Anonymous goes after Europes SOPA

[Saucycarpdog]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57367837-245/anonymous-takes-aim-over-europes-sopa/?tag=mncol

Europe is due to vote on ACTA in june while the US has already signed it. So if Europe doesn't sign it, you europeans should swim across the atlantic and save us.

Just a thought.

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Poland I think is against it, that's all i really know about the situation. I'm sure a few other countries are but I haven't read into it much. I doubt this'll be passed.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Poland I think is against it, that's all i really know about the situation. I'm sure a few other countries are but I haven't read into it much. I doubt this'll be passed.

Poland and Sweden apparently are both very against it.

 

[Something Amyss]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57367837-245/anonymous-takes-aim-over-europes-sopa/?tag=mncol

Europe is due to vote on ACTA in june while the US has already signed it. So if Europe doesn't sign it, you europeans should swim across the atlantic and save us.

Just a thought.

I like how the treaty that America is already in is "Europe's SOPA."

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

ACTA aint "europes SOPA" its a whole metric fucktonne worse. And I am ashamed of my country for participating in that bullshit. Wish we could publically execute the bastard who disgraced my country by signing it.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57367837-245/anonymous-takes-aim-over-europes-sopa/?tag=mncol

Europe is due to vote on ACTA in june while the US has already signed it. So if Europe doesn't sign it, you europeans should swim across the atlantic and save us.

Just a thought.

I like how the treaty that America is already in is "Europe's SOPA."

It is a catchy title to get people in on the thread and even though ACTA does much more than affect the internet it is relevant and recent thing to equate it to.

OT: I have no idea what Ireland's stance is on it but we had a pretty piss poor protest on the 26[sup]th[/sup] but at least they tried. There is going to be another one next Saturday so we'll see how that goes.

 

[Hazy992]

Poland I think is against it, that's all i really know about the situation. I'm sure a few other countries are but I haven't read into it much. I doubt this'll be passed.

Poland and Sweden apparently are both very against it.

Germany is as well I believe, which is encouraging seeing as how they've become the de facto leaders of the EU.

 

[falcon1985]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57367837-245/anonymous-takes-aim-over-europes-sopa/?tag=mncol

Europe is due to vote on ACTA in june while the US has already signed it. So if Europe doesn't sign it, you europeans should swim across the atlantic and save us.

Just a thought.

I like how the treaty that America is already in is "Europe's SOPA."

What? You don't like being a Bond villain? We can all go live in volcanoes and have laser-beam hat wearing angry sea bass doing our bidding. Shit be sweet yo...

Seriously though, i think Germany is also not really warming up to this shit heap either. Sad thing is, I have no idea how the Dutch government feels about it. In fact, it isn't even on any news service here. It's like no one knows about it.

 

[Farotsu]

Fun fact. This should actually be named "Japan's and US's SOPA" as they were the first ones to start working on the agreement. Europe, Canada and Switzerland came into the talks during the same year. And EU was the last big party to actually sign it while the others already have.

Also apparently our country and several others just heard that "it works effectively against piratism and counterfeiting products" and went in with a "sounds good! We'll support it" without any actual clue on how it'd work and what the public fallout will be once this goes public. Also I'm pretty sure that the EU high court will demand some changes as this agreement violates several civil rights.

I think the worst part about it was the part about "non-disclosure agreements" the participants to the committees working on it had to sign. I mean if the agreement has to be kept hidden from the public it is certainly going to have our best interests at heart right?

 

[Section Crow]

wait does this or doesn't it involve Britain?

cause i am kinda confused whether it's a european classed country or not

edit: okay cool, anonymous is on a 'crusade' and acta looks like it's gonna pass and i apparently need to watch the news more often

 

[gigastar]

Id really like to think that its not going to happen, but given that the Eurozone is currently making American debt problems look manageable, the majority probably will sign it and ill have to consider whether American immigration is worth getting away from it.

 

[Something Amyss]

What? You don't like being a Bond villain? We can all go live in volcanoes and have laser-beam hat wearing angry sea bass doing our bidding. Shit be sweet yo...

Oh, I like being a Bond villain just fine. It's just that it stands to reason that if this was Europe's SOPA, it would have been America's, too, since we already signed up.

It's just silly.

Unlike my plans to train an army of attack kittens to march on France...

But I've said too much.

 

[NightHawk21]

Poland I think is against it, that's all i really know about the situation. I'm sure a few other countries are but I haven't read into it much. I doubt this'll be passed.

Poland and Sweden apparently are both very against it.

I think Sweden should be very against it seeing as this would be a great change from they're very lenient internet laws (they host the pirate bay after all). Poland IMO is finally experiencing a small technological boom with some semi-major game development studios and most people having internet and participating online. I doubt they want to return to how it was even 10-20 years ago like when I last visited.

 

[BlackStar42]

wait does this or doesn't it involve Britain?

cause i am kinda confused whether it's a european classed country or not

Why wouldn't it be? We're in the EU and we're obviously part of the European continent.

 

[cookyy2k]

It only matters what France and Germany think. The way the EU voting works unless someone uses their veto only France and Germany need to vote for it for it to get approved.

EDIT before anyone points out that France and Germany don't equal over 50% of votes, or that to pass a vote requires 62% of the EU population to be represented as a "yes" vote, I'm actually taking the cynical route, if you look at EU voting everyone tends to fall in line with France and Germany. Hell when Spain wanted to vote against something Germany and France wanted Germany threatened to cut economic ties with Spain a move that would have bankrupted them...

 

[V8 Ninja]

Let's calm down guys.

From Wikipedia:

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet, and would create a new governing body outside existing forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, or the United Nations.

ACTA by itself isn't going to do anything. It's just a legal framework that allows for anti-piracy laws to be put in place. We, the people, still have the ability to decide whether future proposed bills become actual law. It's not going to turn the internet into Censorship-ville.

EDIT: After some thought and realizing that I haven't read the trade agreement, I plan to read the agreement and report my findings afterwords. While I hope ACTA is just being misunderstood, I have a feeling that it isn't.

 

[Isalan]

I know as much as I wrote to my MEP and he wrote back saying he, and any other members of the UKIP party, would vote this down like Wowhead thread about Rift.

Hopefully, people will see sense, though from a historical perspective people seeing sense is about as likely as people having tolerance for other peoples religious beliefs.