As you can read in this article, even legislators are at odds with each other when it comes to ACTA.
The popular opinion among Internet users is that ACTA and similar provisions are being forced upon an unwilling populace, and it seems that even some politicians are beginning to object. ACTA, like SOPA and PIPA before it, aims to control and limit the flow of information on the premise of copyright and intellectual property right infringements.
With the globalization of the economy, information and services (which often deal with information) have become the bases of the global market today.
This may be a bit of a generalization, but when it comes down to it, wars are fought over resources and ideas. Often, these overlap, and conflicting ideas are pointed to as triggers or reasons for war, but I believe that resources are the reason wars are fought.
It seems that the international debate about information is becoming more and more uneasy. The US is overstepping its bounds already, as we discussed in class with the Bodog.com example. It wouldn't be surprising if other countries followed suit, applying their copyright rules and laws to websites owned by companies located in nations outside their jurisdictions. It's disaster waiting to happen.
I don't believe any full-fledged wars will be fought about the Internet, but there have already been many riots. Until the issue of how to deal with copyright infringement on the Internet is resolved, there will continue to be conflict. Who knows how bad it may get.
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