ACTA is going to kill the Internet.

[Akai Shizuku]

ACTA - that is, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - is an international treaty in the works that will destroy the Internet and basically turn the world into a totalitarian hellhole.

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<url=http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_%282007%29>Here is an article about it.

Spread the word, if you want to keep on using the Internet and don't want your ass carted to jail, because chances are if you've used the Internet, you've pirated something.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

If that '3 strikes' thing comes in, I'm screwed.

This is dreadful.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

If that '3 strikes' thing comes in, I'm screwed.

This is dreadful.

No matter how you look at this, we're boned.

 

[Internet Kraken]

While I would like pirates to receive their rightful punishments, this is not the way to do so. But I seriously doubt this will actually be implemented.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Holy shit, that's fucking scary!

That's why we need to spread the word. All of us.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

While I would like pirates to receive their rightful punishments, this is not the way to do so. But I seriously doubt this will actually be implemented.

Just remember, you don't even have to have pirated anything. Just accused. Thrice.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Oh come on. Really? Ugh, This is making me want to hibernate until people in power become less stupid.

 

[Internet Kraken]

While I would like pirates to receive their rightful punishments, this is not the way to do so. But I seriously doubt this will actually be implemented.

Just remember, you don't even have to have pirated anything. Just accused. Thrice.

Well I don't see why I would be accused of piracy since I've never tried to pirate anything.

 

[Ph33nix]

oh you won;t be able to illigallly download movies anymore to fricken bad. just do it the legal way for gods sake.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

While I would like pirates to receive their rightful punishments, this is not the way to do so. But I seriously doubt this will actually be implemented.

Just remember, you don't even have to have pirated anything. Just accused. Thrice.

Well I don't see why I would be accused of piracy since I've never tried to pirate anything.

Then you, sir, are in the very small minority.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

oh you won;t be able to illigallly download movies anymore to fricken bad. just do it the legal way for gods sake.

Did you watch the videos? This targets much more than piracy.

 

[Zetona]

I'm forgetting the Latin term, but the US Constitution guarantees, if I remember correctly, that you shall not be persecuted for an action that was outlawed after you committed it. (Of course, piracy is illegal already, but still...) Someone remind me of the Latin term please?

 

[RivFader86]

Holy shit, that's fucking scary!

That's why we need to spread the word. All of us.

Yip...because we are the only ones who can stop it...like alcoholics the prohibition by shouting about it on a corner.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I'm forgetting the Latin term, but the US Constitution guarantees, if I remember correctly, that you shall not be persecuted for an action that was outlawed after you committed it. Someone remind me of the Latin term please?

ACTA is worldwide. The US constitution is not.

By the way, that's a frickin' awesome avatar.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Holy shit, that's fucking scary!

That's why we need to spread the word. All of us.

Yip...because we are the only ones who can stop it...like alcoholics the prohibition by shouting about it on a corner.

Interestingly, the Prohibition is long over with...

 

[Zetona]

I'm forgetting the Latin term, but the US Constitution guarantees, if I remember correctly, that you shall not be persecuted for an action that was outlawed after you committed it. Someone remind me of the Latin term please?

ACTA is worldwide. The US constitution is not.

By the way, that's a frickin' awesome avatar.

Well, mixing domestic and international law may have some interesting results. Of course, trying to persecute internet crimes is like trying to persecute marijuana usage: it will cost ridiculous sums of money, not reduce illegal activity, and possibly flood jails. There's not much point to it.

Now I wonder where Theodore Roosevelt would stand on this issue...

 

[RatRace123]

While I'm with the general populace in agreeing that pirates should be taken care of, this is a very bad way to do it. I think we should fight the pirates with a band of "good" pirates (if there are such things)

 

[Zetsubou]

I'm forgetting the Latin term, but the US Constitution guarantees, if I remember correctly, that you shall not be persecuted for an action that was outlawed after you committed it. (Of course, piracy is illegal already, but still...) Someone remind me of the Latin term please?

Ex Post Facto (after the fact). And this is balls out awful, but it looks like it wasn't very succesful at the G8 summit, from what I got from that wikileak.