ACTA rapporteur denounces ACTA mascarade

https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_rapporteur_denounces_ACTA_mascarade

by wwwhizz • 14 years ago

120 18 14 years ago

Was `rapporteur' his actual English language title, or is there a better translation? It seems to correspond to the sponsor or original author of a bill.

dangrossman• 14 years ago

"mascarade" is masquerade in English; this isn't a very good translation.

hastur• 14 years ago

Well, they did what they could. La Quadrature Du Net is a French site that also publishes in English. We should be glad that we could learn about this development.

thisisabore• 14 years ago

It has been corrected, if you see anything else wrong with the translation, you can edit it, it's a wiki…

sp3322• 14 years ago

Yes, but only because English shamelessly ripped off the term from French. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapporteur

FreakLegion2• 14 years ago

English partly developed out of French (specifically Anglo-Norman French) following the Norman invasion in 1066.

Besides, it was French that shamelessly ripped off Vulgar Latin (re + portare, "to carry back")!

jerf3• 14 years ago

A more proper adjective for the way in which English "rips off" other languages would be aggressively, rather than shamelessly.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll

Vivtek• 14 years ago

So... he washes his hands of the whole affair after his job is done. Wouldn't it have been more effective to have exerted some influence on this process or leave it to spare his delicate moral sensibilities before it was too late?

jerf3• 14 years ago

"ou du peu de protection qu'il offre à nos indications géographiques". -> "or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications."

Does anyone have a better translation of that phrase in context? I'm curious what it means. My best guess is a reference to the idea that different EU members should be allowed to have somewhat different rules, but that seems like a bit of a long shot. I'm thinking this is a technical political term that didn't come over well.

notaddicted• 14 years ago

I believe he is talking about trademark-like terms that designate the provenance of certain products, for example Cognac as opposed to brandy. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%C...

Loic• 14 years ago

Yes, this is it. In Europe, this is something very important. For example, you can only name Camembert a Camembert cheese coming from the area around the Camembert village. As customers, it allows a quick check: this is the cheap "like" version, this is the real one as they have a European label on the packaging too.

febeling• 14 years ago

One problematic fact for trying to fend off this legislation is probably that google and wikipedia will likely not "go dark" for non-US proposed legislation.

Zirro• 14 years ago

The Italian Wikipedia was blacked out for such a proposal earlier. The rest of the European Wikipedias could do the same.

gala8y• 14 years ago

So.... I dont understand. Is he about to publish something?

ACTA rapporteur denounces ACTA mascarade

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