Epic win for transparency on ACTA

Christian is an MEP in the European Parliament for the Pirate Party of Sweden. I sort of like politicians who use words like "epic win". :)

"This is a resolution by a virtually unanimous parliament, but it is not formally binding for the Commission. If they want to ignore us, they technically can."<p>Can someone please help me understand "who" this ACTA commission is and under what government(s) authority it is operating? Its all very mysterious, reminds me of the WTO. Throughout the 90s, you'd heard news about WTO meets with zero explanation as to who there were and under what authority they operated.

Yes! Someone standing up against opacity in this!<p>Now if we could only get the USA to do the same. Maybe they've gotten over their neutral stance on transparency, maybe not, but in a friggin' (ideally a) democracy opacity in something like this is unethical.

... for <i>very</i> small values of epic.

What does everyone think the timeframe will be for this to hit mainstream news? I feel like it must be soon.

So that's going to be our victory then? We'll be getting a new copyright law with more term extensions, three strikes, ISP enforcement, and god only knows what else they manage to cook up, but at least we get to read it before congress passes it? That sure makes it better.