<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:50 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jothal@o2.pl">jothal@o2.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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2012/2/9 Eduard Tric <<a href="mailto:eduard.tric@isoc.ro">eduard.tric@isoc.ro</a>>:<br>
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> Our last analysis of Acta is that two treaties are needed : one addressing international counterfeintg issues , another one addressing international piracy issues. Trying to solve piracy problems with counterfeiting treaty is wired.<br>


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</div>It is current situation which ACTA is trying to change. In TRIPS you have counterfeiting of trademarks and piracy of copyright which are clear separate issues.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the other other hand, in the USA the RIAA, smarting from their recent defeat, are doing their very best to conflate the two:</div><div><br></div><div>

See <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/technology/in-piracy-debate-deciding-if-the-sky-is-falling.html" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(28,81,168);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/technology/in-piracy-debate-deciding-if-the-sky-is-falling.html</a></div>

<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Media companies have no plans to immediately revisit the antipiracy<br></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">legislation. Instead, several entertainment executives said they<br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">planned to reorganize and talk to labor unions, pharmaceutical<br></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">companies and other backers of the legislation about a unified message<br>

</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">so the antipiracy and anticounterfeiting movement was not just<br></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">associated with Hollywood.</span></blockquote>

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