Slovenia's Ambassador to Japan Helena Drnovsek Zorko has apologized for signing the ACTA agreement on behalf of her nation.
The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resulted from efforts by the entertainment industry to mandate copyright law via international agreement. It was written in secret, with the input of movie and recording industry lobbyists, but with the general public provided ... [ read the full article ]
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"I only had a couple of beers... It was the school bus that through the red light not me!"
It was underhanded, sneaky; they all probably got cash under the table (in a manner of speaking) & we all as a global community are going to pay for it through consumerism. All in the name of "greed". Not 'copyright' or 'capitalism' or 'protection'.
This is as lame of an excuse as my old man saying that he didn't complete college because he, "couldn't make it to classes, because it was the coldest winter recorded in history..." in our area at the time.
Utter, complete, homogenized, purified & dipped in maple syrup, bullshit. "I'm sorry" is just two words. After a while they don't mean shite. I stopped saying them altogether almost 25 years ago. My actions are to now FIX my wrongs if I'm truly sorry. Anything else would be an elongated lie.
There's been and is court cases in Australia in process that have used ACTA to be able to sue people, ACTA is what will have allowed Kim Dotcom to be sued or arrested in New Zealand.
If the Republic of Slovenia didn't sign up to ACTA, and all the other stuff then they won't be able to trade with the USA, making it much harder to import/export between the 2 countries.
And to say she had a choice about signing LOL, you have to be kidding it's up to the ruling party to decide that not some person who only looks after the embassy in Japan.
If people want to complain about things being done in secret them whinge to the US government who want these deals/talks all done in secret.
Originally posted by xtago: If the Republic of Slovenia didn't sign up to ACTA, and all the other stuff then they won't be able to trade with the USA, making it much harder to import/export between the 2 countries.
And to say she had a choice about signing LOL, you have to be kidding it's up to the ruling party to decide that not some person who only looks after the embassy in Japan.
ALL Trade? Probably not likely. Typical taxation & tariffs on inbound goods are what usually happens. The prices being so outrageous that those countries not "playing the game" usually cowtail to the US or simply piss-off somewhere else.
That's the price for making a choice. Understandably, if the figurehead has the ability to make a public statement countermanding the action they made by stating the government made them do it, then do you really think that government is going to let them get away with such a derogatory statement?
Originally posted by xtago: If people want to complain about things being done in secret them whinge to the US government who want these deals/talks all done in secret.
Uuh, this sounds like code already... and as far as I can tell, we (US citizens) DO piss, bitch, moan, whine & complain to no end about these kind of back door deals. They go on all the f*king time! It's maddening how much it happens.
We catch our government doing it 'most' of the time. They have to publicize what they're doing with pretty much non-disclosure. Hollywood & their cronies DON'T. That's how crap like this ACTA (& SOPA/PIPA, almost) got through.
American's had their eye on the ball with the SOPA/PIPA deal. It wasn't until AfterDawn & too damn late that I heard about ACTA. And it certainly wasn't from a lack of caring, I can attest to that.
If people want to complain about things being done in secret them whinge to the US government who want these deals/talks all done in secret.
thats the porblem they are done in secret.SOPA/PIPA was made public and the public went nuts and were against it and it didnt happen.Had ACTA been made public people would of reacted the same way.
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