Mexico pulls out of ACTA treaty while experts say it's been de-fanged

[thewayne]

"With the news that the EU Parliament is not happy with ACTA and threatening to reject it, now comes the news ... that the Mexican Senate has voted unanimously to withdraw from ACTA negotiations. ... The resolution points out that access to information is a key point in helping to build a modern, information-based nation, and ACTA is about removing access to information and knowledge. They're not against ACTA entirely, but think that the process needs to be a lot more open and involve a lot more stakeholders, and say they won't agree to ACTA unless the process includes a much larger group in the discussions"...

GO MEXICO! Much power to them!

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101005/17320811304/mexican-senate-unanimously-votes-to-remove-mexico-from-acta-negotations.shtml

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/06/2321203/Mexican-Senate-Votes-To-Drop-Out-of-ACTA

Meanwhile...

"The United States is caving on the internet section of a proposed international intellectual-property treaty, meaning its one-time quest to globally dictate draconian copyright rules has come to an abrupt halt."

Somehow I don't think the US??AA will take that stuff out without a fight.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/act-internet-freedom/


It's heartening to see some countries noticing that ACTA is far more insidious than the US??AA would like you to know/believe.

Comments

[silveradept]

It's good to see other countries deciding to bail on it. Media cabals don't need any more power to ruin lives than they already have. Hopefully, after they get up from the testicles-kicking they just got, they'll decide to play nice.