Hello Joakim!
I am a Member of Parliament for MP and sitting in the Nutrition Committee, which prepares the matters on ACTA.
I run the MP's line that Sweden should not sign ACTA. Unfortunately, the government parties supported by the Social Democrats and thus majority to participate in ACTA.
It is good for all who are against can bring arguments against the bourgeois parties, which obviously is not as liberal as they claim to be and the Social Democrats.
Probably parliament to get a bill from the government on ACTA at the end of 2012.
Best regards Jonas
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Hello Joakim
Thanks for your email.
We fully share your concern about what ACTA could mean for freedom on the net, but also for developing countries' right to cheap and good medicines. The Left has acted against ACTA, both in Parliament and European Parliament. Now that Sweden and the EU has approved the ACTA at a meeting behind closed doors in Japan, we will increase the tempo of the fight against ACTA. ACTA must in fact be approved by both Parliament and the European Parliament.
Help us in the fight against ACTA. Write to to other politicians and press the government, especially Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask.
Within a few weeks, the Left to have a debate in parliament to Ask about ACTA.
Read what we think of:
Yours sincerely,
Jens Holm (V), Member of Parliament
Jens Holm, MP (V)
Tel: 0708-250 889
www.jensholm.se
twitter: Jens Holm
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Hello!
I believe in a free and open Internet.
I believe in zero tolerance for theft and other crimes.
Internet like any other technology can be used in good and bad purposes.
I intend to contribute to promoting the good and fight the bad.
Sincerely, Patrick Main Page
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Hello and thanks for your emails!
We in the Green group in the EP is critical to the ACTA and has expressed this on several occasions. Read as recent comments (16 and 26 January) from my Green colleagues Jan Philipp Albrecht and Will Keller:
http://www.greens-efa.eu/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta-5089.html
http://www.greens-efa.eu/digital-and-fundamental-rights-acta-5206.html
There is, as you point out, many reasons to be critical of ACTA. In my role as a member of the Development Committee of Parliament, I have particular reason to review the sections on access to cheap generic medicines in developing countries. Development Committee will vote on a statement shortly. Parliament is expected to vote on ACTA in plenary by June.
Sincerely,
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Hi Joakim,
Thank you care. The EU Parliament has the power to stop the contract but that will only happen if it becomes a public debate and the people you influence my colleagues. Do not forget to woo even the even the parliament must vote on the agreement because it also contains criminal sanctions (yes I know it is sick) that the EU can decide. I have two years of fighting both the secrecy and the substance of ACTA. I will not go into as much of why I am critical, but you may like to read a lot about it on my blog:
http://acta.mpbloggar.se/
There you will also receive regular updates and more.
Those who advocate ACTA will not answer you at all or respond to you with some myths, I treat the most common:
First ACTA makes no changes to EU legislation
While ACTA does not make any major changes, it is small changes that everyone goes in the wrong direction. For example, it changes the text on damages and the definition of what constitutes a commercial scale.
Second ACTA does not apply to individuals
In the first versions of the agreement so it was that private travelers (may / shall) be exempt, I said early on that they must sign shall be exempt if they are serious about not ordinary people be affected, but now it only "may be excluded".
The second piece is the banning of technical innovations to bypass the copy protection, etc., the text is worded so that ordinary people without criminal intent can be affected.
The third piece is the definition of commercial scale in which wording is more vague, because everything you do online can be reached by half the world, it can easily become something considered as a commercial scale.
Third It is necessary to protect us from counterfeit medicines and dangerous counterfeit products
Yes exactly, had ACTA acted solely on the Mafia factories for large-scale fraud / smuggling of goods had ACTA already been in port without major problems, no one builds an illegal factory for the manufacture of detergents, or drugs without knowing what it is doing with or without intent. But by expanding the ACTA to cover the internet and do not explicitly exclude individuals it affects us all. Also increases the risk of ACTA legitimate generics (without medicine / who lost their patent protection) at the transit through the EU seized and people in the developing world die when they do not get it.
4th No one will be disconnected from the network
The ACTA says that private actors should work together to stop infringement of intellectual property rights, it is the worst form of censorship and intimidation against net neutrality because we citizens do not even have a chance to appeal and defend us.
Follow my battle against ACTA on my blog and keep your.
Yours sincerely,
Carl Schlyter