« The US wants Acta to force ISPs [Internet Service Providers] to put in place policies to deter unauthorized storage and transmission of IP [Intellectual Property] infringing content (for example clauses in customers’ contracts allowing a graduated response) » […]
The Acta talks are taking place outside all existing multilateral treaty-making bodies such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the UN or the WTO. They are also taking place in extreme secrecy, making it impossible for elected politicians, media or the public to get access to official documents. […]
« Acta continues its career as the most shocking circumvention of democratic governance in the already long history of copyright and patent regulation, » Jeremie Zimmerman from the France-based internet freedom pressure group, La Quadrature du Net, has said.
« The interest groups and fundamentalists of property on information, culture and knowledge are trying to find hidden paths, such as multilateral agreements, for co-operating governments to push forward their agendas in complete secrecy. »
http://euobserver.com/871/29098/?rk=1/