In the lieu of SOPA/PIPA protest, the ACTA Agreement is adopted

[flaboy909]

Source: http://www.i-program...nstoppable.html

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...

 

[Hells Malice]

Well this'll go over well. SOPA/PIPA got quite a variety of people up in arms, and it was a US thing.
Now that it concerns the world...yeah this was a pretty retarded idea. People will be voicing their opinion, and when everyone around the world voices their opinion, it'll be pretty fucking loud.

 

[Gagarin]

Mayans were right! It's over.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

YOU MUST BE FUCKING KIDDING ME. FUCK EVERYTHING.

 

[chris888222]

So now it's an INTERNATIONAL situation? Fuck them. Screw whoever who initiated this.

Now there's one more plan once this fails and it's called the IAAM, or International Anti-Piracy Authoritarian Method. /joke

 

[1234turtles]

sopa and pipa died and now acta has come to avenge thier deaths.

 

[Ritsuki]

So now, they want to monitor our cellphones, computers, media players and censor internet (and I'm not even talking about flashcards)... They should maybe think about 'privacy' before 'piracy'...

 

[Thesolcity]

So the ACTA was already SIGNED?!?! How long till in effect with or without those other signatures?
If European Parliament has the final voice over this bill everyone shout, and FUCKING SHOUT LOUD. None of this slacktivism shit, either.

 

[BasedKiliK]

Are we all fucked? Seriously, are we all legitimately FUCKED?

 

[chris888222]

Whatever they do, they will always fail in what they wish to aim.

But yeah, ACTA? WTF.

 

[LightyKD]

Were fucked. Seriously we just cant win. Time to start downloading everything that matters (to me) and putting it in storage.

 

[Oveneise]

Wait... has this abomination passed yet?!

 

[emugirl1994]

If you go on a downloading spree, don't download a lot of files all at once. Talked to my friend and he told me cap it to like 6GBs every 2 days so that if your IP address gets tracked it's not for a massive suspicious file downloads.

 

[Searinox]

Do NOT let your guard down now that SOPA/PIPA are down! While we've been busy flanking these 2 disastrous legislations, ACTA continues to advance! Those who wish to STOP acta can sign a petition on the White House website to urge them to drop it! https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK

 

[Giga_Gaia]

When will they learn that pirates can't be defeated. Even if this pass, people will still continue to pirate like before without any consequences.

Even if they shut the internet down, piracy will continue.

I think voicing our opinion is irrevelant, what is needed here is to completely destroy the life of those people supporting it or just simply ... erase them.

 

[Saken]

In lieu*

I had to.

 

[324atk]

When will they learn that pirates can't be defeated. Even if this pass, people will still continue to pirate like before without any consequences.

Even if they shut the internet down, piracy will continue.

I think voicing our opinion is irrevelant, what is needed here is to completely destroy the life of those people supporting it or just simply ... erase them.

OR just stop handing them paychecks on silver platters.

 

[Foie]

C'mon, where's anonymous when we need them. They should be crapping all over these people's heads.

 

[Vigilante]

We better do it.

 

[Giga_Gaia]

We better do it.

Sorry, but those 3 bills wouldn't change a thing. People would still download illegal files like before. In other words, those bills would serve no purpose. Not only those bills would be unable to stop piracy, but even if they did, piracy would adapt and they'd be back to square one.

You can't defeat piracy, it's a battle they can't win no matter what.