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In other words, De Gucht won’t accept the idea that the European electorate, through their representatives in the European Parliament, might possibly want to reject something they were not allowed to know about until late in the negotiating process, and to which they were unable to provide any meaningful input. In his view, ACTA must be passed, and ACTA will be passed — whatever anyone else thinks about it.
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<Buck> the MPAA site has an interesting anti piracy blitz going on for Christmas
<Buck> they say that they’re protecting users from buying pirated copies of films
<Buck> then they go on to say that you can recognize pirated films by the fact that they’re a lot cheaper, out before or while films are still in theatres, are region free and contain no DRM
<Buck> if I wouldn’t have pirated before.. the MPAA sure has convinced me to do it now