Thread: Stop acta its far more worse than sopa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is ACTA?

ACTA is an international trade agreement currently negociated 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 negociations are done secretely. Leaked documents show that 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.


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Help stop ACTA!!!!!
Intellectual property must be protected, but it should not be placed above individuals' rights to privacy and data protection.

Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), issued a report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade 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

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

It is extremely regrettable that democratic debate has been eliminated from talks that could have a major impact on such a fundamental freedom as free expression.

Reporters without Borders, European Parliament Sakharov Prize Winners

Any measures concerning people's right to go online need to be brought in through the proper democratic channels, not via self-regulation, and made into EU law

Andrea D?Incecco, public affairs manager from EuroISPA (Business association of European Internet Service Providers)

Third party liability for Internet Server Providers is like making the post office responsible for what is inside the letters they send.

Alexander Alvaro, Member of European Parliament, ALDE, Germany.

We can only assume that the final text could do great harm in developing countries and undermine the balance between the protection of intellectual property and the need to provide affordable medicines for poor people.

Rohit Malpani, OXFAM, from a press release criticising possible impact of ACTA.

We are in danger of ending up with the worst of both worlds, pushing IP rules, which are very effective at stopping access to life-saving drugs but are very bad at stopping or preventing fake drugs.

Michelle Childs of Médecins Sans Frontières, Nobel Peace Prize winners, has issued a very critical statement on ACTA.

anti-file sharing is fine, as long as it doesnt affect other things like SOPA and PIPA does.

this has absolutely nothing to do with playstation. It's a bill to stop counterfeiting....this does not belong here!

Originally Posted by Lightyear

this has absolutely nothing to do with playstation. It's a bill to stop counterfeiting....this does not belong here!

The fact that it pertains to things like MU and Filesonic losing there sharing privileges where we get our "PS3" games, than I really think it does belong here.

If you don't break the rules and download pirated games/movies/music/software then there is nothing to worry about.

We can't really complain when WE'RE the ones who are in the wrong.

PIRATES, IGNORING THE RULES OF SOCIETY SINCE WAY BACK WHEN

No, it's just that piracy will have it much harder than now. That's why, I urge everyone to sign petitions about stopping ACTA and all.
We may be in the wrong, but we can't just give up without a fight, right?

Originally Posted by Kuro666

No, it's just that piracy will have it much harder than now. That's why, I urge everyone to sign petitions about stopping ACTA and all.
We may be in the wrong, but we can't just give up without a fight, right?

What are you gonna do? Say "Please don't do this so I can keep on downloading thousands of dollars of copyrighted material for free each month"?

Pirates complaining about this bill is no different from house burglars complaining about the police and burglar alarms.

This new law will just mean that we will have to adapt, and by adapt I mean that we could find another anonymous way to share files and be safe from the chances of prosecution, or we could just purchase our games/movies/music like all the normal people out there in the world.

When you think about it, what we do is no different from going into your neighbours house and stealing their TV and then selling it in a yard sale, then complaining when the police come to arrest you. You have to remember, we are breaking the law, a few laws actually, and there are no if's or but's about it, no excuses, we are in the wrong, so we can't really complain when people try to implement things to stop us from doing what we are doing.


You know, we're given the name 'PIRATES', and pirates are criminals who take what they want with no regard for how it affects the people around them (I'm referring to the nautical pirates here), so the term 'PIRATE' is not a nice one to be labelled with as it is associated with some pretty scummy types of people (guys that kill crews on yachts all for a few measly dollars).
Maybe the real pirates should get together and sign a petition about the international naval presence in the seas off the African coast that is deployed there to protect shipping lanes from the pirates. How do you think they'd go with that petition? Not very good I would guess. And that is no different from us and this new act.

We'll find a way to keep on doing what we're doing if this act see's the light of day. Maybe the scene won't have as many uploaders because the money won't be there anymore, but the scene will still be going.

We'll probably have to hide so deep that we'll end up using the same types of boards and file hosting sites as the kiddy porn rings and terrorist organisations...........

this person just dont get it, his is very serious , everyone is *****in about the file hosts beign shut down when people like me have been warning about sopa and pipa and acta for months , so far back that it was when it was called coica, and no it is not like house burglars, when i share a file the original is not destroyed and its not depriving anyone of anything,people are so far brainwashed that they dont even know why copyright was written in the 1st place and why file sharing of anything no matter what it is is FAIR USE and why these are illegal bought laws, and to know if people are file sharing they will have to spy on everything you do , packet sniffing ,that is not right and should be illegal its illegal search and seizure, these people are scum, absolute filth, and they are passing laws against the will of the people for a small special interest, why dont you research the betamax case, where sony argued that making a copy of a copyrighted movie or any other content for your own personal use was considered FAIR USE, yes thats right sony them self argued this pint, when they wanted to sell vcr's, it was only considered piracy to make copies to sell for a profit, not for your own use, its the same reason why you are allowed to record star wars on you dvr box when it is on tv, its because that is FAIR USE ,these huge corporations have used their total media monopoly to brainwash everyone that FAIR USE is "PIRACY" its not the case, no matter how much money they spend on illegal laws that circumvent the will of the people,



AND YES LY THIS MOST CERTAINLY DOES BELONG HERE, IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS SOPA , I CANT BELIEVE THE APATHY HERE, NOBODY WANTED TO PAY ATTENTION TO SOPA AND PIPA OR COICA EITHER AND NOW THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THEI SITE IS THREATENED, I DONT KNOW WTF IT IS GOING TO TAKE TO GET YOU PEOPLE TO WAKE YP AND REALIZE WHAT IS GOING ON , AND THESE BILLS AND THIS ACTA TREATY ARE NOT ABOUT STOPING "PIRACY" OR COUNTERFEIT GOODS THERE ABOUT SEIZING CONTROL OVER THE ENTIRE INTERNET FOR THE INTERESTS OF A GREEDY FEW CORPORATIONS WHO ALREAY HAVE A TOTAL MONOPOLY OVER THE MEDIA , AND WHO ALSO OWN AND CONTROL OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE , HOW CAN ANYONE SIT HERE AND SAY THIS DONT BELONG HERE? HAVE YOU NOT SEEN WHAT JUST HAPPENED? , ARE YOU ALL CRAZY?OR JUST THAT DUMB , THEY WANT TO MAKE THE WEB LIKE JUST TELLEVISION , WHERE ALL CONTENT IS STRICTLY CONTROLLED and only a few corporations will limit everything you allowed to see and do I GUESS SHUTTING DOWN 10% OF THE INTERNET WAS NOT A BIG ENOUG WAKE UP CALL FOR YOU ALL JEEZ

are all you people braindead? you seriously need to grow the fuk up

dont listen to retards like freqeteq he is either severely mentally retarded with a serious case of down syndrome and was dropped on his head repeatedly or he is a corporate schill who works for a media company

Originally Posted by bostonoob1

dont listen to retards like freqeteq he is either severely mentally retarded with a serious case of down syndrome and was dropped on his head repeatedly or he is a corporate schill who works for a media company

LOL, your a funny wee man. You need to settle down with the tantrum, sit back, take a breath and relax a little.

So piracy is not theft? OK. Sharing copyrighted material is FAIR USE? Right......

Your rant is all over the place. I think that most people can agree that what we do isn't considered 'fair use'. I can admit it. It is stealing, nothing more, nothing less. It is not the same as copying a movie off the TV. I get games either by hiring or downloading, and burn them to my HDD, if I did not have that ability then I would of instead purchased some of those games or hired them more often or maybe never played them at all. So I cost companies, both games developer, distributors, retailers, advertisers, delivery drivers, sales staff, video shops and I'm sure others as well, money through my piracy. I am essentially 'stealing' money from them through their loss of profit. One example is the local video shop, they would have made more money off me if I had had to hire UC3 for more than one day. I cannot see how that would be considered 'fair use'.

If you think it is 'fair use' what we do, then fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I don't think my post warranted your reply. All it was saying was that if you see a wall of water coming towards you that is unstoppable, then learn to swim. And we have a wall of water coming at us in the form of these various acts being implemented around the world, it is inevitable that these acts, or ones similar, will come into law. So instead of whining about it, adapt. Learn to swim.


Just some friendly words from your resident undercover down syndrome corporate schill, LOL.