European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA

An anonymous reader writes "European Parliament today adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 which basically tells the Commission to all but drop the negotiations. From the article: 'Citizens from all around Europe helped to raise awareness about ACTA among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by collecting, one by one, more than 369 [of the MEPs'] signatures. With Written Declaration 12/20103, the European Parliament as a whole takes a firm position to oppose the un-democratic process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and its content harmful to fundamental freedoms and the Internet ecosystem.'"

Comments

Re:About Fucking Time

[sznupi]

Goddamn commies.

Wow, really impressed

[Anonymous Coward]

369 signatures all over Europe, that's really an achievement. Seriusly, I never believe that it will possible to make that numbers of europeans agree.

Whoda thunk it?

[kimvette]

Who would have ever thought that European nations would ever be more concerned about liberty and due process than The united States of America? We were once called the "land of the free" and "the land of opportunity" but we're running headlong toward becoming the fascist, socalized nanny state that everyone hates to live under.

Time to segregate the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Those EU wankers only voted against this because they enjoy pirating US originated movies and music. Well, times up, I say. Block all Internet connections to Europe! That will slow down the piracy! It's not like our citizens steal *their* crap -- ha! they have nothing worth stealing! -- so we won't even notice it. Solid plan, amiright?

Re:About Fucking Time

[Anonymous Coward]

And the dinosaur seems to be getting fatter year by year.
If one creates a governing body, it's going to govern. And when all the stuff it was created to handle are taken care of, it's going to look around for new things to govern.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that the EU as it was described to us voters, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, was a good idea. But it really should have gone into a kind of maintenance mode by now.

Re:This isn't over?

[Shotgun]

It would be one of the most expensive and idiotic strategies ever.

That didn't stop Obamacare in the US. I think you underestimate the willingness of politicians to jerk the populace around in return for some short-term gain. 8*)