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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
My point was that having a few Pirate Party members in the Parliment let them act as internal lobbyists to get the other members to look more in depth, which they may not have done otherwise...
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I'll concede that's possible
Equally they may have had no influence at all and members took on board the recommendations and concerns of the EU trade committee who recommended MEP's vote against it due to the vague wording of the treaty.
However it happened though, I'm happy with the outcome. Though, I expect this won't be the last we see of ACTA, maybe individual countries will press ahead with passing legislation at a national level instead.
We may need better solutions to tackle piracy but ACTA and SOPA were just poorly thought out and risked causing more harm than good.