Guess What? It's Not Over!
Jan. 23rd, 2012 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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electricdruid at The fiasco continues
ACTA in a Nutshell –
What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.
Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”
What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.
Essential ACTA Resources -
- Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet
- Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
- Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
- Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
- Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
- Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video
Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.
Via TumblrYikes! Will this never end?
Of course not. *rolls eyes*
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Date: 2012-01-24 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:21 pm (UTC)Neither SOPA or PIPA had anything to do with it-- I'm having trouble finding exactly what they used again, and I can't remember the name of whatever it was that helped take it down, but it had been enacted decades ago.
Megauploader's founders got in a lot of trouble, and there's documentation of them saying things along the lines of "lol, we make our money off of theft XD".
On top of that, I believe they were paying certain uploaders who were uploading illegal content for something-- I guess download traffic to their website.
I still think that removing a company for user created content is a horrible, horrible way to deal with piracy, however.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:04 pm (UTC)I agree-taking out entire companies for what their users do is wrong.
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Date: 2012-01-25 01:12 am (UTC)I don't know how true these claims are, but I've been under the impression that they are. It seems that they were actually supporting the piracy on their website (it did give them a large amount of profit, after all, so I can understand that) rather than really trying to remove it.
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Date: 2012-01-25 07:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-25 01:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-25 10:16 pm (UTC)They never would have gotten taken down if it wasn't for their servers in Virginia. Which is rather amazing, really.
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Date: 2012-01-24 06:50 pm (UTC)I have to add that I found your journal through icon_tutorials, and your tutorial was very helpful!
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Date: 2012-01-24 07:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-24 10:25 pm (UTC)The TSA exsisting is one of them, those darned red-light cameras are an other.
This is protecting copyright holders, and that's the only way they're gaining support. Because this act is for our own protection.
And that's how it starts; that's how it has always started.
On top of that, I can only imagine that a few of the people going for this don't actually understand the way things work on the internet or something :\
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:05 pm (UTC)And that's how it starts; that's how it has always started.
AMEN!
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Date: 2012-01-24 03:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-24 06:03 pm (UTC)