The European Parliament voted 663 to 13 against the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The parliamentarians defied the EU executive and threatened to take the issue to the European Court of Justice if the EU doesn't reject ACTA's provisions on disconnection for infringement and other enforcement provisions.
The ACTA treaty allows for criminal sanctions against non-commercial file-sharers, demands border-searches of laptop hard-drives and personal devices for pirated material, requires ISPs to spy on their users, and gives movie and record companies the right to take whole households off the Internet with unsubstantiated allegations of piracy.
Read EurActive.com Article: Parliament threatens court action on anti-piracy
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