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ACTA Document Leaks With Details On Mexico Talks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tinfoil-hat-engaged dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A brief report from the European Commission authored by Pedro Velasco Martins (an EU negotiator) on the most recent round of ACTA negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico has leaked, providing new information on the substance of the talks, how countries are addressing the transparency concerns, and plans for future negotiations. The document notes that governments are planning a counter-offensive to rebut claims of iPod-searching border guards and mandatory three-strikes policies."

6 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Three strikes policies? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Man, that buzzword just keeps coming up. Can you imagine if baseball was based around 4 strikes instead of 3?

  2. Re:Sounds on the up and up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or just stop correcting people. all you trolls really should find something better to do with your time. Find a life, meet a girl, go out and do something like see the sunlight. Shitheads.

  3. They are "committed to conclude ACTA in 2010" by phypsilon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The document is very sparse on details. They seem to be negotiating four topics:
    1. civil enforcements
    2. customs
    3. internet
    4. transparency (wtf??)

    But the most interesting quote is: "Parties remain committed to conclude ACTA in 2010."

  4. A good one yes. by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If my own government is anything to go by (Netherlands) then the counteroffensive will be "you just don't understand it". The time politicians felt accountable to the public has long gone.

    Mind you, the public keeps voting for the same guys over and over.

    The biggest scammers are the media, in Holland you got something called to "kiez wijzer", a site that records the various parties (yes America, you can have more then 2) election PROMISES and ask you how you feel about various issues and then gives a recommendation. It is actually fairly fair, except that the attentive reader will have noticed I said PROMISES. It does NOT base its advice on YOUR preferences and a parties PAST behavior. So the advice in on what parties say they will do, not what they have done. And almost every falls for it.

    --

    MMO Quests are like orgasms:

    You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.

  5. Re:show me what's on the table by VShael · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, same thing applied to the Lisbon treaty. The politicians kept insisting that x,y,z, wasn't in the treaty.
    They ignored the part that said the Treaty could be modified IN ANY WAY in the future without the need for re-ratification.

  6. Bullshit by schon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Counterfeiting is fundamentally about trademarks and copyrights.

    That sentence is complete and utter bullshit.

    If it were true, then why do we have counterfeiting laws? Why not just prosecute under trademark and copyright?

    If it were true, why do we talk about counterfeit money, when money is neither trademarked or copyrighted?

    If it were true, why is passing off a fake DaVinci counterfeiting?

    As Entropius said - counterfeiting is primarily about fraud. It can deal with trademark infringement if the product is marked, and it can deal with copyright if (as I said) the copyright infringement is large-scale for-profit copying with the intent to pass it off as the original. But it's fraud that makes it counterfeiting, not the trademark or copyright status.