Dutch Parliament Rejects ACTA On Human Rights Violations

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February 14, 2012
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acta The controversial ACTA treaty is quickly losing support in Europe.

After a handful of countries already backed off last week, The Netherlands and Bulgaria put their decisions of hold today.

A majority of the Parliament is against the ratification of ACTA.

They only intend to change this position if there’s irrefutable evidence that it doesn’t violate basic human rights.

Right now this is certainly not the case, as professors Douwe Korff and Ian Brown examined ACTA’s compatibility with human rights and concluded:

“Overall, ACTA tilts the balance of IPR protection manifestly unfairly towards one group of beneficiaries of the right to property, IP right holders, and unfairly against others.”

“It equally disproportionately interferes with a range of other fundamental rights, and provides or allows for the determination of such rights in procedures that fail to allow for the taking into account of the different, competing interests, but rather, stack all the weight at one end. “

“This makes the entire Agreement, in our opinion, incompatible with fundamental European human rights instruments and -standards.”

And there is more bad news for ACTA supporters.

In Bulgaria, where more than 10,000 people took the streets in Sofia last Saturday to protest the treaty, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov announced that the country will not ratify ACTA before other EU countries have made up their minds.

“Our country will not undertake any actions, including a ratification of the agreement, until the stance of the other EU member states is made clear,” the Minister said earlier today.

The caving support and doubt among governments makes is less likely that ACTA will pass, although it’s still to early to say something conclusive.

After Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States signed ACTA last October, Europe is the final hurdle to take before it goes into effect.

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JoJo

Oh I see how it is when torrentfreak posts news about a filesharing website being shut down its hot news, but when torretnfreak posts news about a country apposing ACTA no one cares.
- JoJo
  
  oops *file sharing*
  - Guest
    
    Hmmm?
    
    How about: ‘…although it’s still to early to say something conclusive’
    
    Should be: ‘…although it’s still too early to say something conclusive’
    
    Just saying.
- http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
  
  i can see what you mean….but people do care…. i for one ..do
  
  also…. it’s not on the main page which slows it down a tad
  - Sunspot
    
    Reddit has picked it up. But most Americans snooze through this like everything else except Idol. It’ll be a rude awakening some morning when their internet is gone…
    - Bill
      
      Not all Americans are like that, just like not all Europeans are snide aholes who think their crap doesn’t stink. And I have never watched Idol.
    - HelloGoodbyeBlueSky
      
      I disagree. Not all Americans are lathRhic good-for-nothings. I’m American and I’ve always kept up on world news and at least tried to understand other countries. There are many of us paying attention, and not just to ACTA.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/2LPRZJM67KP6AVEF75C4BBCKEQ Mike
      
      Right…because the whole “internet” will just be gone :rofl:
      
      Fucks like you need to keep wearing your tin-foil hat
    - PHEONIX747180
      
      its all bullshit their fighting an up hill battle
- http://twitter.com/erikqj Erik Q.J.
  
  If the referee decides in your favor, you don’t argue. You get back in the game, with a smile on your face. My only comment would be “great news!”. However, that isn’t very interesting, and if everyone did it, any actually interesting comments would be drowned out. I notice that your comment isn’t too substantive, either.
Alyssa Blindy

I presume no one has anything to say. It’s great news though.
Anonymous

Feds are secretly monitoring people without warrants (warrantless surveillance), and if they find something worth pursuing, they use backdated warrants (which is technically illegal), but we (the public) cannot prove otherwise.

This is what they did in MegaUpload’s case. They were secretly monitoring Kim Dotcom (and logging his communications) for years without warrants, and when they had built up sufficient evidence, they launched an official investigation based on illegally obtained warrants. Judges, politicians, feds — all paid by and working for the MAFIAA.

You think the CIA follows rules? They are free to do anything they desire outside of laws, and the FBI being the “domestic” version of the CIA, is also doing the same. They’re playing a dangerous game and it’s the American citizens paying the price.
- PHEONIX747180
  
  its true i say we revolt
- Human Rights Awarenes
  
  Megaupload was also Washing Cash. So they made up non-excising members-customers. That way they made “black cash” ,earned with illegal activities ,White. Thats a thing every hosting company can do.
  
  And i fear more will follow in the future cos i think many filehosters do the same thing as most users wont pay to get an account. Why would they they already pay their ISP to be able to go on the net. If we have to pay for all we do on the net then i think we should also get paid for every article we create on the net. The ones who post articles give ISP users the ability to read something. Without us ‘normal’ people posting articles we are left with a net that only has adverts everywhere and nothing interesting will stay.
  
  HOW slaveminded are those countries that already signed the ACTA ?
  Do YOU really want people like that to represent YOU ?
  Governments are run by people’s representatives ,the parties WE vote for.
  WHY do YOU the civilians from Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States just let this happen ?
  YOUR governments gave away your human rights just like that !
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

I reckon there’s not a snowball’s chance in Hell Florida that ACTA will be ratified in Europe.

But we need to keep up the pressure and you should write to your MEP’s and MP’s urging them to vote against ACTA – even a simple email would do (but you MUST include your name & address so they can confirm you’re a bona fide resident in their Constituency, OK?)

Just keep it polite and factual :)
- Anonymous
  
  if ANY country of the EU or the EU parliament doesn’t ratify ACTA it will not go into effect in any country of the EU
  
  if the dutch actually show a spine and stand by this stance ACTA is now effectively dead in the EU
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Actually, it won’t just go into effect period. The law was written so that unless ALL the countries ratified it, it didn’t matter if ONE or a few countries ratified it.
  - Httpgamb
    
    we the dutch have a straighs and slow political system and we have to wait and see. this is the first step of a loooooooooooong process. the Parliament has not voted on the treaty it self but on resolution to postpone the vote and look at the human rights issus first. so don`t open the campain and start the celebrate yet
  - Illegal Fbi Cia USA Actions
    
    I live in Holland, so i am Dutch, but that spine, well that is bottleneck in our
    parliament.
    
    It would be nice if i can say, “see “”"we did it”" .Our country showed some spine, well with support of other countries we can .
    
    ACTA and all other subjects are Evil, meant to break down not only our freedom but this goes beyond freedom, it will lay a base for world domination.
    
    George bullshit bush called for a NEW World Order, this is just the beginning.
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I’m 12 and what is this?

Great news, just waiting for the UK to say something.. :)

&& I want to know how Switzerland feels about this.
- http://twitter.com/#!/Topperfalkon Topperfalkon
  
  Well, given that the upcoming Communications Bill is going to look into web-blocking,etc. I think it’s very much still on the cards in the UK
- http://huwos.blogspot.com/ HuwOS
  
  Well the UK did sign ACTA back in January…. so you know, British governments tend not to like to think about the things they do, so it’s unlikely they’ll balk now.
Kr0nZ

Damn, this makes me wanna move back to Europe. My government, canada, just bent over took it deep amd hard. And then turns around and says if we don’t agree with it then we support child porn
Mwhahaha

Just how great are the Dutch?
- Guest
  
  They’re really super dooper people.
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(USA) U Suck America

USA 0 – 1 Netherlands
- American
  
  Want to include the other countries too ass wipe?
  - Mouse
    
    why? when this big pile of crap started in the US.
    - Guest
      
      when “Big Brother” started fucking around and fucking everything else up for the US i greatly despise the government
  - Mister
    
    America sucks.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=788625202 Sandy Aj
      
      Don’t blame our lame ass government for stuff that it does. The general population here is totally against the crap the mafiaa and the congressjerk puppets are pulling. the only thing we can do is vote their a$$es out of office, only to replace them with some other corrupt jerk who receives a lot of their election funds from the same people we’re fighting against
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=788625202 Sandy Aj
      
      Don’t blame our lame ass government for stuff that it does. The general population here is totally against the crap the mafiaa and the congressjerk puppets are pulling. the only thing we can do is vote their a$$es out of office, only to replace them with some other corrupt jerk who receives a lot of their election funds from the same people we’re fighting against
  - boooo…
    
    Lose in home soil what a shame!
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GOVFAIL

Singapore Government…Just another regime thats paid for by the entertainment industry. You go on street to protest you’re going in for some whipping.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Hey, there is only so much of that they can do before people REALLY start to push back…. America found that out during the civil rights era.
  - Guest
    
    this is going to turn into the Civil rights Era again because the government has their heads up their asses
Goest

a light of hope from the netherlands that democracy is possible
SomeDude

I hate to say it but as far as the german media reported in Bulgaria (Sofia) only about 300 took to the streets (where did you get the number?)
- PoopCatapult
  
  http://torrentfreak.com/eu-parliament-president-criticizes-acta-anti-piracy-treaty-120212/ – look at the video in this article, not sure about 10k, but that sure as hell isn’t 300. I hate to say but your media is feeding you shit.
  - Guest
    
    just like the media always does because their bias bastards try feeding us shit and say its for our own good
Hadeser

I thought Bulgarian people, including the ones in government had more balls.

So, the cowards don’t dare to take a stance and say: this is our position and we won’t move. Instead they say: whatever the other european nations do we will do.

Come on you cowards, say NO, like the Dutch did. Say NO to ACTA, say NO to American government, say NO to all these greed thieves who want to destroy internet allegedly to make more money, but in fact to restrain freedom.

And say YES to hang all the congressmen, businessmen and all the other mercenary rats that atempt against people’s freedom (or what is left of it)
- nordic boy
  
  People around the world should stand up against American government’s threat to freedom and the very existence of humanity.
Iub

We are all in this together. If we don’t have a community what’s the point.
ANONYMOUS

We need ACTA.
It will spur the world on to a full scale revolt/revolution that has been in the making since the dawn of our tyrannical form of “democracy.” Jefferson was 100% right: we’d have been better off as a small agrarian republic.

I propose letting ACTA pass – only then will the people see how far we have come and actually be motivated to do something besides putting in a few late night calls and a half-assed letter to their congressman/woman. We need organized, large scale skirmishes, outright war with the lazy fat cats and the corrupt government.

This is true for all countries.
Let ACTA pass.
- http://twitter.com/#!/Topperfalkon Topperfalkon
  
  Whilst your suggestion is a possible route, the state of the internet currently is that it is a largely centralised network. By letting the likes of ACTA pass, we are opening the doors for the censorship, closure, and monitoring of the very networks we rely on for communication.
  
  What we really need is more time. Fighting ACTA gives us that and gives us a chance of waking up some of the sheep still buying the corporate line.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    No one is really buying the corporate line…. not even the people in the government who are writing these horrible laws. The problem is that numerous lawmakers are getting…. well, the only reasonable term is ‘bribes’ from various organizations/companies to allow THEM to write the laws that they want in the ways that they want.
    
    That can only be stopped with criminal investigations of elected officials.
    - http://twitter.com/#!/Topperfalkon Topperfalkon
      
      Ok, I’ll rephrase that:
      
      “some of the sheep still content with having the corporate line shoved down their throat at every opportunity”.
      
      The prior version was simply easier to write.
- I’m 12 and what is this?
  
  I agree with Topperfalkon….
  
  … Also, they’d continue to be lazy and not do anything – just like they are now. USA and other ‘developed’ countries have simply forgot how to revolt. We’ve mostly turned into mindless fucks :-
  
  Sad but true…
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ZiggySig

Add Lithuania to the mix! We’ve achieved at least the “needs to be discussed” status here today, and ACTA’s ratification has been shelved indefinitely. Some people have started lobbying to denounce it, don’t know, if it’ll produce anything, but still, very nice activities :).

Also, it’s nice to see Lithuanian protest pictures ;]
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kuzyn_maupy

I have a question (in Polish): a gdyby?my wrócili do normalno?ci i wykre?lili z naszego prawa w Polsce i innych krajach Europy ten ameryka?ski absurd prawny tj, tzw. “w?asno?? intelektualn?” i na podstawie ju? normalnego unijnego prawa bazuj?cego na w?asno?ci materialnej wyst?pili przeciw USA w sposób cywilizowany z pozwem i roszczeniem o zwrot ca?ego mienia, jakie USA przez 100 lat zagrabi?o Europie (i Polsce) w trybie tej gangsterskiej regulacji prawnej, to co by si? sta?o ? III wojna ?wiatowa ?
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Literatemind

Your question is very confuse. Please, rephrase it.

Then, I’ll answer….
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OutrageMcMurderspree

We need the centurions of Anonymous to use a GDSS, with EIS and DSS info, based on the enemy’s TPS info.
Crack out the linear programming, lets see the maximum amount of damage available to us.
Should we localize efforts to maximize impact? Single out a weak animal from the herd? This is what was done to .ie and .nz govs…..
Anonymous

We should keep in mind that no country to date, including those who signed, have yet ratified ACTA. This certainly means that there is still time to kill ACTA and it is certainly right to stand up and do so now. ACTA has long avoided the democratic process and only you can ensure that it now actually gets a democratic hearing.

Here we can see how those behind ACTA have done their utmost best to hide you from the truth of ACTA and that truth is still hidden from both us and most MEPs…
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120217/04283717793/shining-light-actas-lack-transparency.shtml

If we ever write our own proposed law we will certainly hold public consultations in the middle of huge public parks open to anyone for any question or point. It seems fair to rewrite copyright to how the public want it including enshrined Internet rights.
peterbosch

I thought our Dutch parliament only existed of clowns. But now they’ve shown some common sense to reject ACTA. Pfew, glad they did.
There is a flaming discussion going round in the forum of Web Of Trust.
See : https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/20142-alarm-acta-is-coming-let-s-do-something-against-that?comment=128676#comment-128676
http://profiles.google.com/morefunthanwork aikanae whatever

The US doesn’t need to ratify ACTA – at least not according to their legal team (which includes mostly shared RIAA / MPAA lawyers = revolving door). The IP czar office (also a revolving door) just set up shop 2012 – with a budget of $5mil to start. So we haven’t seen it yet because it was signed in Oct 2011.

“It’s coming …..”

Warden and Issa are questioning it’s constitutionality but that’s a longshot considering the coziess with hollywood. Another industry deemed “too big to fail…”
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