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Fourth European Committee Rejects ACTA

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-for-the-high-score dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "Last month, ACTA was rejected by three European committees (the industry committee, the civil liberties committee, and the legal affairs committee). Now, a fourth European committee, the Development Committee, has voted to reject ACTA as well, making it zero for four. ZeroPaid is offering a quick timeline of the series of blows to ACTA all last month as well. The next stop for ACTA will be the Trade Committee which is scheduled to hand down a decision later this month on June 21. From there, it'll head to the full House for a vote in July."

10 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. The Europeans have solved Greece by tlhIngan · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's how Greece and Spain and France are going to be bailed out - just reject ACTA and hope the MPAA throws more money that way to encourage them to reconsider.

    Free money too - no pesky austerity measures or anything.

    1. Re:The Europeans have solved Greece by Luckyo · · Score: 2

      Not funny. Sums involved are simply from different worlds. We're looking at about five to seven orders of magnitude of difference.

    2. Re:The Europeans have solved Greece by Rakshasa-sensei · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not according to the calculations provided by MPAA and RIAA.

  2. Author of ZeroPaid article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Outtake from the guy's bio:

    A journalist in the field since 2005 [..] With journalism techniques he's been able to pioneer in the business (such as coverage in Canada and in non-English countries), he has the skills to be at the forefront of file-sharing and technology news.

    Pioneering coverage of Canada and "non-English countries" since 2005! There have to be some serious journalism techniques in play here...

  3. Re:Any chance left? by Kergan · · Score: 2

    Whether it succeeds or fails in Europe isn't relevant. The real deal is China and whether anything they pass there is actually enforced.

  4. Let us remember .... by Greymoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Although ACTA is more than just copyright infringement enforcement, let us remember that extended copyrights are nothing more than a rights holder stealing your cultural history.

    Fix that first.

  5. Re:Any chance left? by davester666 · · Score: 2

    What exactly is the point of all these votes? Are they just putting it in front on any committee's they can find, hoping one of them will pass it?

    If all the committee's reject it, why have the full House vote on it? If they'll vote on it anyway, why have these committee's vote on it if it makes no actual difference?

    And yes, I'm pissed that the Canadian gov't bent over and took it from the US over ACTA, as well as following up with legislation for even more repressive copyright crap.

    --
    Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
  6. Re:Any chance left? by cbope · · Score: 2

    If it ultimately fails in Europe, ACTA is effectively dead. It doesn't matter what happens with China at that point if Europe doesn't sign on. I don't recall the number immediately, but there is a minimum number of countries that must sign the agreement for it to be valid and with the European countries out of the mix there aren't enough first-world countries left to achieve the minimum required.

    Thanks to the grassroots movement here in the EU, the politicians are finally seeing the light that we do not want ACTA in any shape or form. This is how democracy should work.

  7. Re:Any chance left? by tao · · Score: 2

    Because the committees are just recommending YES/NO based on their specific area of (sometimes "so-called") expertise.

    For instance, a committee specialised on power and industry might be totally for opening another coal mine. A committee specialised on environmental issues is probably gonna be against it.

    Since ACTA is a trade agreement, the Trade committee is the main committee, and their recommendation thus -- normally at least -- carries the most weight.

    In the end though, the representatives in the parliament are the ones deciding whether or not to follow the recommendations of the committees. The EU parliament can be quite unpredictable from time to time...

  8. Yippee by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 2

    That'll learn those cockroaches! They will never dare approach the kitchen again!