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Originally Posted by Vexx
Anime will be the least of our concerns as global citizens if the ACTA is passed, this thing is so full of corporatist evil (assuming that even half of what the leaks about this highly secretive document contain are true). It simply does not serve the interests of the general public or even of the creative artists - its a stranglehold by the middlemen that criminalizes and provides no recourse.
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It's to restrict the only "free market" that we have. The internet has been the great equalizer as it has shown itself to be. How could single purveyors ever compete with big box retailers? The internet shows the true power of Laissez faire economics in it's most infant state. Of course we can see the downside to it, but it truly has equalized the monetary system and has helped change commerce as we know it, of course corporations are desperate to control this platform like any other platform. Especially when it has a possibility of complete destroying the status quo, also anything that gives power to the consumer is something that will be fought tooth and nail by the conglomerates.