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ACTA Signed By 22 EU Countries

Posted by timothy on from the bad-acta-ors dept.

First time accepted submitter azrael29a writes "22 EU members signed the controversial ACTA treaty today in Tokyo. However, the signatures of the EU member states and the EU itself will count for nothing unless the European Parliament gives its approval to ACTA in June."

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  1. Re:Say no to ... by johnvile · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There Masters aren't saying "Yes" there saying "yes yes yes" whilst the American government rams law up there ass.

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  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll have to admit, I'm having trouble understanding why so many nations want to sign this monstrosity. Why the US wants it globally accepted is obvious, we don't really manufacturer what we used to. A significant portion of our economy has moved to a creating ideas, instead of things, then selling those ideas at massively inflated prices. But why other nations would fight so hard to get this kind of thing implemented in their own countries, which won't benefit them, but in fact will likely be a determent to them, such treaties/legislation. Is there massive amounts of money paying off foreign politicians behind the scenes that I'm not seeing.

  3. Re:Say no to ... by Dyinobal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't so much the American government as the corporations, who don't really have a nationality.

  4. Re:It isn't so much by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Borrowing Animal Farm:

    "And then they looked from the government to the corporation, from the corporations back to the government, and they were unable to tell the difference."

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  5. Re:No vote required. It's a done deal. by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to have missed the part where the Senate has to vote to accept any treaty. Clinton signed Kyoto, but the Senate unanimously rejected it anyway.

  6. They have every reason to by Brain-Fu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The wealthy members of every nation are, naturally, united in their desire to remain wealthy. The introduction of globally-enforced artificial scarcity appears to be a great way of doing that. It isn't like the wealthy members of EU would rather see ACTA vanish, but are bowing their heads in submission to America. They are happily jumping at the chance to enter into such an agreement, because it directly benefits them. Or so they think.

    Such oppression will only fan the flames of rebellion, and law enforcement will always have limits.