How do most advanced drugs get created? By socialist governments? Or maybe by underground tech communities? Small businesses? Humanitarian groups? Nope, American and other free market Corporations.

So you want to take away the ability for a these companies to keep the rights to their products? Alright, we can do that, but then what incentive is there for the company to invest large portions of their budget into R&D for new products that they will have to give away? This lack of protection will stop the production of new medicines and will hurt the people you say the corporations are screwing... the poor who need drugs. If we had not had the corporations and copyright protections for their drugs in the past; we would not have had half the vaccines, cures and treatments that many here are complaining greedy companies are withholding. You are basically killing the hand that feeds you.. Wake up and look at the whole cycle. McDonalds doesn’t give every homeless person a Big Mac because it’s the humanitarian thing to do; it would kill their ability to serve anyone a Big Mac. If you want to give away great new products/services start a non-profit or humanitarian organization and do it! Stop bitching about people who choose to make a profit while you sit on the sideline telling people what to do with their money or IP.

I really don't know a ton about the specifics of ACTA but the overall idea of protecting a companies copyrights especially in the drug, technology and media arenas is necessary for the whole cycle of creation to continue. Let large markets of people get these products for free and you erode the incentives and slow the innovation/production of better goods.

Drug companies are just that.. companies, businesses, profit makers! Are you trying to tell them to not make money but invest money in research, ads, etc and just give their products away?

What many people are stuggling with here is not what a drug company should or should not do but that they want social welfare where the government pays for the research of the drugs then it can freely be given away.

I am sry but there is no way to look at this problem and blame the drug companies. They are just doing what any other business does, make money.

If you want to discuss the probem, talk about the expense of using capitolism in drug research/production. Would we get as many ground breaking medicines if we relied on a non profit agency to produce them or does having competition produce more.