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EU parliament rejects piracy pact

Published: 4 Jul 2012 at 21.53
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The European parliament on Wednesday threw out a controversial global pact to battle counterfeiting and online piracy, quashing any EU ratification and possibly killing it for good.

Twenty-two of the 27 EU states as well as other countries, including the United States and Japan, signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in January but the treaty has yet to be ratified anywhere amid protests that it would curtail Internet freedom.

The parliament ignored European Commission pleas that the treaty was needed to protect the economic interests of companies hit by counterfeiting and online piracy.

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skunkie
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Discussion 5 : 05 Jul 2012 at 17.025
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Switzerland has NOT signed ACTA and has actually halted all procedures going towards that move as it was waiting for a decision within the EU. Now that a decision in the EU has been taken It is most probable that Switzerland will abandon this matter completely.
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RE: D2. tomb ... what is it about the protection of intellectual copyrights that disturbs you? Do you writers should have a right to sell their own work. and inventors should have the rights to profit from their own inventions and companies should have the right to profit from their own brands? Do you think singers and actors should have the right to profit from there own work?
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I'm sorry but I find it hard to feel sorry for large conglomerates who lose money via the Internet. It should be a free platform for the people. Finally, some common sense! This is all about control of the masses for the gains of a few. If you want to worry about something, worry about the lack of decision not made on your behalf in Mexico recently. Again, this ridiculous meeting was under pressure from conglomerates to make noise but agree to nothing that would cost money.
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Discussion 2 : 05 Jul 2012 at 08.072
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Acta is dead. Great.

This bill smacked too much of complete government control, big brotherism.

Governments around the world should get their priorities straight. Is defending big corporate profit now more important than anything else?
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Discussion 1 : 05 Jul 2012 at 06.241
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I guess it is perfectly o/k then to copy all the designer brands of Europe and sell them as original anywhere in the world? I guess it is o/k for the copying of movies, music, and software, and copyrighted books and articles,can be simply used as will because "culture, knowledge, agriculture, health and public liberties are the property of everyone?
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