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[B]This came before SOPA[/B]
[QUOTE]Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
European countries, including Ireland, will later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting ACTA.
According to the [URL="https://www.eff.org/issues/acta"]Electronic Frontier Foundation[/URL] (EFF), ostensibly the agreement deals primarily with counterfeit physical goods, such as medicine.
However, it will in actual fact have broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools targeting "internet distribution and information technology."
Last week, hundreds of major websites in the US - including Wikipedia, WordPress, Boing Boing, Craigslist and Reddit - protested the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill and its sister Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Millions of web users took to social media to join the protests.
The protests, which included petitions and letters to politicians, succeeded in swaying the White House and members of the US Senate to [URL="http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25434-lamar-smith-decides-to-post/"]withdraw support[/URL] for the controversial bills.
One of the reasons ACTA is arousing suspicion and concern is so little is actually known about it.
According to the EFF, it contains several features that raise concerns for consumers' privacy and civil liberties, as well as legitimate commerce, innovation and the free flow of information.
ACTA, it argues, also limits developing countries' ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and levels of economic development.
[B]Why is ACTA so mysterious?[/B]
The EFF said: "ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialised countries outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms, such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation and the World Trade Organisation.
“Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed, no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations," the EFF warns.
Few countries that are about to ratify the agreement, including Ireland, have provided information to the public about the ACTA negotiations.
A document seen by the EFF, a sort of discussion paper, reveals that rightsholders are asking for new legal regimes to "encourage ISPs to co-operate with rights holders in the removal of infringing material." In Ireland, the Government is within days about to pass [URL="http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/25316-record-giants-sue-irish-gov/"]a statutory instrument[/URL] that may give rights holders, such as music labels and movie studios, the right to seek injunctions against ISPs concerning illegal downloading on their networks.
The EFF says that rights holder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by ISPs and three strikes-style graduated response practices.
The EFF warns that the kind of filtering methods ACTA may usher in may include deep packet inspection of citizens' internet communications, raising considerable concerns for civil liberties, privacy rights and internet innovation.[/QUOTE]
Source: [URL]http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25449-forget-sopa-europe-is/[/URL]
And a little video I found
[video=youtube;dmQN93NqqDM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQN93NqqDM&feature=player_embedded[/video]
And another link with more info: [url]http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post/16257654698/acta-in-a-nutshell-what-is-acta-acta-is-the[/url]
This is going to pass in Poland soon.
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Fuck this I'm making my own internet.
Oh SOPA what have you started.
I'm just happy that last time my country got out of this.
At first I thought that thing over STOP ACTA was a penis, then I thought of Poland.
ACTA was made way before SOPA.
We were freaking out over ACTA before SOPA/PIPA, but it didn't get nearly as much attention.
Wait, ACTA is back? I thought it disappeared a few months ago.
Land of the [U]freeeeeeee.... [/U]
Could everyone just stop with the stupid bills already? God damn.
Well, we'd better force that thing down a memory hole (euphemism for a chute leading to a furnace) before they invent the thought police.
[QUOTE=Kepler;34359764]Wait, ACTA is back? I thought it disappeared a few months ago.
Land of the [U]freeeeeeee.... [/U][/QUOTE]
Poland?
Actually, I hope there will be a similar outrage like with SOPA and PIPA (I still have to snicker at those names :v:). But this time on a much bigger scale.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;34359774]Poland?[/QUOTE]
I thought it was in America as well
If you read the first sentence you'd see its not.
So we finally see its final form...
[QUOTE=Kepler;34359764]Wait, ACTA is back? I thought it disappeared a few months ago.
Land of the [U]freeeeeeee.... [/U][/QUOTE]
Oh god your avatar, Its really interesting to watch but at the same time i'm so deathly afraid of spiders that i get chills down my back just thinking about it
On topic:Oh boy look at us we're the goverment we are so cool violating your human rights and all.
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;34359817]Oh god your avatar, Its really interesting to watch but at the same time i'm so deathly afraid of spiders that i get chills down my back just thinking about it[/QUOTE]
It's from this: [url]http://afternoonsnoozebutton.com/post/9333071229/gif-of-the-day-cocaine-spider[/url]
I doubt it'll pass here.
It's all over the media and everyone is talking about how it will destroy the internet
Thing is, they're barely letting out any info about it.
It's time to burn my computer and go to Antartica....
Oh those greedy corporations are so stupid, this will only make the economy go down even more.
I'm glad my country is unknown and too small to even represent a promise of profit for any of this stupid ass laws lol
:suicide:
[QUOTE=God Of Steam;34359883]It's time to burn my computer and go to Antartica....[/QUOTE]
Why not sell it and build a two story Igloo?
[QUOTE=Elfy;34359951]Why not sell it and build a two story Igloo?[/QUOTE]
Nobody would buy my pc even if i sell it by components because i have some copyrighted stuff on it.
But ACTA has already been signed into law in various places and everyone has known about it for the past 4 years.
Why has it taken so long for people to realise this is a horrible thing and needs to be killed?
So wait, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the other nations of the world were all "SOPA and PIPA are BAD!"
But they were also working on passing... ACTA? which is... worse? AND international?
STRONG sensationalist title OP, good job.
ACTA is way older than SOPA and pretty much dead already (except in Poland it seems)
It's not even a problem to the internet. It's going to fuck over the developing countries.
[editline]23rd January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=NotMeh;34360090]STRONG sensationalist title OP, good job.
ACTA is way older than SOPA and pretty much dead already (except in Poland it seems)[/QUOTE]
I don't see where it says that SOPA is older than ACTA.
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