here are a few links you should see,

first off, the news to inform you all

http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/policy-laundering/

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/11/draft-of-secret-copyright-treaty-should-give-you-chills.
html
and our forum is

http://z6.invisionfree.com/to_ACTA

and our chat room HQ is

t i n y c h a t .com / l i b e r t y 4 a l l


plz spread or videos make them viral for the cause!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcRIosJRY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XoFGApjhFE

a petition for the hell of it

http://www.petitiononline.com/stopatca/


and finally we have support on the social networking sites

http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=220546039744
https://twitter.com/fightacta

and an operation for anon was started

http://insurgen.info/wiki/Internet_Crusade
dont put this off anon, our internet depends on it. and before you assume this is spam or some tinfoil hat bullshit or maybe im overreacting a little. read the news i posted for you above and tell me if im overreacting...get on this anon!!!!


TLDR: web is under attack, join us and fight to save the web.....

bump for the internetz

heed to warning people! the web is under attack!!!!

Yeah lets get this going

Get on the chatroom people

>>2321305
Thank you for posting this!! This is VERY important! Our freedoms are constantly being chipped away at daily, lets make sure we stop this crap!!

I know this thread is not cosplay related, but frankly its infinitely more important. Please keep this thread alive for people to see and sign the petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?stopatca

it only takes 2 seconds and it only takes a small amount of effort

>>2321436
And if we can have threads about dead pets, we can have this one.

As much as I want to take your issue seriously, next time get a publicist that can actually type properly.

It always blows my mind when people try to make a long, serious point while never touching their shift key, and using "your".

>>2321502
STFU and stop ACTA

>>2321502
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, even if you're upset with grammar/spelling issues, you can at least bump an important thread.

ITT: morons who think that an online petition will influence the government

bump

>>2321557
YOU'RE a dumb ass. There's not just a petition in this topic. There are several suggestions on where you can put your two cents in to the people that can actually stop this, NOT just a online petition.

>>2321624
you HONESTLY think that this exists, whoever would be "enforcing" this would be overstepping their authority by leaps and bounds, not to mention it being next to impossible to enforce with banning the entire internet. on second thought... i know this guy in Nigeria who needs some help he's a prince and everything.

Thank you for posting this, I was trying to think of how to start an ACTA thread and which board to do it on.

ACTA does exist. You can find information about it on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement) or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/issues/acta) or American government websites (http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/ambassador-ron-kirk-announces-pl
an-move-forward-negot) There are lots of others but I figured you'd want the most trusted ones.

The way ACTA subverts due process of law is diabolically ingenious. Right now if you violate copyright law your ISP (internet service provider) can't be sued, you have to be sued directly. Under ACTA if you get three accusations of violating copyright law and your ISP cancels your Internet service they still can't be sued, this is called "safe harbor". If they DON'T cancel your Internet access then they can be sued, even if the accusations are illegal. If they decided to fight for one of their thousands of customers in court, they have to pay all their own legal fees until the trial is over. If they loose they still pay their own legal fees but now they have to pay the amount set by the judge as well as all the legal fees of the winning side. Even if the ISP knows they're going to win they'll still be out astronomical amounts of money until the trial, which could take years, is over. It's easier and cheaper just to cancel your Internet.

You'll notice that the government isn't involved in enforcing the law, the ISP is. The ISP isn't a legal system, it doesn't have a Constitution and ISPs have no requirement for due process of law. This is only one way ACTA takes your rights away, violates the founding principals of every democracy on Earth and gets away with it.

>>2321305
You didn't even get the NAME of the agreement right. "Anti Copyright?" How could that have even made sense to you as you typed it?

I had heard of this before, and it's really bad. I don't think the internet, in it's current incarnation, was thought out to become what they want to turn it into. While i'm all for security and legality, there's a line you have to draw between enforcing the law and trampling freedom.

So, if I'm to understand this correctly, if there are three complaints made against, say Universal Music Group, they will lose any internet connectivity they may enjoy?

If you think this is a real threat, you're an idiot. No country is going to turn legal ANYTHING over to a punch of crybaby record companies who demand they enforce unenforceable laws. Even if they DID, there's a LOT more of us than there are them and their power is centralized. This would turn against the groups that lobbied for it so hard their necks would snap.

This is just another "whaaa, vista = palladium and secured computing will be bill gates watching me pee"

>>2322371
Protip: Universal Music Group has a hell of a lot more money than you and I and can pay for legal fees to have their ISP unblock them.

>>2322371
too bad they're talking about it on US government websites. dipshit. i don't buy into government conspiracy theories. this is legit.

was this posted in /g/? It needs to be posted there.

>>2322448
Yes. They can pay legal fees. Every three complaints.

>>2322450
[Citation Needed]

>>2322575
read the thread
>>2322569
There are such things as arbitration and mediation, and considering they'll probably have a direct agent with their ISP they won't have to ever deal with it anyways.

Yes, I'm sure that a policy that would essentially kill YouTube, facebook, twitter, myspace, and any other user-generated site is going to get REAL far.

If this actually got far enough legally, you would see an outright war between the traditional media companies and the internet media companies. If anything, it would wipe the RIAA/MPAA off the face of the earth.

>>2322450
Bolgs, petitions, youtube videos, and /i/'s wiki are not "US government websites"

>>2322591
>http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/ambassador-ron-kirk-announces
-pl
an-move-forward-negot
>http://www.ustr.gov
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>.GOV

>>2322591
>Bolgs
I agree. Bolgs are not to be trusted