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Even Google now slamming ACTA (cnet.com)
35 points by CoryOndrejka on May 9, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



I'm surprised you headlined it "even" Google. Google's policies are better aligned with hacker ethics than any other large tech company. (E.g., open source Android and Chrome, GSoC, efforts to free spectrum, Data Liberation Front)


More to the point, Google doesn't actually create any content and does make a lot of money from reproducing (in occasionally iffy ways; see the millions of copyright-infringing clips on youtube) other people's content.

If Disney and Universal start objecting to it you can use the word "even".


> The Motion Picture Association of America called ACTA an "important step forward" that deserves to be adopted.

If the Motion Picture Association says its an "important step" forward, you know it really has got to be 2 "important steps" back.


...I don't get the use of "even" either. Google has been acting against ACTA for months.


ACTA is megalomanic masturbation of the political and business elite.




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