Tag: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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Ding Dong The Wicked ACTA is Dead!
I spend far too long complaining about this injustice or that, so it’s nice for once have good news – European Parliament yesterday threw out the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The right decision – people will blather on about rights-holders and piracy, but a much bigger issue was how the US steamrollered this treaty (it…
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First SOPA/PIPA – then ACTA. Round 2!
OK fresh from the wins of the Great Internet Blackout, it’s time to remember that ACTA, The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (remember that?) has NOT gone away, it’s coming up for the final vote in the European Union, despite major problems with the lack of transparency, a massive vote against it in 2010, private and public…
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Stop SOPA and such stealth censorship dressed up as a protection racket
I will be supporting Stop SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) & PROTECT IP Act joining the internet blackout and anti-SOPA/PIPA online protests along with many other people from Boing Boing to WordPress (yay!) to Mozilla to Google to the Raging Grannies (yeah!) on the 18th AND the 23rd. And this video (although the guy is…