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electricdruid at The fiasco continuesACTA in a Nutshell –
What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.
Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”
What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.
Essential ACTA Resources -
- Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet
- Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
- Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
- Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
- Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
- Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video
Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.
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digitalwave at Seems I Am Not The Only One...Originally posted by morgandawn at Seems I Am Not The Only One....
Megaupload was just the beginning. If we don't make our voices heard now the internet will soon change and it won't be for the better.
ETA: Here is the direct link to the black march site: Black March
Post gacked fromjuno_magic. I agree - this is exactly the way to go. But we should also let the Music Industry and content industry know why we do it. And by the way: down here in Europe, the European Union is in the process to quietly pass ACTA - the Anti-Counterfying-Trade-Agreement behind closed doors and without much public information or discussion. This "Trade Agreement" allows to do as much damage to the Internet and to us as customers as well as producers of remixed content as SOPA and PIPA would. It's time we started a protest storm against it down here, too!
And here is a call to arms about ACTA by reddit and 4chan. This is good!
4chan Issues Immediate Call to Arms Against ACTA in the EU.
Spread the word!
morgandawn at Seems I Am Not The Only One.......who feels the need to take a break from an increasingly dysfunctional relationship.
Megaupload was just the beginning. If we don't make our voices heard now the internet will soon change and it won't be for the better.
ETA: Here is the direct link to the black march site: Black March
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juno_magic. I agree - this is exactly the way to go. But we should also let the Music Industry and content industry know why we do it. And by the way: down here in Europe, the European Union is in the process to quietly pass ACTA - the Anti-Counterfying-Trade-Agreement behind closed doors and without much public information or discussion. This "Trade Agreement" allows to do as much damage to the Internet and to us as customers as well as producers of remixed content as SOPA and PIPA would. It's time we started a protest storm against it down here, too!STOP ACTA!
And here is a call to arms about ACTA by reddit and 4chan. This is good!
4chan Issues Immediate Call to Arms Against ACTA in the EU.
Spread the word!
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This act is supposed to empowers copyright holders to seek punitive action when their material is reproduced online. However, it will do so (if it does so) with tremendous collateral damage to tzhe Internet as we know it. For example, the rules of Fair Use would allow you to do parodies - and yet, copyright holders have used Copyright claims to try and suppress political remixes of trading spots, have tried to suppress the citation of parts of texts in critical blog posts, or to suppress the redistribution of unwelcome and "leaked" information in the past. In the future, they could use these claims to simply force Internet Service Providers to block access to the websites hosting these unwelcome remixes, articles and blog posts, and force Paypal and other services to transfer your donation money to them. In other words, the possibilities of censure this law includes are alarming.
Aside from that, the danger this law would provide to fannish culture? You guess it. Just imagine live journal blocked, for example, because somebody posted or linked a movie remix. Your beloved icons? movie pictures? fannish articles? All reasons to block access to your sites, if some copyright holder honcho should decide so. And I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Please, those of you on my f-list who live in the USA - do everything in your power, e-mail or write your senators or representatives in congress, call them, go demonstrating, sign petitions, do whatever you can to STOP THIS. This is serious, and the danger to the Intern et as we know it is immediate. and no, Obama refusing to sign that bill will not be enough - not if instead the bill gets through modified and just a little less bad, but still FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond Repair) enough to wreak havoc with the Internet as it is now.
As I said before, this is serious, and the danger is immediate.
Read more here on AlterNet:
Kill the Bill: The “Stop Online Piracy Act” and Why It Matters by Max Coleman
And at the site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has also created an activist platform where you can contact your representative or Senator: Take Action Now.
Or you can go to the Strike Against Censorship Site to sign that petition.
Those of you who are not citizens of the US can still sign a petition to the state department. I just did!
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Quote from the Avaaz website:
Save The Internet!
Right now, the US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world's Internet -- creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz!
Under the new law, the US could force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently police their users' activities. And, because so much of the Internet's hosts and hardware are located in the US, their blacklist would clamp down on the free web for all of us.
The vote could happen any day now, but we can help stop this -- champions in Congress want to preserve free speech and tell us that an international outcry would strengthen their hand. Let’s urgently raise our voices from every corner of the world and build an unprecedented global petition calling on US decision makers to reject the bill and stop Internet censorship. Sign now and then forward as widely as possible -- our message will be delivered directly to key members of the US Congress ahead of the crucial vote.
sing the petition here
Edit: Here is some more information about the bill this is trying to stop:
SOPA
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A very happy belated birthday to randy_o!
who had his birthday at the 11th, when I could not be online due to lack of Internet.
I hope you had a wonderful day! All the best for the next year of life and many happy returns!
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So, my stuff will be found henceforth at LJ and a few selected other sites, but not there, anymore. XCCCC
I shall be starting on transferring my stuff to AO3, this weekend - if we have to face the danger of C&D's from the copyright owners, then by all means do it for a site that is worth fighting for, not for a site somebody tries to gain a profit from fans working for what they want to be a community of sharing their works for free. Fanfiction is about stories written NOT FOR PROFIT. The moment you change that and try to use these fanworks for commerce? You kill the spirit of the thing. And I love this very thing too much to allow myself to take part in something that is killing this spirit.
EDIT to add: Done. I have now requested to have my account deleted at LOTRFF.com, too. My stories will be reposted (among other places) at the new archive, Faerie: http://efiction.esteliel.de/index.p
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In the end, this is the closest I could come up with. Oh, well, maybe I should have better well left alone...
Anyway. Sorry for the disturbance, and please bear with me!
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