• Thought SOPA was bad? Meet it's big brother!
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[QUOTE=Lord_Biscuits;34360665]I read the part about the counterfeit medicine and thought to myself: "Why can't they just stop there? Why do they have to go above-and-beyond for every little thing when there's a big problem right there?" I mean counterfeit medicine and drugs is a very big and a very real problem, why can't they just concentrate on things like that instead?[/QUOTE] Because money. [QUOTE=garychencool;34361387]It's protecting against bootleg crap. Do you really want bootleg drugs from Africa???[/QUOTE] No, but I would also rather not certain entities exploit the bill for their sole benefit. [editline]23rd January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Spooter;34364650]So the claim is that this is a "kraken" that will utterly destroy the internet and must be stopped? Well, the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed the treaty in October 2011. ... *Looks around* ... Internet seems fine to me. And not in a "It hasn't happened to me." type fashion. I haven't seen gratuitous abuse of this agreement happening to anybody, anywhere. Yes, some people can't see certain Youtube videos and that's annoying and may very well come from ACTA, but it's hardly the tentacles of the monster wrapping around our throats. I'm not saying ACTA is flawless, but it hardly seems the internet destroying elder god legislation that it's being made out to be.[/QUOTE] They haven't yet, but it's still fairly new to the US. Give the MPAA and RIAA time, they'll likely start exploiting the fuck out of it when they feel the time is right.
[QUOTE=Flash;34366890]You wicker snappers[/QUOTE] Whipper-snappers.
Old people say it in the dialect of where I live as wicker snapper.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;34363771']Yeah, a million times easier for them to find the content.[/QUOTE] I doubt that they're going to go through every single file you send OR recieve, check it for every possible extension, and then catch you on it. [editline]24th January 2012[/editline] Wait, what? This has already been passed? It isn't going into effect yet, is it?
I remember setting up one of the first anti-ACTA threads on this website, I thought we killed this off a while ago.
If ACTA really did pass someone needs to pay
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;34368004]If ACTA really did pass someone needs to pay[/QUOTE] That's the whole point of ACTA. To make these dirty, filthy pirates pay millions of dollars in fines to corporations they "potentially" hurt.
It passed, but is it in effect yet?
[url]http://www.international.gc.ca/media_commerce/comm/news-communiques/2011/280.aspx?lang=eng&view=d[/url] Fuck Where does one go to protest about a bill that's already been passed.
let's permanently blackout the internet in protest
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;34367170] They haven't yet, but it's still fairly new to the US. Give the MPAA and RIAA time, they'll likely start exploiting the fuck out of it when they feel the time is right.[/QUOTE] It's been a few months, and the only developments were them asking (see: bitching) for more protection, and the Federal action against Megaupload under the DMCA. We may yet see them abuse it, but as of now I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is being blown out of proportion because everyone is still in frothing at the mouth red alert from the SOPA/PIPA battle.
I'm getting real sick of all these new bills. This is what you get when you let money govern the world.
Woah wait so has this been passed in the USA yet?
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;34369735]Woah wait so has this been passed in the USA yet?[/QUOTE] I'll post it again, but this time wrap it in h2 and release tags, so people will actually [b]see[/b] it. [QUOTE=Gmod4ever;34360639]Lots of uninformed people here. [release] [h2]ACTA HAS ALREADY BEEN PASSED IN THE UNITED STATES AND 7 OTHER COUNTRIES[/h2] [b]ACTA IS OLD.[/b] In fact, [b]ACTA WAS DRAFTED IN 2008.[/b] What more, [b]several countries have already signed into ACTA[/b]. In fact, [url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/uk-japan-trade-counterfeiting-idUKTRE79018620111001]The United States (among other countries) have already signed ACTA[/url]. They signed it [b]three months ago[/b]. The only reason ACTA is getting any recognition now is because Poland has decided to join it, being the first country to join sign the initial signing last October.[/release][/QUOTE]
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The second I saw this thread, boss battle music started playing in my head. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AfvgFfSSk[/media]
[QUOTE=Spooter;34369204]It's been a few months, and the only developments were them asking (see: bitching) for more protection, and the Federal action against Megaupload under the DMCA. We may yet see them abuse it, but as of now I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is being blown out of proportion because everyone is still in frothing at the mouth red alert from the SOPA/PIPA battle.[/QUOTE] Eventually they will find a way to twist ACTA to accomplish whatever they want, possibly even the tin-foil-hat-paranoia-inducing constant monitoring people mention when they bring up the possibilities of it.
[QUOTE=znk666;34360924]Anonymous is ddosing the shit out of their servers. :v:[/QUOTE] Actually, Anonymous is making real progress here. They changed a Mayor's mind against ACTA.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34359738]At first I thought that thing over STOP ACTA was a penis, then I thought of Poland.[/QUOTE] Here's your penny.
See, even cleverbot agrees. [QUOTE] Fuck you. Anyway, what do you think about ACTA? About what? About ACTA. That it makes you a robot.[/QUOTE]
ACTA sound pretty bad, but does anybody readed it carefully? read this [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/or8ag/ive_read_the_final_version_of_acta_heres_what_you/[/url] TL;DR [QUOTE]Summary ACTA itself is not too bad. It is an agreement to create new laws in each signatory state, and most of the rules are either fairly reasonable, or are wide enough in scope to be handled reasonably. Don't make the treaty itself an issue. It has already been signed by most of its initial target, and the others are going to jump on soon enough. It isn't nasty enough to warrant a fight, and it fundamentally weakens the online user's position to shrilly protest what it a relatively tame enabling treaty. The fight will come when legislatures implement it, and you should be ready to protest stupid, draconian or unfair implementations of the treaty. Edit: Because I suck at markdown I've tinkered with all three posts a bit. Apologies.[/QUOTE] its still bad and we should continue fight against it
I find it somewhat hilarious that they're trying to bust pirates with this, when piracy by definition isn't counterfeit :v:
Fuck this shit i'm moving to usa.
I don't want to live on this internet anymore.
Will that minecraft clone on xbl be removed then? That's kinda counterfeit :v:
[QUOTE=PowerBall v1;34372499]ACTA sound pretty bad, but does anybody readed it carefully? read this [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/or8ag/ive_read_the_final_version_of_acta_heres_what_you/[/url] TL;DR its still bad and we should continue fight against it[/QUOTE] Ditch the anti-piracy part and the ban on generic medicine, then it actually makes sense. But yeah, no bill should cover such a big scope of different situations and cases. It should be split up so the countries can easily agree on the sensible parts, and easily repeal the utter bullshit.
There will come a day when i will be telling my children how amazing the Internet was.
So that's why they are constantly delaying Serbia to enter the European Union! They know that i would hack to press the no button milions of times! Sneaky freedom eating ecofag(yes,me hates ecofags) bastards!
It doesn't matter if they haven't abused it yet. If it's in any way abusable, someone will abuse it. It doesn't matter how or when, it WILL happen. So rather than wait until it's too late to stop it, we need to act NOW and prevent it entirely.
Strap up, boys. We're going to war. [B][U]again[/u][/b]
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