The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe’s highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights. […]
[…] Opponents fear ACTA would lead to censorship and a loss of privacy on the Internet. And the plan to gain court approval of the agreement has left at least some of them unimpressed.
« No legal debate can fix ACTA or give it a legitimacy that by design it cannot have, » said Jeremie Zimmermann, co-founder of the Internet advocacy group La Quadrature du Net.
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