Hello Democracy: Goodbye Acta

[Bikerdude]

http://www.techspot....parliament.html

 

The European Parliament has defeated the international Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA, with a decisive 478 votes against the controversial treaty versus just 39 in favour and 165 abstentions. While 22 of the 27 European member states had already signed up to ACTA, the vote blocks the treaty from taking effect in those states, and will likely hurt its adoption around the world.

 

Another good bit of news, every now and then the EU bureaucratic machine does something good.

[pusianka]

Proudly Lala land was fully against the ACTA and protested in the streets more then other countries of EU(but still our stupid PM signed the damn thing and then said "Sorry" on television - idiot...)

[STiFU]

I almost never participate in protests, so it feels good to see that it was worth making an exception this time...

[7upMan]

Hey pussi, don't forget Germany, where (according to Wiki) 100.000 ppl in 55 cities protested even in the face of arctic temperatures.

[stumpy]

is this the agreement that would have killed of all game modding.

[SeriousToni]

Hey pussi, don't forget Germany, where (according to Wiki) 100.000 ppl in 55 cities protested even in the face of arctic temperatures.

 

That's true. Same here!

[OrbWeaver]

The EU parliament may be large and bureaucratic, but one thing they really don't like is being left out of the loop. A similar thing happened with the software patents directive that the the EU commission and its unelected Microsoft puppets tried to push through a few years ago: the EU parliament made some improvements, the commission tried to ignore them and go ahead with its preferred version, and as a result the parliament voted to scrap the whole thing.

[i30817]

speaking of the comission:

http://boingboing.net/?p=170057

 

classic

Edited July 9, 2012 by i30817