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EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-news-everybody dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'The European Parliament defied the EU executive today (10 March), casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice.'"

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  1. The 13 votes by metlin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd be curious to see the political/national/corporate affiliations of the 13 that voted for it. Maybe publish the details, to let people know how these folks were *cough* looking out for their "interests".

    I'm always surprised when a minority votes for something that most unequivocally consider at the very least bad, if not downright evil.

  2. Wow, there's some intelligent life left on Earth by m509272 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nice to see not everyone in "government" is controlled by Hollywood

  3. Wow - by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You mean there's still a legislative body that isn't a wholly owned subsidiary of their corporations?

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    1. Re:Wow - by DaveGod · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well this looks promising but no reason to take the pressure of them yet. Something I find odd with voting is that something can be effectively reintroduced continually until it is accepted, whereas it is much harder to reject something once accepted.

      If we were to be highly sceptical we could point out that these guys weren't involved in the talks so could just be actioning their annoyance, or negotiating for their cut. Or, remember there were corporations - local corporations - who were set to suffer from this legislation. Maybe the ISPs were wiser with their 'donations' than the American-led movie and music lobby.

  4. Re:663:13 !? by lordholm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Firstly, the vote was not against ACTA, it was a resolution to force the Commission to open up the documents (See one of the Pirate Party MEPs blog: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/epic-win-for-transparency-on-acta/ or the official EP website http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/026-70281-067-03-11-903-20100309IPR70280-08-03-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm). The article is very very wrong. The 13 against are listed in the EUPs roll calls.

    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+PV+20100310+RES-RCV+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN

    The following are against (by their EU party grouping)
    EFD: Agnew, Andreasen, Batten, Bufton, Colman, (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Farage, Nattrass, Nuttall
    NI: Bontes, Sinclaire, Stassen, van der Stoep

    These are from the UK and the Netherlands. All of them UKIP (British anti-eu party) or PVV (Dutch anti-islam party).

    The British MEPs are the following
    UKIP: Andreasen, Agnew, Batten, Bufton, Colman, Farage, Nattrass, Nuttall
    Previous UKIP (expelled): Sinclare

    The Dutch ones the following
    PVV: Bontes, Stassen, van der Stoep

    I have not bothered to include the ones who abstained their vote.

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