Tag: acta
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Go ACTA yourself!
That’s basically what the European Parliament said yesterday, with a crushing 478 votes against vs 39 for. What does this mean? On one hand, the Old Continent is definitely safe from this plague, but on the other hand, after such a brutal defeat, another iteration of the same idiocy with a different name and…
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ACTA – another offensive against the freedom on the Internet
Hey guess what!? Now European Wikipedia (after the US Wikipedia yesterday) will have to demonstrate another blackout pretty soon. The plan is simple, sometime in January 2012 most of European Union countries is probably going to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a very controversial international agreement aimed at extermination of piracy and counterfeiting. Information…
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Few words about ACTA
ACTA is a global anti-counterfeiting (and anti-piracy) agreement that might change the internet as we know it. It would give federal officials the right to inspect your files without any warrant. It would make unauthorized possession of copyrighted material a federal crime. And there’s nowhere in the developed world you’d be able to go to…