Acta comes far too late

Tens of thousands of people are protesting around the world against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Acta, in which 22 EU states have been involved since January 26. The protesters view the agreement as an attack on Internet freedom. But in fact they just want to go on stealing copyrighted material from the Internet with impunity, writes the daily Novinar: "The fact that copyrights are trodden underfoot day in day out on the Internet is not a shining achievement of Internet freedom, but one of its flaws. Although up to now we may have been thankful in private for the era of unpunished piracy, we never seriously believed it would last forever. In fact we must even admit that Acta comes a little late. And even if the devil really is in the detail, there's no getting around the basic idea: you can bicker all you want about what theft is, but not about whether it's forbidden."

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