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ACTA 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
• Reuters: ACTA signed in Tokyo: Article
• United States ACTA: Read
• European Union Trade Commission ACTA: Read
• Australian Gov’t ACTA: Read
• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic: Read
• ACTA Undermines Access to Medicines: Article

Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

26.01 EU is going to signed ACTA. We have our own SOPA.

What can we do?

Write to your politics in the European Parliament.

Talk about that.

Make websites.

Repost.

We have only one week.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??

SIGNAL BOOST!!

Ho fucking god no…. not another…

EVEN THOUGH I’M AMERICAN, I’M SIGNAL BOOSTIN’ THIS SHIT!!!

SIGNAL BOOST.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, YOU GUYS.

WTF

Reblogging even though I’m American. Ths shit must be stopped.

this is fucking awful and… oh, I though they already signed it on 17th december what made me sort of sadmad

needs more research on my part apparently

also, the secretive negotiations… make me absolutely sick

Hahaha.

Hasn’t this euro crisis been just splendid? With all this mayhem going on, it was so wonderfully simple to sneak the negotiations and the signing past the public’s eye over the last year. And now it’s down to the European Parliament! That super effective body in EU legislative. The parliament which did such a heroic job of standing up to America’s insane Stasi— sorry, SWIFT agreement two years ago, only to fall over and wave it through a short while later. That is just brilliant. We’re screwed.

If you’re in the EU and your country has a branch of the pirate party, support and vote for them, no matter how silly and incompetent they seem. That’s the only really helpful thing I can think of here, tbh. May lead to Weimarisation, but—- seriously.

Trivia I just found on German wikipedia: The EU commission agreed to ACTA during a non-public fishing and agriculture meeting.

THIS SORT OF SHIT IS WHY THERE IS RAGING HATRED AGAINST THE EU GROWING EVERYWHERE AND I CANNOT EVEN BLAME THEM

oh man i sort of forget that the EU can even do anything except regulate vegetable sizes and give Nick Griffin an aneurysm

whoops

Well, fuck.

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