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What Is ACTA ?

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posted on Jan, 21 2012 @ 07:15 AM
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A video i'm here to share explains what "Acta" is all about.
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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement What is ACTA?



In October 2007, the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the proposed treaty’s title might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines) what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology”. In recent years major U.S. and EU copyright industry rightsholder groups have sought stronger powers to enforce their intellectual property rights across the world to preserve their business models. These efforts have been underway in a number of international fora including at the World Trade Organization the World Customs Organization at the G8 summit at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement and at the Intellectual Property Experts’ Group at the Asia Pacific Economic Coalition. Since the conclusion of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Issues of Intellectual Property in 1994 (TRIPS) most new intellectual property enforcement powers have been created outside of the traditional multilateral venues through bilateral and regional free trade agreements entered into by the United States and the European Community with their respective key trading partners. ACTA is the new frontline in the global IP enforcement agenda. To date, disturbingly little information has been released about the actual content of the agreement. However despite that it is clearly on a fast track, treaty proponents wanted it tabled at the G8 summit in July and completed by the end of 2008..Link





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posted on Jan, 21 2012 @ 02:33 PM
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I was just on my way to doing a thread about this, glad i remembered the search

This is getting me really worried, the implications are terrible and world-wild, wth is with all these bills to censor internet and control everything appearing for vote at the same time?

And this one seems even worse than SOPA, people have got to give this imediate attention!

Here's a video that may be easier to watch.



posted on Jan, 22 2012 @ 08:13 AM
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I cant believe this isn't getting more attention, I guess everyone thought that this issue was ended with the demise of SOPA and PIPA.

We need to spread the word and get ACTA into the public consciousness just like SOPA and PIPA had, we've already done it once so lets do it again and stop this.



posted on Jan, 25 2012 @ 05:49 AM
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Originally posted by MoneyRain
I cant believe this isn't getting more attention, I guess everyone thought that this issue was ended with the demise of SOPA and PIPA.

We need to spread the word and get ACTA into the public consciousness just like SOPA and PIPA had, we've already done it once so lets do it again and stop this.


In Poland this rose up to national issue. There is over 500 000 people on Facebook protesting against Polish government signing ACTA in Tokyo on 26 th January. Yesterday in Warsaw over thousand people protested outside of European Parliament Information Office. There are protests in almost all major cities here. Parliaments, Prime Ministers ant other web sites were DDoS'ed as a form of protest. All polish news outlets are giving reports about ACTA. This is even to be discussed today on special parliament meeting.

As usual there seems to be some kind of information embargo, as I can't see any news about it in foreign (US, EU) news, beside small notes about hackers attacking government sites.

Spread the word.
edit on 25-1-2012 by Nebro because: I'm sorry for mistakes as english is not my native language.




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