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01-26-2012, 08:45 AM

Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement removes any need for SOPA or PIPA. It's WORSE

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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose

of establishing international standards onintellectual property rights enforcement.

Might sound okay... IF you understand bureaucratic lingo

but ACTA conceals a huge threat in plain view:

ACTA hides a WWW threat even more sinisterthan anything SOPA or PIPA ever dreamed up

In such times of crisis, why wouldn' t author Lee Harvey Oswald also resort to bullet points?

* countries join voluntarily* creates a governing body outside international institutions eg WTO, WIPO, and even the UN itself

* ACTA includes counterfeit goods, generic medicines & copyright infringement on the Internet

* civil society groups & developing countries excluded from discussion during ACTA's development, aclassic example of policy laundering

* the treaty will restrict fundamental civil and digital rights

* the WTO's 153 members have raised concerns the treaty could distort trade

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*The source is wikipedia so I do not believe there is a limit on the text. Correct me if I am wrong.

goes beyond the existing Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

* ACTA removes legal safeguards that protect ISPs from liability for subscribers' actions* ISPs left with no option but to comply with privacy invasions

* ACTA would require that existing ISPs could no longer host free software

* DRM-protected media would not be l egally playable with free software

* Canada, the European Union and Switzerland joined the preliminary talks from 2006.* Official negotiations in June 2008, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand , Korea and Singapore

joining talks.

* The negotiations were classified as secret in the US on the grounds of "damage to the national

security"

* Apart from the participating governments, an advisory committee of large US-based multinationalcorporations was consulted on the content of the draft treaty

* The treaty calls for the creation of a committee to make amendments,

for which public or judicial review are not required .* Industry representatives may have "consultatory input" to amendments

* Google, eBay, Intel, Dell, News Corporation, Sony Pictures , Time Warner, and Verizon all receivedcopies of the draft under a nondisclosure agreement

* too many early drafts wikileaked, so an official version of the draft released 20 April 2010

* In June 2010, a Law College conference concluded "that the terms of the publicly-released draft of

ACTA threaten numerous public interests,including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators "

* 75 law professors signed a letter to President Obama demanding that ACTA be halted

* the final text was released on 15 November 2010, English, French, and Spanish texts published on

April 15, 2011* United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco , New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed

the treaty, 1 October 2011 in Tokyo

* the European Union, Mexico, and Switzerland attended but did not sign

* Article 39 of ACTA states countries can sign the treaty until 31 March 2013.

* European Parliament has the final decision over whether the treaty is dismissed or enacted

* Poland announced on January 19 that it will sign the treaty on January 26, 2012* Polish Wikipedia plans a blackout to protest the signing, similar to the English Wikipedia

* Polish government websites were shut down by DOS attacks that started January 21

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01-26-2012, 08:49 AM

Here are more resources. I can not believe I just read about this today.

http:/ /www.stopacta.info/

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What is ACTA?

ACTA is an international trade agreement currently being negotiated by the European Union, the United

States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce

copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).

The main problem with this treaty is that all the negotiations are done secretly. Leaked documents showthat one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing

policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.

Help stop ACTA

Inform about ACTA Use the ACTA alert box on your website

If in the EU, help collect signatures of Members of the European Parliament for the Written Declaration

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Intellectual property must be protected, but it should not be placed above individuals' rights to privacyand data protection.

Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), issued a report on the Anti-CounterfeitingTrade Agreement (ACTA), claiming that it could prove unworkable under current European Union data

protection laws.

ACTA is legislation laundering on an international level of what would be very difficult to get through

most Parliaments

Stravros Lambrinidis, Member of European Parliament, S and D, Greece





http:/ /news.google.com/news/story?hl...ed=0CDoQqgIwAQ

SOPA Stopped for Now, Anti- Censorship Activists Turn to ACTA

http:/ /www.theatlanticwire.com/techn...rn-acta/47892/

Stravros Lambrinidis, Member of European Parliament, S and D, Greece

The European Parliament has had no representation in ACTA negotiations. Just accepting or rejecting an

agreement is not an exercise of democracy as under the Lisbon Treaty.

Zuzana Roithova, Member of European Parliament, EPP, Czech Republic

Now that the armchair activists are doing victory laps, celebrating the (temporary) death of anti-piracy

laws SOPA and PIPA in Congress, the years-long protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreementis getting nasty. Led by Poland, who currently holds the European Union Presidency, several European

nations became the latest to sign the secretive treaty in a ceremony that took place in Tokyo, Japan, on

Thursday. The United States signed it last year. This happened despite tens of thousands of civil rights

advocates -- many of them wearing Guy Fawkes masks or marching with their mouths taped -- storming

the streets in front of the European Parliament office in Warsaw and Anonymous-types turning theirdirect denial of service (DDoS) attacks towards Polish government websites. These are surely some of

the same free culture folks who brought down U.S. government sites to show the effects of the Stop

Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP (PIPA). But now that Europe has ratified ACTA a lot of the

same provisions in those bills could start happening on a global scale.

ACTA is hardly a new measure -- it' s been bouncing around since 2006, when Japan and the U.S . first

introduced the plurilateral agreement. It's also a very complex agreement that targets online copyright

pirates as well as counterfeiters. Regardless, the European protests coupled with the residual anti-SOPA

rage mean that the measure is gaining fresh exposure in the States. Even though Barack Obama signed

an executive agreement last year essentially approving ACTA measures in the US, a recently submittedWhite House petition demands that ACTA go before the Senate and outspoken PIPA proponent Senator

Ron Wyden has sent Obama a letter asking why he cut Congress out of the ACTA approval process.

According to the law, the Senate must approve international treaties.

Before we get ahead of ourselves too much, you're probably wondering: What the heck is ACTA anyways? And why is it so horrible?

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01-26-2012, 09:05 AM

Imagine the Internet did not exist…..

In effect they are saying ‘In order to protect corporate intellectual property everyone’s mail will beopened and read to ensure no intellectual property is being stolen.’

If corporation want to protect their property they need to take safeguards to prevent people stealing

and copying it. If it means they need to encrypt it and include keys for authorized users so be it.Apparently it is easier and cheaper for corporations to buy some Congresscritters to write a law to get

the Federal Government to protect private property then it is for the Corporations to protect their own

property.

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01-26-2012, 09:22 AM #4

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Senior Member Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of

web users, President Obama signed an international t reaty that would allow companies in China or anyother country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight

whatsoever.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the





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yesterday in protest against the treaty , which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities

in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.

Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs

remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove contentafter a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering

the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.

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01-26-2012, 12:38 PM

Weeeelp, I s'pose you really can, and really do.

The 1% hires the best minds money can buy right out of school, and uses them to devise ways to

promote their agenda of maintaining and furthering the global plutarchy and profiting from the

indentured servitude/other forms of control of the 99%.

They don't exactly advertise their nefarious plans to snuff out 1st Amendment rights, or plans for most

of the other forms of control/enforcing control of the 99% for the purposes preventing revolution and

insuring continued enormous profits.

It took the Battle of Seattle back in 1999 to bring the problem of the WTO to global attention. Few had

any idea that the WTO even existed before the Seattle protest.

WTO

The World Trade Organization ( WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalizeinternational trade.

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It oversees the implementation , administration and operation of the covered agreements.[28][ 29]

It provides a forum for negotiations and for settling disputes.[30][ 31]

Additionally, it is the WTO's duty to review and propagate the national trade policies, and to ensure the

coherence and transparency of trade policies through surveillance in global economic policy- making.

[29] [31] Another priority of the WTO is the assistance of developing, least-developed and low-income

countries in transition to adjust to WTO rules and disciplines through technical cooperation and training.

[32]

The WTO is also a center of economic research and analysis: regular assessments of the global trade

picture in its annual publications and research reports on specific topics are produced by the

organization.[33] Finally, the WTO cooperates closely with the two other components of the Bretton

Woods system, the IMF and the World bank.

http: / /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ World_Trade_Organization

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I can not believe I just read about this today.

And when we say "megapolitics" we don't refer to the number of those who move in them. There are afew, very few, who find themselves in this "megasphere". Megapolitics globalizes national politics, in

other words, it subjects it to a direction that has global interests (that for the most part are

contradictory to national interests) and whose logic is that of the market, which is to say, of economic

profit. With this economist (and criminal) criteria, wars , credits, selling and buying of merchandise,

diplomatic acknowledgements, commercial blocks, political supports, migration laws, coups, repressions,elections, international political unity, political ruptures and investments are decided upon. In short the

survival of entire nations.

The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the

political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the rolethat nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose

themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any

nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the

government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no

way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For themegapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dictates of the financial centers. It will

be this way until the dwarfs rebel . .

--Marcos, circa 1996-1997

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