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telegantmess:

nextian:

Guys, ACTA does not go into effect tomorrow, nor is a vote happening tomorrow. While the petition on AccessNow is, I’m sure, an extremely impressive benchmark (100,000, guys, we did it!) we don’t need 100,000 signatures or 150,000 or whatever number they’ll…

cuntofdoom:

sluttysharks:

epic4chan:

DEAR WORLD, Internet service providers will begin spying on you!

This is not just the USA, this is also Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and more.

ACTA is another attempt by Hollywood and others to end privacy and freedom to protect their profits.

These well done videos provide an overview:

• Video 1
• Video 2

We got to stop this!

Poland is planning protests.

Europe, contact your representatives.

UK, sign this petition.

USA, reblog this post. Make new posts. Join the EFF. Stay involved.

They won’t give up, and neither will we.

I’m going to keep spamming ACTA posts. It’s just so important. I can’t even…

yeah really, SOPA is such small potatoes compared to this

cultureofresistance:

ilovecharts:

All About ACTA

It’s not over yet. #SOPA and #PIPA are one thing. The international version is #ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement has been signed, while existing mostly in secret, by most of the world, with notable exceptions including the EU. 

The act is an attempt to create international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. 

You can look at what is assumed to be the current final form of the agreement, which has been leaked, here. The text has otherwise not been made public; in the US, a Freedom of Information Act request has been denied on the basis of classification for national security. Of course this information was not too classified for those who had a hand in creating the act, a group representing US-based multinational corporations which include International Intellectual Property Alliance (coalition of seven trade associations), The Gorlin Group (Washington “consultancy”), Time Warner Inc. (media company), Eli Lilly and Company (pharmaceutical company), Cisco Systems, Inc. (consumer electronics), The U.S.-China Business Council (nonprofit org), Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (beer), Merck & Co., Inc. (healthcare), National Foreign Trade Council, Inc. (business organization), Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP (representing the biotechnology industry), Entertainment Software Association (computer and video games), CropLife America (crop protection and pest control products), Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center (consulting service representing gauge-manufacturers Thomas G. Faria Corporation), Recording Industry Association of America (recording industry trade org), IBM Corporation (technology), Intellectual Property Owners Association (trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets), Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (movies), John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (publishers), General Motors Corporation (automobiles).

And that was just the Industry Trade Advisory Committee On Intellectual Property Rights that was involved. There are three other other committees, totaling 93 other members of the business elite who have access to the “classified” details of the act we as citizens are not allowed to see, for our own security. 

This video is a chart. 

Best ACTA post I’ve seen so far.

(via socialuprooting)

chocotaur:

Five facts:

1. ACTA isn’t the “European” SOPA. It’s nearly GLOBAL, and will apply to every country that signs the treaty.

2. ACTA is far more aggressive. ACTA will not simply affect websites and have them blocked out of the internet - its measures go as far as surveillance of anything you share through private channels.

3. ACTA doesn’t have a campaign against it that is as wide-spread and organized as the SOPA one. This is DANGEROUS, as there’s less time between now and the final signing of ACTA.

4. ACTA has effects on healthcare, trade, and even tourism.

5. ACTA has to be stopped.

Let’s start spreading the word and organizing a good, solid response to it.

More information:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ56UNL5zeo

(via occupyallstreets)

architizer:

Germany’s answer to SOPA: hackers in Berlin are in the midst of developing an amateur space program to put uncensored Internet satellites in space.

lovetilldead:

WHY IS THAT SO LOW?!

When ACTA passes next week ALL people from the EU will have monitoring internet!

So please signs the petition even if you’re not from the EU!

http://www.petitiononline.com/stopacta/petition.html

(Source: inucestbby, via feministrobot-deactivated201203)

thinkmexican:

Say NO to ACTA

ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, makes SOPA look like child’s play. It would establish an independent multi-national governing body focused solely on enforcing the intellectual property rights of major corporations. Learn more here.

(via flapjackstate)

occupyallstreets:

Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause “damage to the national security.”

I will be posting leaked classified information on ACTA.

P2P to be made totally illegal under ACTA (Torrent sites will be shut down/file sharing will be illegal online),

Governments will be able to monitor internet users activity,

Entire sites will be censored from the internet, including TPB and WikiLeaks.

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Signed: 1 October 2011

Location: Tokyo

Signatories: United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea

Parties: Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States

Depositary: Japan (proposed)

Languages: English, French and Spanish (proposed)

ACTA April 2010 Leaked:

ATCA October 2010

(via occupyallstreets)