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ACTA - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement in Europe.
ACTA would establish a new international legal framework that would create its "own governing body outside existing international institutions" such as - the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) or the United Nations.
An open letter signed by many organizations, including Consumers International, EDRi (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ASIC (French trade association for web 2.0 companies), and the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), states that "the current draft of ACTA would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy."
Originally posted by hellzdoms
reply to post by AzureSky
Yeah, sometimes i feel like we are rats tested in a lab.To see what we can do,like or dislike.We have no option to speak up and say something because we are no one. It is time to change this. But at the moment people are not taking it serious.
I bet Anon is just daring the united states to shut down the internet, because if they do. There will be millions of unhappy people. "Oh we're doing it to protect you" LOL! funniest thing i've ever heard.
ACTA - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement in Europe.
Originally posted by KingAtlas
reply to post by the2ofusr1
Special interest groups thik this stuff up.
Obviously, government are more interested in pleasing special interest groups than solving problems.
I know preaching to the choir, most of us are here because we have some knowledge of this and know the ways in which government actually use these kinds of laws.
Well I think that perhas in the future we will all have to move to the deepweb for information, that is not censored by governments.
Originally posted by Hellas
Time for a big a$$ Solar storm to wipe out every bit of electricity for years
To hell with all your laws then and your SOPA and PIPA and ACTA. The only thing left for them is then BEGA, because they'll be begging for a piece of breadedit on 22-1-2012 by Hellas because: (no reason given)