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face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Dave Farber
[mailto:dave@farber.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 11, 2012 7:56
AM<BR><B>To:</B> ip<BR><B>Subject:</B> [IP] 'The Economist' And 'Financial
Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: "Dewayne
Hendricks" <<A
href="mailto:dewayne@warpspeed.com">dewayne@warpspeed.com</A>><BR>Date: Feb
10, 2012 8:27 PM<BR>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] 'The Economist' And
'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead<BR>To:
"Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net" <<A
href="mailto:dewayne-net@warpspeed.com">dewayne-net@warpspeed.com</A>><BR><BR
type="attribution">'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off
ACTA As Dead<BR>from the let's-put-it-out-of-its-misery dept<BR>By Glyn
Moody<BR>Feb 10, 2012<BR><<A
href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/11023517730/economist-financial-times-already-writing-off-acta-as-dead.shtml"
target=_blank>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/11023517730/economist-financial-times-already-writing-off-acta-as-dead.shtml</A>><BR><BR>In
the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by
governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that they would not be
ratifying ACTA immediately. That sequence of events, culminating in today's news
that Germany, too, would be holding off, has suddenly made lots of people sit up
and take notice.<BR><BR>But even against that tumultuous background, few of us
would have expected that two of the most serious business publications in
Europe, The Economist and Financial Times, would both go much further than
simply noting the problems the treaty now faces, and declare that ACTA is pretty
much dead.<BR><BR>Under the headline "ACTA up", The Economist says: "Protests
across Europe may kill an anti-piracy treaty", and points out: "Internet
activists used to be dismissed as a bunch of hairy mouse-clickers with little
clout. Not any more."<BR><BR>The Financial Times' headline is "Latest pact on
internet piracy set to be derailed", and the post makes an explicit connection
with SOPA and PIPA:<BR><BR>A controversial international trade agreement, which
campaigners fear would restrict internet freedom looks likely to be delayed or
scrapped, the latest in a string of measures planned to combat online piracy to
falter in the face of co-ordinated protests.<BR><BR>[snip]<BR><BR>Dewayne-Net
RSS Feed: <<A href="http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress"
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