[Afterdawn] Is ACTA a foregone conclusion or will it meet SOPA’s fate?

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Is ACTA a foregone conclusion or will it meet SOPA’s fate? With all the furor over SOPA and PIPA in recent months, the signing of the ACTA trade agreement last October by the US, Japan, and a handful of other countries has largely been ignored. […]

A legal analysis of ACTA […] was produced last year by European Parliament’s Legal Service, it was handled just as secretively as the treaty’s negotiations. A request from the non-profit Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) requesting the text of that analysis was denied, and FFII’s complaint that such secrecy violates EU law ignored.

What has been released is a « fact-sheet » from the European Commission […] expressing support for ACTA. However, a French Internet freedom advocacy group called La Quadrature du Net has published a rebuttal which argues just the opposite. You can find the full text of that document below. […]

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