ACTA Worse than SOPA/PIPA! Help Save the Internet!

PokéTrainer J

http://www.stopacta.info/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...t-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/

ACTA vs. SOPA: Five Reasons ACTA is Scarier Threat to Internet Freedom:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/286...ons-scarier-threat-internet-freedom.htm?cid=2

What's Wrong with ACTA?

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.1/whats-wrong-with-ACTA

ACTA is like SOPA/PIPA but much worse, the Treaty itself is set to
be signed into global law tomorrow by the EU and Ireland:

http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-and-eu-to-sign-controversial-acta-treaty-tomorrow-336764-Jan2012/

Here's a petition to try to stop it which goes straight to the White House!

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...d-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK

Here's the Global Petition:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?abUepcb
 
Yeah I think I went overboard with this thread spamming numerous websites without much sypnosis so I'll try to explain this as best I can. First of all, ACTA is not going to censor the Internet, it's just going to monitor your usage on it; where you go and what you do there. As long as you don't do anything questionable (like download copywritten material), you'll be fine. The ISP's will be the one's doing the monitoring not the U.S. Government or any other Government.

So until the U.S. Government creates laws that will be based off of ACTA like SOPA/PIPA or the OPEN Act, ACTA has no effect at all. As for YouTube and Google they don't enable piracy and they don't sell anything so they'll be safe. The situation with Megaupload/Megavideo that was mostly Anonymous's fault for provoking the U.S. Government into shutting down those websites by hacking into Government websites by the Pentagon and the White House.

ACTA is a treaty, not a law. It's powerless until a law is put into motion that supports it.
 
You know that is the US signs a treaty I'm PRETTY SURE they're going to make laws enforcing it.

Otherwise, they wouldn't sign the damn treaty.
 
Ok, so since I haven't looked up much of ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA (although I have a good idea what they're about), I do have one question.

These laws/treaties aren't gonna be brought to Canada, right? This is just for the USA right?
 
Fine fine, sorry about my post.

I saw the video that Anon made, and I sort of saw their point with the whole counterfeit thing. Though I never usually believe the whole anon hype.

Do they think saving a picture is "illegal"?
 
SOPA and PIPA are just U.S. only, but I believe ACTA is an international treaty. Most governments won't even publicize the text of the treaty because it is "harmful to security" or some other terrible reason.

I believe the U.S. and Canada both signed it in October of 2011.
 
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"Members of Polish Parliament wear Guy Fawkes masks to show their opposition to ACTA."


Well, at least Poland doesn't like it.
 
This thing probably bothered me the most about ACTA:

According to an analysis by the Free Software Foundation, ACTA would require that existing ISPs no longer host free software that can access copyrighted media, and DRM-protected media would not be legally playable with free or open source software.
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http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/
 
Master Win said:
Ok, so since I haven't looked up much of ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA (although I have a good idea what they're about), I do have one question.

These laws/treaties aren't gonna be brought to Canada, right? This is just for the USA right?
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We already signed ACTA. Bill C-11 hasn't been passed though which is the law part of this. You want to be protesting Bill C-11. It's really getting tiresome fighting bill after bill but whatcha gonna do x.x

Michael Geist is a name you should look up for anything copyright-related in Canada
 
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