[governance] FW: [IP] 'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead

[michael gurstein]

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Subject: [IP] 'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA
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Date: Feb 10, 2012 8:27 PM
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] 'The Economist' And 'Financial
Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead
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'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead
from the let's-put-it-out-of-its-misery dept
By Glyn Moody
Feb 10, 2012
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/11023517730/economist-financial-t
imes-already-writing-off-acta-as-dead.shtml>

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.

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.

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."

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:

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.

[snip]

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