOPA except fucking everywhere

[Grouch]

whoops ok i deleted my earlier post.
thanks for the heads up grouch.

no problem

[Lightbeast]

I don't like the looks of this, i hope its not as bad as it seems.

[Kuro Kagami]

I don't like the looks of this, i hope its not as bad as it seems.

It's just as bad as it seems... even worse than SOPA (as this time it's not just the US, but a quite a lot of countries)

Such shit should never be allowed to pass/exist

[Bennieboi20]

this bill has been around for a lonng time, but it was depated completly in secret the only way the public found out was through wikileaks which is the most disturbing part of all, if we were to do another black out it would have to include companies like google twitter etc, otherwise we have no hope

EDIT:
Artical on ACTA and TPP

[Elmdor Rizer]

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-o...ounterfeiting/, see also: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/doc...doc_148964.pdf

What's so secret about it? And just how different is it really from, like, the TRIPS-treaty or whatever?

1. ACTA is a secret agreement. Negotiations were not transparent and conducted
"behind closed doors". The European Parliament was not fully informed.
The text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is publicly available to all.
The negotiations for ACTA were not different from negotiations on any other international
agreement. It is a fact that such agreements are not negotiated in public, but with the
Lisbon Agreement and the revised Framework Agreement there are clear rules on how
the European Parliament (EP) should be informed of such trade negotiations. And these
have been scrupulously followed. Trade Commissioner De Gucht has participated in
three plenary debates, replied to several dozens of written and oral questions, as well to
two Resolutions and one Declaration of the EP, whilst Commission services have
provided several dedicated briefings to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
during the negotiations.
Likewise, the public was informed, since the launch of the negotiations about
the objectives and general thrust of the negotiations. The Commission also released
summary reports after every negotiation round and the negotiating text since April 2010.

6. ACTA will lead to the introduction of a '3 strikes' system for internet
infringements, or to demands for internet service providers (ISPs, to monitor or
filter the data they transmit.
ACTA does not provide for a "3 strikes" or a "graduated response" system to
infringements over the internet. Neither does it oblige Internet service providers (ISPs) to
monitor or filter content of their users. ACTA is fully in line with the relevant EU
legislation, in force since 2000 (E-commerce Directive).

9. ACTA should only cover counterfeiting (trademark infringements) of goods. It
should not cover copyright infringements, particularly on internet.
Providing for enforcement of a broad range of intellectual property rights (IPR)
infringements is necessary, since a large spectrum of EU economic operators rely on
economic activities that need intellectual property protection (e.g. geographical indications

It's the fucking European Union. They've had directives saying "stop filesharing, m'kay?" out for 10 years now and most member states haven't done shit. Am I really naive/missing something here or is this a case of no one understanding EU-legislation?

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