[EFF] Blogging ACTA Across The Globe: The View from France

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La Quadrature Du Net is a French advocacy group formed to promote digital rights and online freedom. Its name comes by analogy between the unsolvable mathematical problem of « squaring the circle », and similarly impossible attempts to « effectively control the flow of information in the digital age by the law and the technology without harming public freedoms, and damaging economic and social development ». In our ongoing series of perspectives on ACTA from around the globe, today Jérémie Zimmermann and Félix Tréguer of La Quadrature du Net describe how the trade agreement undermines democratic challenges to IP policies in France and beyond. […]

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/acta-and-france