> The problem is with how it got negotiated and signed

How is it different how ACTA got negotiated and signed and how copyright policy in general is being negotiated and enacted? How is ACTA less democratic than stuff like life+70 years and big scale filesharing prohibition and mass lawsuits?

Democracy is generally completely shut out of any decision regarding copyright. This stuff is and always was decided _completely_ in shady backroom deals behind closed doors for the sole benefit of special interests and then enforced against the majority. It has zero connection to peoples will, the natural sense of right and wrong that should be basis of any law, especially laws broadly enforced against the people. I dont think there was ever a case on this planet where any population was actually allowed to vote on "intellectual property" in general. The idea behind it, the decision making process and the enforcement has always been purely autocratic, from the top down, like this thing called democracy never happened.

  > How is it different how ACTA got negotiated
  > and signed and how copyright policy

It was a matter of 'national security' that no one outside of the negotiating body could see it... except copyright lobbyists. Apparently members of Congress (and members of other countries' legislative bodies) are a security risk to an international treaty that's all about how to deal with copyright infringement, but those copyright lobbyists are all on the up-and-up...