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Even Google now slamming ACTA
- piguy314 16y agoWe need massive public outcry to kill this treaty, unfortunately I don't think we'll get it. IP laws are just to ethereal and abstract for the average American to understand or care about, especially when half of America still ridiculously associates downloading copyrighted material with stealing physical property. After all: "You wouldn't download a car would you?"
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- Yaa101 16y agoACTA is megalomanic masturbation of the political and business elite.
- kbob 16y agoI'm surprised you headlined it "even" Google. Google's policies are better aligned with hacker ethics than any other large tech company. (E.g., open source Android and Chrome, GSoC, efforts to free spectrum, Data Liberation Front)
- hugh3 16y agoMore to the point, Google doesn't actually create any content and does make a lot of money from reproducing (in occasionally iffy ways; see the millions of copyright-infringing clips on youtube) other people's content. If Disney and Universal start objecting to it you can use the word "even".
- chacha102 16y ago> The Motion Picture Association of America called ACTA an "important step forward" that deserves to be adopted. If the Motion Picture Association says its an "important step" forward, you know it really has got to be 2 "important steps" back.
- revaaron 16y ago...I don't get the use of "even" either. Google has been acting against ACTA for months.