Comments on: ACTA – The NZ Official Information Requests http://techliberty.org.nz/acta-the-nz-official-information-requests/ Defending civil liberties in the digital age Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vik Olliver http://techliberty.org.nz/acta-the-nz-official-information-requests/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 Vik Olliver Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:44:49 +0000 http://techliberty.org.nz/?p=575#comment-2093 Know who the *sole* country's EU MPs were who voted against opening the ACTA? Yup, you guessed it. All from the UK. Every darned one of them. As I said elsewhere, so fishy you could use it as anchovy substitute. Know who the *sole* country’s EU MPs were who voted against opening the ACTA? Yup, you guessed it. All from the UK. Every darned one of them. As I said elsewhere, so fishy you could use it as anchovy substitute.

]]> By: Matt P http://techliberty.org.nz/acta-the-nz-official-information-requests/comment-page-1/#comment-2056 Matt P Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:11:03 +0000 http://techliberty.org.nz/?p=575#comment-2056 ACTA is the biggest load of tripe I've seen come out of this whole "copyright enforcement" war to date. The EU has basically said they aren't going for it, which will hopefully slow this down, but I'm boggled (and shouldn't be) by the number of allegedly democratic countries that are trying to ram this through by pure sleight of hand. This is pure kow-towing to the US (policy laundering, as Wired aptly called it), and more importantly, to the media industries. What a shock that those crooks are behind every civil-liberties threat to the Internet. ACTA is the biggest load of tripe I’ve seen come out of this whole “copyright enforcement” war to date.

The EU has basically said they aren’t going for it, which will hopefully slow this down, but I’m boggled (and shouldn’t be) by the number of allegedly democratic countries that are trying to ram this through by pure sleight of hand.

This is pure kow-towing to the US (policy laundering, as Wired aptly called it), and more importantly, to the media industries. What a shock that those crooks are behind every civil-liberties threat to the Internet.

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