The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), often compared to US proposed bill SOPA, is an international trade pact that seeks to establish an international legal framework for countries to join voluntarily. It would effectively create an anti-piracy governing body.

The likes of Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States signed ACTA last year.

Protests took place in Poland last week over the country's Government singing the agreement.

Meanwhile, Kader Arif, the European Parliament's rapporteur for ...