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If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA
Forbes ^ | 1/23/12 | E.D. Kain, Contributor

Posted on 01/24/2012 9:08:22 AM PST by Nachum

When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to Washington D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online.

Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, these pieces of legislation are not the only laws which threaten an open internet.

Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acta; anticounterfeiting; pipa; sopa

1 posted on 01/24/2012 9:08:24 AM PST by Nachum
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...

2 posted on 01/24/2012 9:10:06 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...

3 posted on 01/24/2012 9:10:53 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Nachum

They won’t stop, will they?


4 posted on 01/24/2012 9:18:57 AM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: cartan

Self-ping for later.


5 posted on 01/24/2012 9:20:21 AM PST by cartan
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To: ShadowAce

Thanks for the ping

Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25449-forget-sopa-europe-is/


6 posted on 01/24/2012 9:32:01 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Nachum

Well... the article has nothing about what the actual concerns are with this thing. International enforcement of counterfeiting, whether products, brands or currencies, certainly is a good thing. What sort of threats are supposed to be in there?


7 posted on 01/24/2012 9:42:18 AM PST by Ramius (Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Nachum

The only bright side to ACTA is since it is a treaty with no controlling authority, I don’t really think cops are going to waste time enforcing it. It’s like trying to keep the ocean off the sand at the beach.


8 posted on 01/24/2012 9:55:39 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Ramius
What sort of threats are supposed to be in there?

They have to pass it in order for us to find out what's in it....

9 posted on 01/24/2012 9:59:42 AM PST by freebilly
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To: Ramius

Don’t worry, everyone go back to sleep.

Governments are threatening us with imprisonment and killing free speech, but it’s for our own good.

/sarc


10 posted on 01/25/2012 10:59:27 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Ann Coulter is a joke.)
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To: Ramius

The videos are part of the article. You might want to go back and watch them.


11 posted on 01/25/2012 11:01:13 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Ann Coulter is a joke.)
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