EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA

Dupple tips a story at Techdirt about comments from EU commissioner Karel De Gucht, who made some discouraging remarks to the EU International Trade committee about the opposition to ACTA: "If you decide for a negative vote before the European Court rules, let me tell you that the Commission will nonetheless continue to pursue the current procedure before the Court, as we are entitled to do. A negative vote will not stop the proceedings before the Court of Justice. ... If the Court questions the conformity of the agreement with the Treaties we will assess at that stage how this can be addressed." De Gucht also spoke about proposing clarifications to ACTA if Parliament declined to ratify it, which, as Techdirt points out, doesn't make much sense: "Remember that ACTA is now signed, and cannot be altered; so De Gucht is instead trying to fob off European politicians with this vague idea of 'clarifications' — as if more vagueness could somehow rectify the underlying problems of an already dangerously-vague treaty."

Comments

Re:As an American...

[lennier]

Thats because if they did that here, people have GUNS.

And your politicians have nukes. Your move.

Re:ruling class gonna rule

[lennier]

There are other very powerful interests who want to keep the Internet open and operational.

Thank goodness the spambots have achieved both sentience and political consciousness!

Re:Typical europe

[ColdWetDog]

Typical Europe.

Bar Nigel Farage, who is the Chuck Norris of politics, it's like watching monkeys at typewriters.

A model parliament should be like in Star Trek dammit!

Which episode? The one with Tribbles?

Re:As an American...

[ATMAvatar]

Pretty much, no. The information can't be faked. The launch officer is the last guy in the chain that knows his bird's target.

I would have thought the target would be the last guy in the chain to know the target.