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"At least six of the signatories need to ratify ACTA if it is to come into force anywhere. Sadly for those who favour the agreement, the withdrawal of the EU an
by stuaxo 14y ago
"At least six of the signatories need to ratify ACTA if it is to come into force anywhere. Sadly for those who favour the agreement, the withdrawal of the EU and its 27 member states means there are only eight signatories left."
Sounds like there's still a fairly good chance of it coming to some countries - when it's there they can keep repushing it.
- mtgx 14y ago22 EU governments actually signed ACTA: http://www.geekosystem.com/acta-primer/ http://www.geekosystem.com/acta-primer/ So in theory, they could still adopt it all "independently", I think. I mean I don't think the EU Parliament "rejection" means that they aren't allowed to make their own laws like this if they want to, does it? It's just that they might not do it because of the whole backlash and because the EU Parliament rejected it, too, and it would look very bad if they tried it now. Although they might still try to include parts of it in different laws and try to do it as stealthily as possible, but it's very unlikely most of them would do that right now.