Source: http://www.i-program...nstoppable.html
And here is a quote from Wikipedia stating how they snuck the passage of this agreement right under our noses:
Source: http://en.wikipedia....Trade_Agreement
Marcus Fenix: "GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!"
On topic: I wanted to post this bit of important new because we have a small window to protest but it must be made public knowledge VERY quickly. Also, this bill was OBVIOUSLY negotiated in secret. In fact, if the bill wasn't leaked then we would have little to no knowledge of this agreement at all.... Fuck our lives...
According to La Quadrature du Net, a French advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet:
ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small "club" of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated instead of being democratically debated, ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries.
La Quadrature says ACTA aims at imposing new criminal sanctions and online censorship in the name of copyright.
The US, Canada and many other countries have already signed the ACTA agreement and it was recently adopted by the European Union but it has yet to be debated by the European Parliament and so there is still a short window for protest against ACTA to prevent it being enacted.
And here is a quote from Wikipedia stating how they snuck the passage of this agreement right under our noses:
After a series of draft text leaks in 2008, 2009 and 2010, the negotiating parties published an official version of the then current draft on 20 April 2010.[17] In June 2010, a conference at the Washington College of Law with "over 90 academics, practitioners and public interest organizations from six continents"[18] concluded "that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators." A group of 75+ law professors signed a letter to President Obama demanding that ACTA be halted and changed.[19]
The final text was released on 15 November 2010,[20] with English, French, and Spanish published on April 15, 2011.[21] A signing ceremony was held on 1 October 2011 in Tokyo, with the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signing the treaty. The European Union, Mexico, and Switzerland attended but did not sign, professing support and saying they will do so in the future.[22][23] Article 39 of ACTA states countries can sign the treaty until 31 March 2013. European Parliament reportedly has the final decision over whether the treaty is dismissed or enacted.[24]
Poland announced on January 19 that it will sign the treaty on January 26, 2012.[25] According to Polskie Radio, Polish Wikipedia is considering a blackout to protest the signing, similar to the English Wikipedia blackout that had occurred to raise awareness about the Stop Online Piracy Act on January 18.[26] A number of Polish government websites, including that of the President and Polish Parliament, were shut down by denial of service attacks that started January 21, akin to protests against SOPA and PIPA that had happened two days previous.[27][28]
Source: http://en.wikipedia....Trade_Agreement
Marcus Fenix: "GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!"
On topic: I wanted to post this bit of important new because we have a small window to protest but it must be made public knowledge VERY quickly. Also, this bill was OBVIOUSLY negotiated in secret. In fact, if the bill wasn't leaked then we would have little to no knowledge of this agreement at all.... Fuck our lives...