Re:Why I signed ACTA
by tptacek on Thursday February 02, 2012 @01:11PM
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Countries don't need protection from treaties to censor the internet.
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Countries don't but governments and politicians very much do. "It's required from us by the EU" is already a common excuse, this is yet another treaty that will be used that way -- it solidifies the current copyright regime making it more difficult to introduce changes later.
Re:Why I signed ACTA
by thebigshane on Thursday February 02, 2012 @01:58PM
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This is the part I was referring to:
In a nutshell, it gives each signatory authority to
create laws that satisfy ACTA's requirements. Without
getting into the issue of monism and dualism
(international legal concepts for how treaties embed
themselves into domestic law) it simply means that until
signatory states create enforcing legislation, ACTA does
nothing.
An example would be that, once passed, a US federal act
that enforces ACTA is immune from challenges over states
rights (though not bill of rights challenges). To be
frank this isn't too controversial, there is nothing in
ACTA that doesn't satisfy the inter-state commerce
clause anyway.
So undersand that ACTA isn't really the issue. What
people need to be prepared for is how states implement
it, which is where scope for abuse is.