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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on this issue, there should have been a more respectful approach towards the prerogatives of Parliament, towards the need to avoid a confused agreement which tends to regulate matters that are, in themselves, too diverse. I will be voting against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) not because I am convinced that the fundamental rights of the Union are truly being violated to the core, but because counterfeiting and online piracy cannot be fought with the same weapons, almost as if counterfeiting a handbag or a drug is similar to downloading a song or a film from the Internet. I am against ACTA because the Commission and the Council hitherto have not yet regulated in a credible way an issue that is so very much in the limelight in the digital age, such as the protection of intellectual property on the web. I am opposed because current legislation would already enable action to be taken against those countries that make a living out of counterfeiting. I conclude by reiterating my opposition to an agreement that touches on highly sensitive issues, but does so in an inefficient, confused way, lacking a legal framework that is the only thing which would allow me to do anything other than vote against, as I shall be doing tomorrow."@en1
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