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India Attempts To Derail ACTA

Posted by timothy on from the derail-defang-deny dept.

Admiral Justin writes "Ars Technica is reporting that India is attempting to gather support from other large countries that have been intentionally left out of the ACTA process to actively protest it. India fears that ACTA will eventually be used against it and other countries that were given no chance to be a part of the process of drafting it. Among the primary concerns are the possibility of medical shipments being seized if they use a port in transit that is controlled by a country with a patent on the pharmaceuticals."

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  1. I can relate by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    India fears that ACTA will eventually be used against it and other countries who were given no chance to be a part of the process drafting it.

    As a US citizen, I can relate to that.

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    1. Re:I can relate by siloko · · Score: 5, Insightful

      [India] fears that ACTA will eventually be used against it.

      I find that quite sweet actually. The whole point of excluding the next economic power house is precisely to frame laws which may delay their rise to the top. It is not if ACTA gets used against India but when.

    2. Re:I can relate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As a citizen of any of the countries that are in it, we can relate.

  2. Pleasepleaseplease by dasdrewid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ars Technica is reporting that India is attempting to gather support from other large countries which have been intentionally left out of the ACTA process to actively protest it.

    Please let this mean they're planning an all-out media blitz here in the US. I can see the commercials now, something between between a Tea Party "the government's gonna get you!"/"One World Government is coming!" campaign booster and a Broadview Security "THEYRE GONNA RAPE YOU AND STEAL YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!" commercial.

    Seriously, plan the message carefully and you could run the same commercial on Fox News and PBS/NPR 24/7 and *everyone* would freak out and, hopefully, do something about this filthy excuse for a treaty.

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  3. Profits are more important than lives. by elucido · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So expect ACTA to pass and expect medicine to remain patented and restricted only for use by the richest 1%. It's the way society is designed, whether ACTA is instituted or not.

    The question the modern capitalist must ask themselves is a question of priority. What is more important to you, the lives of poor individuals or profits?

    Corporations have chosen profits but what do individuals choose?

    1. Re:Profits are more important than lives. by OrwellianLurker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We're not a capitalist country anymore; we're corporatists.

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    2. Re:Profits are more important than lives. by AnEducatedNegro · · Score: 5, Insightful

      you're missing the point. i'm saying we're willing to go to cheap labor to make an extra $1.20 per ipad. to answer the OP's question, we're obviously after profit otherwise we'd make electronics here in the states to boost our economy without needing to resort to ACTA

    3. Re:Profits are more important than lives. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      we're corporatists

      Which is just a nice word for fascism

  4. Re:Yep. Yer boned. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We like pushing our laws on other countries.. But theres no way we will allow it to work the other way around.

    Question is, are these even your laws? How many elected officials have insight into these negotiations, let alone the public?

    The whole trade agreement thing is mostly just a way to get countries to commit to laws without letting the democracy thing getting in the way. Just sign here mister prime minister, it's good for business!

  5. Re:India in. Now we only need china, and russia. by future+assassin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the way its going in Canada, Hollywood is already entrenched in out gov pockets even though the majority of Canadian voters don't want the new DMCA. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5079/125/ http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5017/125/ and many more http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php

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  6. Eventually? by Hurricane78 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I quote:

    “Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're lying. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.”

    — meringuoid (568297) @ 2005-11-24 16:40 (#14107454)

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.