“Watermarked secret documents” definitely leaves a bad taste in the mouth of transparency advocates. And the worst part: ACTA hobbles YouTube, a platform for aspiring musicians and breaking foreign news alike. It kills the idea of the Internet being a collective of knowledge for sharing and information literacy.

And the funny thing is, transparency always garners more public support for any organization in the end. If anti-ACTA succeeds, they are going to be quite the backpeddlers.

iamthewitness.com
whatreallyhappened.com
judicial-inc.org
wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

– Thomas Jefferson

They only have power because we give it to them. I suggest voluntary takedown off all protected material, followed by the collective turning of our backs to their protected tripe called “entertainment”.

One thing the net has shown each and every one of us is that we can entertain ourselves. Screw them, let them keep their crappy work under protection, we can and should move on.

Yet another hint of fascism creep.

Just sayin…

Tells us:
The ACTA, “whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns”
means “That ISPs have to proactively police … This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger…”

Anyone remember Iran’s election riots + how people got their info out past govt control?

Every govt (esp. democracies) will have been watching + wondering “We might need to control internet info flow. How…?”

Well. Now we know how.

Being guilty by suspicion is not law or justice or copyright control — it’s draconian national security + they’re trying to enforce it worldwide under the guise of paying the poor artists.

This opens to door to some very interesting precedents….

The gun-maker becomes guilty of the murder the gun-buyer is accused (not found guilty) of….

The car maker gets to pay the speeding fine + take the day in court for DUI.

Maybe this new way of deciding law will have it’s benefits….

I mean Well! This is saying that if a woman hits her husbands over the head with a Russell Hobbs iron three times instead of ironing his shirts then Russell Hobbs, not the angry woman, is guilty of attempted murder.

There was this beer company that bought another beer brand and used the newly acquired one as a brand for the younger people and the established brand for the current base. Ten years later the acquired brand has become the leader because the old people died and the younger ones kept drinking that brand that was marketed as a brand for young and active people.

MAFIAA is cultivating a very dangerous seed. The ones that download the most, the ones that think copyright is bullshit are the young ones. Even the pro-copyright education is failing to achieve the desired results. In a few years MAFIAA will harvest their doom.

You fight against your consumers you lose them. That’s pretty simple.

Let’s remind the entertainment industry they aren’t the boss and they need the customer.

Let’s have worldwide boycott.
For just 2 weeks no-one anywhere watches a single movie; not on TV, not a movie house, not a rented DVD, not the internet – NADA – We might just help them realise…

The customer is why they exist and if you leave a $10 bill lying on a park bench for a week it’s not going to be there when you return.

Besides presumption of guilt and punishment without proof/trial is really just not nice….

Pirate Bay, can you arrange – get the message out – on the news etc?

That’s actually an interesting analogy, the post office. I guess it should have been the mailman who was responsible for that Anthrax scare.

And some food for thought: think about what would happen if everyone who currently downloads copyrighted material just… kept on downloading copyrighted material.

It’s a vast online community, and no national government (or at least no provincial government) would EVER want that many people to instantly be disconnected from the internet. Think about the education gap this would represent among competing global powers.

Not to mention the revenue ISPs would invariably lose – in fact, this may be an excuse to introduce anti-net-neutrality legislation to “save” the ISPs from their falling profits.

All around bad move, ACTA. I think you’re going to be fucked from the get-go on this one.

ISPs are not small companies, and are usually part of larger corporate conglomerates (which coincidentally also own movie/music studios, record labels, etc). It seems to me that the ‘notice and takedown’ policy is not in any way limited to people that actually own any copyrights, and the inane phrasing of that clause allows people to claim (wrongfully) that anyone else is infringing on a copyright; the implication here is that you are the copyright holder.

A massive, concentrated attack of ‘notice and takedown’ requests of completely random people targeting completely random companies could do wonders in the fight against this egregious display of pseudo-legislation.

otherwise i guess it will be anarchy… who can still trust their government if they throw this upon us? I certainly won’t.