Stop ACTA

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This petition is to stop ACTA(Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement). The ACTA is an international treaty that will create problems such as these.

(Via http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html)
" * * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)"

With this petition we hope to stop the unelected officials proposing this treaty, and keep the internet free.
We must also remember this is just the first in may steps to take our other freedoms away.

for more information
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XoFGApjhFE
http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/acta/

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  • Daniel S
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    • Would you like share a site related to the ACTA or stopping the ACTA?
    • Yes
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  • jesse b
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    • fuck acta
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    • Help STOP acta. Acta are basically cutting off the internet and the polititions have no clue what the are signing. They are basically signing a treaty without reading it. Please sign this petition and help stop acta. STOP acta
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  • Vaclav C
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    • Petition misses ACTA problem with data security education and security system testitng. Now, at my university, is illegal to study data security properly. With ACTA, it's illegal to try attack your own PC to understand mechanism of the attack and to understand means to defend from it. Even more, posession of penetration testing SW (i.e backtrack) and password recovery SW will be illegal. If someone will forget the password, it will be illegal to access his PC by other mean.
  • Leon H
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    • ACTA will effect the internet dramatically in a horrible way.
  • Torben M
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    • STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Val
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    • For human freedom !
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  • Goldberg
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    • Would you like share a site related to the ACTA or stopping the ACTA?
    • STOP the fucking ACTA
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    • WE DONT NEED NAZISM HORRORS AGAIN !
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    • Fuck 'em! And their law!
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    • Its a disgrace to democracy, might as well be communist.
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    • Stop ACTA!
  • Paul T
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    • The internet should be a place where people can search for information freely, without restrictions.
  • Vincent B
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    • I've downloaded a lot of things throughout my time on the internet and it's never affected anybody, so why get people sued
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