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Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion

Posted by timothy on from the frustrated-angola-could-not-be-reached dept.

First time accepted submitter willodotcom writes "Germany has joined Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in delaying their signing of ACTA, citing 'time to carry out further discussions' as the reason."

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  1. Very reasonable by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I never grasped how copyright changes could be considered legally urgent. This doesn't mean the treaty will be blocked(it won't be), but at least Germany is taking their time.

    1. Re:Very reasonable by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Pretty much. Further meetings just means "How can we sneak this past the public."

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    2. Re:Very reasonable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not so sceptical please.

      Your democratic checks and balances might be absolutely fucked beyond all hope, to the extent that you live under a corporatocracy, but that isn't the case here.
      Besides, the element of surprise is gone. All further attempts are going to be highly scrutinised, and there are countries that will never sign.

    3. Re:Very reasonable by rtfa-troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And if you identify everyone who attends these meetings and concentrate on getting rid of them you will have struck a very big blow for clearing up politics generally. There are very few issues which as clearly come out as big corporation vs. people. Even better is that in this case it isn't because there are no big corporations on our side, just because they are new corporations which haven't yet worked out how to do corruption (that's why Microsoft is on the other side). This is a really really worthwhile cause and making a list of everyone who ever collaborated with the RIAA, MPAA and big media over this and following up on it to the end could set back the corporate control of government by decades.

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  2. Delaying by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meaning either they're too busy counting how many pitchforks and torches are headed their way..

    or...

    they are merely waiting for the mafiaa to sweeten their payoffs.

    I am not aware of any country involved in the inital back-room negotiations that has announced their unequivocal refusal to sign ACTA, full stop.

  3. OK, so... by jamstar7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They talk about this 'treaty' for months behind closed doors, cross all the i's, dot all the t's, get ready to roll it out, pick up on the groundswell protest against it, and NOW they say they need more discussion on it? Talk about spindoctoring at its finest...

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  4. Re:China by willodotcom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a really cool place to live, and nothing I do in my day-to-day life is going to get me into legal trouble. I define this as freedom.

    I prefer this definition by John Dalberg-Acton: "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."