ACTA is being signed right now in the EU

The headline is misleading. There are still several national parliaments that need to ratify this (there appears to be a majority against in the Netherlands at the moment), and it has to go through the EU parliament.<p>The EU parliament is notoriously allergic to these kind of secret backroom shenanigans and corporate manipulations and is eager to prove its democratic value. This is an excellent opportunity to flex the little bit of political muscle it has.

BBC News - Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16735219" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16735219</a>

If the article is accurate, then I hope that the EU Parliament will listen to the tech sector for a change. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll get a Blackout style campaign like SOPA had in the US.

If it does go through and border searches for pirated media become a reality, it would be terribly unfortunate if random people had encrypted files on their computer that they don't know the password to, entering the UK. In fact any unexplained binary file of about 3mb could be an encrypted mp3. Handover the password: or rot in contempt of court. EFF are right about encrypting your disk as a new years resolution. This could be a disaster if it gets fully ratified.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#Border_searches" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...</a><p>"exempts travellers from (border) checks if the infringing goods are not part of large scale traffic" I'd love to know how they expect border security guards to determine what's part of large scale traffic and what's not.<p>"jailed over computer password refusal": <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831</a>

<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514232" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514232</a> - ACTA will NOT pass as of now since it's in validation of Basic Human Rights Bill, so it looks with exception of Poland and Czech EU is safe, but i have high hopes that our (polish) parliament will not ratify the document.

I find it funny how they try to use iTunes and the music purchased from iTunes as an example for how this legislation would affect people, even though music purchased from iTunes has been DRM free for a few years.

They way ACTA was planned shuld not be possible for any democratic nation. This clearly shows that we have to evlolve you democratic systems.

Is ACTA potentially affecting desktop applications that are storing encrypted information to the cloud using private-public keypair? Private key would be available only locally.<p>From ACTA it's not clear for me if desktop app provider should start storing the keypairs in case a law enforcement asks for the access to the data.<p>Any ideas?

German European Parliament facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EP.Informationsbuero.fuer.Deutschland" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/EP.Informationsbuero.fuer.Deutschlan...</a>

Ugh... Where can I march against this?