If the majority of Americans knew what was going on with ACTA, they would vehemently oppose it. Then again, if the majority of Americans knew what actually went on in our capitol, they would probably take up arms and march on Washington, DC. Sadly, our big content controlled media is will not ever report the truth. The will continue to paint this as an “issue of national security” and employ typical FUD tactics against people who speak out against them.

If you voted for Obama, take a good look. His administration is no different that Bush’s. In fact, it may even turn out to be worse in the end. In 2012, I urge to to support a third-party or independent candidate to end the current Democrat/Republican regime. They have ruled for long enough.

* EU Action Alert: Urge Your MEP to Take a Stand for the Internet
Written Declaration 12 asks EU negotiators to ensure that ACTA
respects European citizens’ fundamental rights to freedom of
expression and privacy – and opposes provisions that would encourage
Internet intermediaries to engage in surveillance or filtering of all
Internet users’ communications for potential copyright-infringing
material. If 369 members of the European Parliament sign this
declaration before July 8, it will become the official opinion of the
European Parliament and send a strong message to the EU ACTA
negotiators. Approximagely 253 MEPs have signed so far, but 116 MEP
signatures are still needed – particularly from MEPs in Germany,
the U.K., Italy and Poland.
https://www.eff.org/action/eu-action-alert-urge-your-mep-take-stand-internet-acta

You are the best hope for your country.

All though America bashing is completing legit in my view (due to all the wars and other bullying that they US is imposing on people around the world…..)

…. we should still remember that there are PLENTY of nice, smart, caring Americans who oppose the policies of “their” government.

Fuck the EU!

God save the queen!

The only thing we make in the US anymore are guns and movies. Biden will have you buying both at his prices, not yours.

If there’s any moral to this story, it’s that a new day is coming to the movie business, regardless of whether it’s prepared for it. “We’ve got to come up with a new model, because the old one just isn’t working anymore,” says Chubb. “You just can’t fight against a model where the movie is available for free. People clearly want to download movies online, so it’s time we figured out how to get some money out of it.”- producer Cotty Chubb

WELL DUUHHH!!!!….. OMFG! how many times do you have to get smacked across your face to figure that out…..I’m no brainiac but I saw this coming back when the ol’Napster took off !

Ya corporation are ruling USA and this shall not be tolerated.

We have to get ride of the bum out, Rep and democrats alike and put in place a totally new government in the 3 branches.

As soon as the new government is elected their first task shall be to purge all the government administration including the FBI the CIA and the defense department.

Their second task shall be to pass very strong laws, making illegal and punishable by very sever penalties any attempt by corporations and foreign entities to control the US government.

Their third task will be to restore the constitution in it’s pristine state reinstating the bill of right. This will consist in officially abolishing all the federal unconstitutional laws and banning any states laws that infringe the constitution such as the plea bargain practices, the restriction to the right to bear arms the encroachment of the right to peaceful assembly by repressing peaceful demonstrations or demanding a permit to demonstrate, restoring the unimpeded access to the court and justice to all by stopping the practice of raising attorney and court costs in front of the justifiable.

They will also have to prosecute previous war crimes committed by former administrations and restore the reputation of our country by doing so.

This to shall pass but it’s gonna suck for the pioneers…namely us. …oh well I always wanted to buck the system.

Biden’s lack of understanding is not his fault..it is our burden and his advisors to school these idiots on the complexity and amazing benefits the web provides to humanity as a whole. The article below is and example of how file sharing was hated by an IP holder then felt sheepishly stupid because of what the publicity and word of mouth did for him after it was shared on a massive level.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100616/0217159846.shtml

that is and always has been my opinion and i have posted saying so on this forum multiple times. if, however, they dont give a ‘flying f..k about copyright’, why is it that it is on the agenda so many times and is the basis of the ACTA proposals instigated by the US? couple that with ‘bought out Bidden’ and his one sided views, makes me think they definitely do give a ‘flyin f**k’, but for the internet control reasons, not the copyright reasons.

@17 Jul 03, 2010 at 18:59 by anon2
More like they were discussing about attacking Iran. Do you really think they give a flying f..k about copyright? They’re just using copyright and child pornography as an excuse to acquire full, but discrete, control over the internet so people can’t organize or share knowledge.

The prime minister(cameron) has said he wants to distance himself from the usa because all the treaties seem to favour their rich people and no one else.

Fuckin tossers!!!!!

I do hope they aren’t ignored though. Sharing is human nature, when there wasn’t internet we shared physical goods and, just like in the online case, not all ppl that shared/copied ended up buying it but the ones that liked it did. Same happens in the digital world but in a massive scale.

And what’s worse is that it is clear that MAFIAA is losing millions of sales with DRM or limiting releases to regions. Now I ask you, are the file sharers the real culprits for any loss here? You need to be really myopic (if the word exists) not to see the truth here.

What do you expect from infinite greed?

If you do not like what you see happening then abolish copyright law.

Or they just leave with a sore arsehole.

As for the article, the copywrong and patent trolling mess is out of hand. The little guy isn’t the one that should be getting packed off to the gulag for this shit, it’s the aforementioned robber barons, and they can take their paid-off trolls and powermad lawyers with them.

Now excuse me, I’m off to give the finger to a BP gas station as I cruise by on my recumbent bike. I’ll make sure to lube my chain with some spilled gulf oil.

They will call it disproportionate because they watch the films and listen to the music for free too. Of course they do, and no one got hurt doing it either. The film studios and distribution channels are still there.