Mexico's IP Office Surprised Its Congress By Signing ACTA, And Now Hopes To Win Their Support
from the good-luck-with-that dept
Right after the EU Parliament somewhat emphatically rejected ACTA, there was a report saying that ACTA was pretty much dead in Mexico as well -- especially since the Congress there had been against ACTA since before it was "cool" to be against ACTA. However, the very next day, the Mexican government surprised an awful lot of people by signing ACTA anyway.Of course, the agreement still needs ratification, and that seems like an uphill battle. However, the Mexican IP Office -- major backer of ACTA -- is now claiming that it believes that the Mexican legislature can be convinced to sign on. Of course, it would help if the Mexican IP Office was even the slightest bit intellectually honest. For example, in explaining its reasons for signing on, it points out that the EU signed on -- which is kind of funny coming so soon after the EU Parliament's wholesale rejection of ACTA. Seems like that would be a point worth mentioning, rather than implying that ACTA was going to be implemented in the EU. This move still has the US's fingerprints all over it. The US needed some sort of "win" for ACTA these days, and coming so soon after the US allowed Mexico to enter TPP negotiations, it's hard not to think that there was some horse trading going on here.
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So, if the EU Parliament jumped off a bidge, then Mexico's Legislature should as well?
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- President Gilligan
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Narcotraficantes!
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Yeah, I wonder what we gave away to get them to support this monstrosity.
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Massive rejection of ACTA by EU Parliament. Next day high profile signatory of Mexico to ACTA.
In a day and age where information can spread to hundreds of millions of people in a matter of minutes, does the US government really think nobody is going to notice their attempts at bait and switch?
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Congrats, AZ! You're now Mexicans!
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(Am I wrong to quote B5 here?)
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And I would love to see Big Content go the way of the Dinosaurs.Adapt or go Extinct !
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There's a bit of a difference.
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The technical term for this arrangement is called "seats in the peanut gallery" where they can be completely ignored.
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How'd that "war on drugs" work out? It seems we have entered another "war" on IP now. Stupid.
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