shade
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Post by shade on Mar 30, 2010 7:10:48 GMT -6
Hello fellow Anons,
I wanted to tell other people why does ACTA matters, can I have some information why should it matter to normal everyday Internet users and why should they oppose it? I will copy and paste it in various forum boards so some good information is appreciated.
Thanx.
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Post by shade on Mar 30, 2010 8:35:58 GMT -6
I have prepared a rough draft will appreciate any help improving it ----------------- This thread lists all reasons why YOU a normal internet user should care and take a step against it. Since Spring 2008, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries have been secretly negotiating a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods ( Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Text and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in PDF). Specifically, leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices. At a time when important debates are taking place on the need to adapt copyright to the digital age, this treaty would bypass democratic processes in order to enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime. It would profoundly alter the very nature of the Internet as we know it by putting an end to Net neutrality. See the most worrying provision of this hereThe countries mentioned in the document are: USA (US), Japan (J), Canada (Can), New Zealand (NZ), Australia (Aus), Mexico (Mex/MX), Morocco (Mor), the European Union (EU), Singapore (Sing), South Korea (Kor), Switzerland (CH). And "MS" is "EU member states". Even if your country is not listed above you should care because this will spread worldwide after it passes these countries and even if it does not it will indirectly affect you. Three core reasons for rejecting ACTA: These three points have been repeatedly documented in each and every piece of information that has been disclosed, since the beginning of the ACTA process: * ACTA is policy laundering in which an international negotiation is used to circumvent democratic debates at national or European level and adopt policy that the Parliaments will have no choice but to reject completely or adopt as a whole. Congress might not even be consulted in the case of the United States.( see in detail here) * The promoters and drafters of ACTA have created a mixed bag of titles, types of infringement and enforcement measures, in which life-endangering fake products and organized crime activities are considered together with non-for-profit activities that play a role in access to knowledge, innovation, culture and freedom of expression. ACTA would create a de facto presumption of infringement.( see in detail here) * In the negotiations, the EU is pushing the worse parts of the former directive proposal on criminal sanctions for IPR enforcement (IPRED 2, withdrawn because of uncertain legal basis), that is criminal sanctions for abetting or inciting to infringement.( see in detail here) Along with that one of the biggest problem right now is that your ISP's (Internet Service Providers) can report you for anything that "could" be copyright infringement and they will monitor you constantly. - ISPS will now watch what you download, and tattle on you if you download a music track/ any data / rapidshares / torrents etc. - ISPS will tattle on you, when you do anything which goes against "Governments policy". - ISPS will be able to document and store EVERYTHING you do online. nothing will ever be private again Just think how Government will use this to suppress your voice. This will allow more government control where it shouldn't be and is an infringement on human rights of freedom to expression and other freedoms. |
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Post by guszy on Mar 30, 2010 8:51:16 GMT -6
Shade, you are my God. This is perfect.
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Post by rammstein812 on Mar 30, 2010 9:30:57 GMT -6
Awesome work, i don't see how this could be improved.
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Post by jetpacktuxedo on Mar 30, 2010 12:59:39 GMT -6
Excellent work, shade. That is a great draft. I am free all day tomorrow, so if it is alright with you I think I'm going to try to turn this into an image that we can use as flyers, or maybe even on the chans when needed.
It looks like you managed to sum up everything we know right now pretty well, and I don't think we will be able to improve it very much if at all until Villainy finishes translating the law-speak into English (Which I think he is almost done with).
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shade
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Post by shade on Mar 30, 2010 13:05:10 GMT -6
Dont mind at all jetpack...Do you think adding this para could help as well?:
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All over the globe we have various stages of internet censorship and regulation with the mainstream media in overdrive to also label particular internet communities and themes as undesirable. The process has already begun (I actually think that the onset of the internet necessarily required its' initial growth for the purpose of gauging how it would effect the populace in order to better define where internet legislation would be directed.
It's a very real concern in that the implementation of a global social network necessarily is going to effect the capacity of older societal controls and media propagation. Allowing the people who pull the strings to decide how and when we can communicate is disingenious...as communication is the foundation of our society.
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Post by dotKuro on Mar 30, 2010 13:08:17 GMT -6
Apart from a few grammatical errors, which aren't important, adding that would indeed help. Thank you; this is great.
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Post by jetpacktuxedo on Mar 30, 2010 13:16:47 GMT -6
Great addition. I'll proofread it all tomorrow (kind of a grammar-nazi, so it's probably a good job for me  ), and try to throw it into an image tomorrow. Nothing too complicated and flashy, but probably just throw our button, line up the bullets together, and maybe throw a nice chart or something in there. |
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Post by shade on Mar 30, 2010 13:25:01 GMT -6
Soz bad at grammar and stuff used to internet slang and bad spellings now lol. Thank you for the help. Please do share a flyer so I can pass it along to everyone I know.
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Post by guszy on Mar 30, 2010 14:04:26 GMT -6
DotKuro, grammatical errors are certainly important. We want to look as professional as possible, and when people notice grammatical errors, their minds automatically believe the writer is uneducated, or doesn't know what they are talking about. Although this is worded professionally, fixing grammatical errors is quite important.
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Post by dotKuro on Mar 30, 2010 14:07:00 GMT -6
DotKuro, grammatical errors are certainly important. We want to look as professional as possible, and when people notice grammatical errors, their minds automatically believe the writer is uneducated, or doesn't know what they are talking about. Although this is worded professionally, fixing grammatical errors is quite important. In which case, I apologise. I was trying not to appear harsh. |
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Post by taffyk on Mar 30, 2010 17:52:25 GMT -6
hey im doing a persuasive speech for school into help with this situation could some one tell me a little more i want to now if this affects everything you download on the internet and if it affects uploading things to the internet
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Post by shade on Mar 31, 2010 8:16:05 GMT -6
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Post by anon013 on Sept 4, 2010 11:41:07 GMT -6
when does it get signed anyway?
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), and try to throw it into an image tomorrow. Nothing too complicated and flashy, but probably just throw our button, line up the bullets together, and maybe throw a nice chart or something in there.