Americans we helped you...Europe has their own SOPA..ACTA

Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:14 pm » by **Earthspirit7**

ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small "club" of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated instead of being democratically debated, ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries.

ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is thus a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. In the name of trademarks and patents, it would also hamper access to generic medicines in poor countries.

The European Parliament now has an ultimate opportunity to reject ACTA.

Please, when the time comes, we need your help...
Read comments lots of facts there:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/commen ... awareness/

E-Petition
http://www.stopp-acta.info/english/get+ ... on.html?19

Say NO to ACTA video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... itzRjwk-sQ

Last Parliament Standing: Europe Final Stronghold Of ACTA Critics
http://www.ip-watch.org/2011/12/21/last ... a-critics/

Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:26 pm » by **Earthspirit7**

Sen. Wyden Challenges ACTA Constitutionality Again
The conflict between Senator Wyden and the administration over the constitutionality of ACTA continued anew last week.

As previously reported, Senator Wyden wrote a letter to President Obama in October, 2011, challenging USTR’s claimed authority to bind the United States to ACTA without Congressional consent. The complaint, echoing several academic commentators (Flynn, Lessig & Goldsmith, Hathaway & Kapczynski) and a submission to USTR signed by 30 law professors, is that Congress must approve any binding international agreement on intellectual property minimum legislative standards because the regulation of intellectual property and of international trade are Article I section 8 powers of Congress. The President can only constitutionally use a sole executive agreement to bind the country on matters that within the sole executive province of the President, which making IP law is not. So Wyden demanded the Administration submit the agreement to Congress or explain why it does not have to.
http://infojustice.org/archives/7031
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WikiLeaks Proves U.S. Forced Spain to Adopt SOPA-Style Law

Last week, the Spanish government enacted a law containing provisions that allows copyright holders to have allegedly-infringing websites shut down within days of a complaint. The legislation, which sounds like a more extreme version of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) being debating in the U.S., had actually already been passed, but wasn't implemented until Spain's new, notably more conservative government took control.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wi ... pa-sty.php

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ANTI-ACTA - What can you do? video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bERAf5 ... re=related

Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:30 pm » by **Jet17**

there are no more borders.

the UN was a sure sign that anyone who was in the UN was going to be treated as a World democracy, where other countries mimic each others policies, to bring total control eventually over the bordering nations, and unite them under one banner....

that is why those that aren't included in the UN are always harassed and forced to adhere to their policies...

it's a joke..... A game of governmental ass grabbing, to please one another.

fuck all these acts, I wouldn't be surprised if this actually passed in the UK, it seems that the UK is in more help than the old US is over here. not to throw poo around but it seems that way from across the pond here.

we need to stick together though.

Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:33 pm » by **Earthspirit7**

Top Republican publishes full ACTA text for public look-see
March 7, 2012 by legitgov
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Top Republican publishes full ACTA text for public look-see --'Secret negotiations not the American way' 06 Mar 1012 Republican congressman Darrell Issa of California has published the full text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
http://keepthewebopen.com/acta
saying that the public has a right to know what their governments have been hiding from them. "ACTA represents as great a threat to an open Internet as SOPA and PIPA and was drafted with even less transparency and input from digital citizens," Issa said in a statement. Negotiations on ACTA started under President [sic] Bush the Younger, and have been carried on by the current administration. [Of course they have. Obusha hasn't deviated one iota from the previous regime, and in most situations (NDAA, killer drone attacks) has moved farther to the right than Bush. For some reason, he gets a 'pass.' --LRP]

http://www.legitgov.org/Top-Republican- ... c-look-see