The vote by Mexico's Senate is quite interesting. I will look into who voted, as well as what effect it would have. My guess is that it's a "safe" vote, meaning it will have minimal effect. But it really ought to: ACTA has hidden and even obvious problems, and its likely effect is not to promote culture and cultural discourse--dont' we want those things?--but its opposite.
And yet, now is the time, now more than ever, to have as much discourse and all that comes from it, like entrepreneurs wanting to make money out of ideas whose cleverness can only become manifest in discussion. And it's not not just about software. Never before, it seems to me, have we--people--been faced with such challenges and also possessed of such tools to deal with them; and yet given the fire of Prometheus, we wish to douse it, precisely because it is valuable.
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