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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  • Neela E
    • Are you signing?
    • No
  • marcos
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • this is unconstitutional
  • Caleb
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    • No
  • Tyler B
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    • No
  • chris s
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  • Darin C
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  • Mike S
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  • chris h
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • Why? just why?
  • Sarah Elizabeth C
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
  • Camila Q
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    • No
  • jacqueline
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • THEY'RE GONNA TAKE AWAY MY POKEMON ROMS! ):O
  • Lauren K
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • This is a violation of privacy. The ACTA is unconstitutional and should not be passed. Every person has a right to do what they please in there own home. Invasion of someones own personal interent is like slapping them in the face.
  • Rodney M
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    • No
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    • Keep freedom free.
  • Michael M
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    • No
  • Tryce B
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  • Ezra Morgan B
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • I agree fully with the above petition.
  • bryce b
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    • No
  • Keenan P
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    • No
  • Jason
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • This is an infringment of our rights.
  • Brandon
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    • No
  • Jake H
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    • No
  • Nicholas
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    • No
  • Samuel A
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • This is not fair and should be stopped
  • Dylan
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • This is oppression
  • Ted M
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    • No
  • Clay
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  • Jimmy P
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  • Cody C
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  • Mitchell A
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • ACTA is un-constitutional.
  • Jordan
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    • No
  • Phil M
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • I'm all for anti-counterfeiting, but this is a bit too big brotherish for me. There is a way better way to do this than invade the privacy of the people
  • Andrew A
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    • No
  • Jason R
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • How can this be fair? Sites like YouTube and everything else will need to be shut down... which will make the internet useless. NOTHING will be free, unless it's provided by the government, and the government is so corrupt anymore that it will not give anything worth a crap to anyone for free.
  • Devan
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    • No
  • ACTA H
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    • Any comments?
    • ACTA IS A FAG
  • Ryan
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    • No
  • cg
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    • No
  • Ryan S
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • I smell bacon
  • Valerie V
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • We have a right to privacy. Period.
  • Tordah
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • The internet is supposed to be NEUTRAL. I can understand claims for copyright, but you have NO RIGHT to look in to my computer.
  • Patrick
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • Whoever heard of such a thing? If this is real, then all I can say is "WTF?"
  • Enkhnasan E
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    • No
  • James F
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  • Payton B
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  • Aaron A
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  • Ryan M
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    • This is just wrong STOP ACTA!
  • Ian B
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    • Any comments?
    • This is an outrage. Soon the gov't will let us have no privacy!
  • Tom B
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  • Kevin
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    • No
    • Any comments?
    • They have taken the flying freedom, well as long as I live, THEY WILL NOT TAKE THE INTERNET!!!!
  • Andrew H
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    • No