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Daphne Keller, senior counsel at Google, has publicly hit out at the new proposed global anti-piracy treaty, the ACTA.
The ACTA is "something that has grown in the shadows, Gollum-like," Keller said at a conference at Stanford University.
The ACTA has attracted a lot of controversy. What started as a border security, customs and anti-counterfeiting plan, has morphed into an ambitious global anti online piracy treaty, that aims to take the harshest copyright laws from countries like the US, and export them worldwide. And possibly due to the fear of a public backlash, the whole negotiation process was wrapped up in a veil of secrecy, and only recent pressure from the EU parliament saw a draft of the proposal released publicly.
The ACTA has been attacked by the EU, Internet groups, consumer groups, civil rights organisations, and computing giants like Google. Only the MPAA and similar groups holds the opposite view, that the ACTA is an "important step forward".
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The ACTA is "something that has grown in the shadows, Gollum-like," Keller said at a conference at Stanford University.
The ACTA has attracted a lot of controversy. What started as a border security, customs and anti-counterfeiting plan, has morphed into an ambitious global anti online piracy treaty, that aims to take the harshest copyright laws from countries like the US, and export them worldwide. And possibly due to the fear of a public backlash, the whole negotiation process was wrapped up in a veil of secrecy, and only recent pressure from the EU parliament saw a draft of the proposal released publicly.
The ACTA has been attacked by the EU, Internet groups, consumer groups, civil rights organisations, and computing giants like Google. Only the MPAA and similar groups holds the opposite view, that the ACTA is an "important step forward".
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