07.11.2012 - 10:56 [ techdirt ]

EU Finally Realizes The Public Is Watching CETA: Softens Criminal Provisions For Copyright Infringement

Last month, through all of the secrecy shrouding the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA), it was revealed that the treaty called for the same criminal copyright sanctions that European citizens widely rejected when those same sanctions showed up in ACTA. This was just as people feared, and those who noticed were furious that the EU would try to quietly undo the public‘s ACTA victory so quickly and brazenly.