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Default Re: Acta set to fail after Europe's trade committee votes against it

The IP industries are beside themselves as they see this passing without being enacted into law. They've pushed very hard to have it, broken all sorts of countries transparency laws, refused to have public participation, and then wonder why everyone got upset about it. Face it, what killed ACTA was when it was finally let out of the bag and people learned what it was really going to do to the internet. I suggest that all of that could have been avoided by being transparent to begin with. Of course the reason it was not was because all the vested players were planning this huge 'capture the internet' move.

You would think at this stage that maybe they would have learned that the claim that trade treaties be covered in secret would have sunk in that it doesn't work. Unfortunately if you thought that, you're wrong. Following in it's footsteps comes TPP with all the wishlist that was forgotten or they had hoped to put into ACTA and didn't make it.

This to is being held in high secrecy, despite the demands of Sen. Wyden who happens to be on the Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness. as senior senator. He can't get any real data from Ron Kirk, The United States Trade Representative, which is part of what he's supposed to oversee. Ron wants to claim TPP has never been more transparent.

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Originally Posted by Ron Kirk
USTR has conducted the most active outreach to all stakeholders relative to the TPP than in any [free trade agreement] previously”
The problem here is the transparency doesn't mean talking with vested interests, it means disclosure of what is being discussed, a transfer of information, given by Ron, not to vested interests, but to the overseeing committee for which Ron Kirk is responsible to in order to have the authority to speak for the US.

In all this, it means nothing. Mainly because the third largest economy in the world wasn't included in the negotiations and isn't likely to sign the agreement; namely China.
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