Community | July 04, 2012 | 16 comments

'ACTA defeat a huge victory for online freedom & democracy'

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-mAuyg7ubQ&feature=youtu.be

Vierotchka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-mAuyg7ubQ&feature=youtu.be

The European Parliament has rejected ACTA, a controversial trade agreement, which was widely criticized over its likely assault on internet freedoms. Supporters of the treaty suggested postponing the crucial voting at the Parliament plenary on Wednesday, but members of the parliament decided not to delay the decision any further. MEPs voted overwhelmingly against ACTA, with 478 votes against and only 39 in favor of it. There were 146 abstentions. Citizen advocacy group founder Jeremy Zimmerman believes copyright laws must be reformed, but not at the expense of the online users.
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  • remanns
  • remanns
  • artemis6
  • MSII
  • Tayllerand
    • +7
      Tayllerand  

    • There is so much money on the net that if they put all these restrictions people are going to walk away from it and the losers are going to be facebook,google,twiter, apple and billo gates .They want to put the cat in bag but is too late.

      The End

    • 11 months ago
  • remanns
  • rerushg
    • +2
      rerushg  
    • Tayllerand:

      Nice bravado but that is precisely the trap. The institutions you mention are where the money and the data collection are. This has nothing to do with that. There will be no droves walking away.
      ACTA allows rights-holders to unilaterally issue an infringement complaint about you to your ISP. There is no meaningful legal requirement or oversight. As long as the complaint comes from a bonafide source, you go down. ISP's want no responsibility in this: get a duly executed e-mail.... kill the service. You have no recourse with them. Your only redress is through the court and the burden of proof is on you. If you've got the money, the time, and can invent some way to prove innocence, have at it. If you do and you win after all the BS you'll face, you get your services back; that is all. The vast majority won't/can't do that and will therefore be deemed guilty. They become part of the statistics that show that the sharers are being reeled in. But we both know that sharing doesn't have squat to do with the industry's financials so it just gets accelerated.
      That's the easy part. Now consider that the Kochs are quietly building a database of their friends and not-friends, which they are. Just for fun let's say they buy a small company that owns copyrights. Now they are a player. If you are deemed a not-friend, you are at considerable risk of being silenced. See where this goes?
      Maybe you're really slick and can work out a deal to use the neighbor's WiFi. Maybe you'll change out your hardware so your component MAC addresses are clean. Or maybe you use Tor, gnuNet, Freenet, or VPN (already under assault). Or maybe other projects in the works will keep the Devil outside the door. I for one suggest that we focus on stopping ACTA and whatever disguised clone follows it.

    • 11 months ago
  • gump
  • ClassicalGas
  • cpad
  • rerushg
    • +7
      rerushg  

    • Great post, V. Almost missed it. Thought it was the item from a week or two ago. Very cool.
      Too bad Americans are generally clueless. Europeans have been in the streets for years.

      Read and heed:

      "After the signing of 22 European Member States Kader Arif, European rapporteur for ACTA, resigned from his position on 26 January 2012 saying 'I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade.' He was succeeded by David Martin.
      On 12 April 2012, David Martin made a strong recommendation against the treaty, saying the intended benefits are far outweighed by the risks, and "given the vagueness of certain aspects of the text and the uncertainty over its interpretation, the European Parliament cannot guarantee adequate protection for citizens' rights in the future under ACTA.'"

    • 11 months ago
  • gump
  • rerushg
    • 0
      rerushg  
    • gump:

      Thanks for taking the time, gump. Sorry for the drama but this is a real sore point with me. This thing has been bouncing around in total secrecy since the early 2000's. The public had no clue until some documents were leaked to Wikileaks in 2008, The rest of the world began to mobilize. Here in the US we're a collective blank stare.
      The Left has consistently been been ahead the Right in the use of the web. It's arguable that it's been our most important asset in trying to keep this country (and the world) from being more righty FUBAR than it is.
      IMO, Job1 for all people is to keep lines of communication and cultural influence open. ACTA is a clear threat.

    • 11 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • ampersand
  • Vierotchka
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