Rick Falkvinge writes:
But in such a huge, convoluted and deliberately complex document [as ACTA], how can you determine for yourself whether it’s good or bad?
If ACTA doesn’t change anything, why are they pushing for its passage as if their life depended on it?
This is the industry that
- demands to wiretap an entire population
- argues that citizens should be actively prevented from exercising fundamental rights, such as freedom of speech and expression
- thinks it’s reasonable to sue a small Karaoke manufacturer for 1.2 billion dollars, a student for over 4 million, and a dead grandmother
- uses child pornography as a legal ram to pave the way for their own censorship
- planted rootkits on people’s music CDs and took complete control of their computers
If this industry wants this legislative package so incredibly badly that they’re fighting for their life to get it, while pretending it’s no big deal, all while not even telling lawmakers what it is, that should be enough for anybody to realize it’s a bag of the darkest bloody horrors. Expect it to codify the examples above. And more. Expect it to be much, much worse than SOPA.
http://falkvinge.net/2012/01/28/the-only-thing-you-need-to-know-about-acta/
If any of this is news to you, the original post is full of interesting links.