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<title>European Parliament strikes down ACTA in significant vote</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/04/meps.vote.478.to.39.against.controversial.anti.piracy.measure/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[ACTA has been rejected by the European Parliament in a vote today. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was soundly defeated, with 39 parliament members voting for the agreement, 478 against, and 165 abstentions. The move against the motion practically kills the agreement in its current form, with many critics suggesting it cannot be revived no matter how many amendments are made to it....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>European rapporteur tells EU not to ratify ACTA</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/16/acta.may.be.rejected.outright.if.euro.advice.taken/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US' attempts to push the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) were dealt a possible hit after new European Parliament rapporteur David Martin published (PDF) a recommendation that the representatives for European Union's member states reject the bill.  Echoing the same sentiments that led his predecessor to quit in protest, he saw the "vagueness" of the bill as being overreaching.  Whate...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EU freezes ACTA ratification over possible rights violations</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The European Commission reacted to mounting pressure Wednesday by at least temporarily halting plans to ratify the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) proposal, choosing to pass it to the European Court of Justice for inspection. The continent's high court will decide if ACTA violates fundamental EU rights.  EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht took a balanced position, wanting neither to a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Study: BitTorrent piracy not hurting movie exports</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/10/study.says.artificial.movie.release.windows.hurt/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/netflix-wii3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A joint research paper from the Departments of Economics at both Wellesley College (Brett Danaher) and the University of Minnesota (Joel Waldfogel) has suggested that BitTorrent movie rips and other Internet piracy wasn't hurting movies after they were exported to other countries.  In instances where a US movie hadn't been pirated in advance of its international release, revenue from the movie was...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Germany freezes ACTA signing over concerns</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/10/germany.to.wait.for.eu.decision.on.acta/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Germany is holding off on joining 22 other EU member states in signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Spiegel Online reported. It has changed its mind, as it previously said it would join. The failure of Germany, Europe's largest economic contributor, to sign the agreement is a huge stumbling block. The powers-that-be in German are said to be holding off on a decision until the EU...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>European Parliament ACTA overseer quits over shady tactics </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/26/acta.rapporteur.says.eu.process.a.masquerade/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/euflag-5.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The European Union's chief investigator for the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Kader Arif, may have blown the whistle on tactics behind the deal in a statement following his resignation.  He quit after calling it a "masquerade" and confirmed many of the beliefs that the EU Parliament's signing of ACTA wasn't a representative process.  The political right in the EU "rushe...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>European Union and 22 members sign ACTA </title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The EU and 22 of its member states have signed on to support the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Tokyo on Thursday. The deed was met with both online and street protests, however, as many who aren't copyright holders believe the trade agreement to be nothing more than a new copyright law. Five countries part of the EU who haven't signed up for ACTA include Cyprus, Germany, Estonia, t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Trans-Pacific Partnership would try to take DMCA worldwide</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/11/us.concocts.tpp.rules.that.mimic.acta.laws/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1007/gavel-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US government is attempting to bring a renamed version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that aims to fight piracy to countries such as Australia, Brunei, Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), its intellectual property content is drafted by the US. It follows the DMCA's laws regarding digital locks, ISP liability and subscriber discon...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA, RIAA want AV software with anti-piracy scanning</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/15/mpaa.and.riaa.hope.users.turn.in.themselves/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1004/piratebay-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The MPAA and RIAA have sent a response to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator that would call for software to spy on users for potential piracy.  Answering a request for comments, the music and movie studios would like antivirus software to include tools for "managing copyright infringement" and block or report copyrighted material it finds....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Piracy up in France despite three strikes law</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/12/french.hadopi.law.simply.forced.pirates.elsewhere/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1003/frenchnationalassembly-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[France's three strikes anti-piracy law has actually increased the amount of piracy in the country, a new study has revealed.  Despite the threat of being permanently disconnected from the Internet in the country, frequent downloaders increased their activity 3 percent since the law, also known as Hadopi, passed last fall.  While BitTorrent use did drop from 17.1 percent to 14.6 percent, any who ga...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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