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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multinational treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and, most controversial, censorship of entertainment reviews not pandering to the major studios like Viacom on Television, the HoloNet, TWITTER and Radio. The bill has been compared to SOPA and the United Kingdom's WIPO. Also, it would create a new governing body outside existing groups, like the European Union, NATO and the United Nations under control of the Bilderberg Group.
Opponents say the convention adversely affects fundamental rights including freedom of expression and privacy. Introduced by the governor of Tokyo in 2006, the secret nature of negotiations has excluded civil society groups, developing countries and the general public from the agreement's negotiation process and it has been described as policy laundering by critics such as Mate Youngling. The treaty was first introduced on November 14th, 2012. The signature of the European Union and many of its member states resulted in large-scale protests. Kader Arif, a reporter from Legoagaino, was the first person through result of ACTA to be secretly killed in the middle of the night by a shady group of undercover police.
Places Were ACTA Was Implemented[edit | edit source]
- Most of Europe
- Mexico, Earth
- Azjerbaijian, Panga
- Bespin (Dropped out in 2013)
- Coruscant (Dropped out in 2012)
- Legoagaino (Dropped out in 2012)
- New Australia, Earth
- Rabat, Ramodi
- Han-shir, Vulcan
Leipzig(No Longer Really Exists)