At the end of last month the French Parliament passed a new law enabling the digitalisation and commercial exploitation by a mandatory collective management society of out-of-commerce, 'unavailable' books, edited before 2001 but not sold anymore,  by a sort of a 'default setting'. The authors have 6 months to oppose the process if they whish to, after that the exploitation of their work will occur automatically under terms and conditions they would have not priory agreed with.
 According to reports published by the German parliamentary control committee, 37 Millions emails and internet connections had been subject to interception from the secret services in 2010 (5 times the 2009 figures), of which 213 cases were assessed as valuable for the purpose of fighting terrorism.
After the strong protests against ACTA all over Europe during the last two weeks, and with the expected referral of ACTA to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission to check its compliance with fundamental rights, some movement is being observed, with more or less intensity, as regards how certain national governments deal with ACTA now:
  The 2011-created German content alliance  (Deutshe Content Allianz) who gather public and private broadcasters, collecting societies and representatives of the music and film industry in Germany stated on Friday that the German government should sign ACTA "without delay" and should "consider a future-oriented reform of the c
In Germany there is since 2009 what we call a black-yellow coalition. Black is the colour of the Conservative party CDU and its Bavarian branch CSU, yellow is the colour of the liberal FDP party. The cohesion of this current coalition seems to be challenged on ACTA, as the liberal Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, declared in a video statement (in German) last Friday that Germany wouldn't sign the agreement until further notice, explaining that:
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