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"I firmly believe that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) does not represent progress in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR), but, on the contrary, preserves the current dismal state of affairs. We need to realise that IPR protection must be viewed in future through a completely different lens, and that the protection of these rights must be balanced with the public interest in intellectual property being accessible to as many people as possible at a reasonable price. We cannot be satisfied only with protection and repression, without at the same time building a future system for distributing or sharing intellectual property that is acceptable, particularly financially, so that there is no brake on the development of society in all of the areas affected through an unreasonable and overly broad protection of IPR. In this context, the ACTA is a wholly deficient and one-sided product. The second reason for rejecting the ACTA is the possibility of it being misused for the development and clandestine preparation of environments for criminalising users, especially of the Internet. No form of protection of private rights should become a basis for interfering in a right that is far more important, such as the possibility of disseminating and obtaining information, including access to government, since we are already witnessing this form of repression in some EU states. Last but not least, we should not overlook the public opposition, since we must not ignore the opinion of EU citizens in approving legislation that may have long-term and entirely unforeseen effects."@en1

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