beer Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsr16Yvk--4&As with SOPA and PIPA, ACTA takes a fairly bland idea – the right of companies to profit from their own intellectual property – and turns it into a governmental power grab and an excuse to weaken privacy on the Internet. The reason the activists are turning their attention to ACTA is that it provides the basis to criminalise almost any online activity. ACTA will give governments and large corporations the pretext to shut down any site, and imprison its owners, should there be political or corporate objections to that site’s content.Imagine a site runs a political story which is objectionable to someone in power. The site perhaps can’t be shut down because of that story, but ACTA will allow the authorities to find some other obscure breach that can be used. That’s also true of SOPA and PIPA.The demise of SOPA and PIPA, as temporary as it may be, means attention is now turning to ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). ACTA is a trade agreement that has already been signed by the United States and is even worse than SOPA/PIPA. Trade Agreements do not require the same type of scrutiny that bills and laws do so ACTA was able to squeak by unnoticed. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States are all signatories, but pressure is already being applied to other countries to join. The EU has not yet signed ACTA but has to do so before May 2013.The BRIC group of emerging nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – are not part of the ACTA movement and have no serious incentive to join. The Indian government may even be forming a movement to counter the act.(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastershake Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 well it was a good run while the internet lasted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 trade bills can not over ride the usa con. only treaties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csmdew Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 why are some of u ppl trying to tag everything to obama, he had said weeks before all the hoopla about sopa and the other bill that he would not sign them into law and now something else is tagged as his bill....I susposed bush was better (2 wars and deep debt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosticles Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 This is getting so out of hand, our only hope is anonymous and lulzsec and others. We must not let these laws pass. I think that the US goverment should be serverely limited in what they are allowed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 23, 2012 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2012 They will just buy few ministers here in India and India will sign the agreement.Obama is the leader of the US, it's him that oversees the final and ultimate things, I don't think any national or international agreement that passes goes without his approval, even if it does, it's his responsibly that nothing wrong goes ahead that is unjust and personally, he has failed hard to taking care of matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 That video makes it clear, thanks. This will never happen! (I hope) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Some reasons why Obama is doing this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 23, 2012 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2012 After SOPA in the US, ACTA Being Discussed By The EUAfter Wikipedia and several thousand other sites staged a blackout recently, everybody nows knows about SOPA and PIPA.But this is not the only piece of legislation being pushed by governments that many perceive as pro-censorship.What is ACTA?For those new to ACTA, or the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it is an agreement between multiple countries to establish new international standards for intellectual property rights and enforcement. The European Union is one of those parties. The scope of ACTA includes counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet.Why should I worry? The procedure for drafting the text of the agreement and the text of the agreement itself have received numerous complaints. The negotiations and draft texts of this agreement were kept secret until finalized. Civil rights groups and developing countries were excluded from the negotiations but the MPAA, RIAA and pharma lobby were constantly consulted on the text.Multiple groups and organizations that defend civil liberties have come out against ACTA saying that the treaty will restrict fundamental civil and digital rights, including the freedom of expression and communication privacy.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 software.Nate Anderson with Ars Technica pointed out that ACTA encourages service providers to collect and provide information about suspected infringers by giving them “safe harbor from certain legal threats”.Under ACTA, copyright infringement on a commercial scale will be criminalized, but the standard for commercial scale is set low.ACTA also allows criminal investigations and invasive searches to be performed against individuals for whom there is no probable cause: your laptop or iphone could be searched when you cross the border.Oxfam says that ACTA will impact access to affordable medicines in the EU by curbing generic medicine competition. Put simply, it will make it harder to compete with big pharma. As if this is what we need right now, during harsh economic times, higher prices on medicine.European Digital Rights (EDRi) says that, with ACTA, the interests of rightsholders are put ahead of free speech, privacy, and other fundamental rights. ACTA pushes Internet providers to carry out surveillance of their networks and disclose the personal information of alleged infringers to rightsholders.ACTA would therefore place the regulation of free speech in the hands of private companies.Please act TODAY:Your voice has been heard with SOPA and PIPA. Your voice can be heard with ACTA.ACTA is being discussed by several comittess in the EU parliament. Tomorrow, the Development Comitteee discusses ACTA.Please use the tools from the address below and call your MEP at the European Parliament. All the tools you need, via EDRi.:view: View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 I actually do not blame Obama entirely for any of this, because I believe there is a higher authority that influences his decisions. I believe that influence is the top 1% of America or another global entity for that matter.I posted this to inform that despite the fact Obama seems to be like the good guy in denying SOPA/PIPA, in reality he is working with the elites behind closed doors. Just like DK27 says, US foreign policy matters do not get passed unless it gets signed by the President.The only thing we can do right now is spread awareness, and take action when the time is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooohhh Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Well, Ambrocious, those videos are irrelevant! BTW, you should try to be critical when watching that kind of videos, they're not very objective :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmr1684 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 so tail is went now sword in the place of it wow great so everything happened for last ten yers in internet history going to destroy within some days, i am going to celebrate this. (b******) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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