What Is ACTA ?

[ktlight]

"ACTA - 'The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement' is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement.

ACTA would establish a new international legal framework that would create its "own governing body outside existing international institutions" such as - the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) or the United Nations.


An open letter signed by many organizations, including Consumers International, EDRi (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ASIC (French trade association for web 2.0 companies), and the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), states that "the current draft of ACTA would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy."

[UPDATE] - It seems, SOPA and PIPA were just distractions! while they signed a copyright treaty "ACTA" behind the curtain...

US, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, and many EU nations have already signed this secret censorship pact last year in 2011.
The Recent country to join the list is - Poland."

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[Davidallany]

This is like putting a perfume on a pig, kt, besides the UN has no real power, the real power goes to those with Vito. There is hope however in some of those grass-root movements, provided they are in alignment with serving the people first, not lifting few individuals on people's shoulders. Banks will get creative in finding ways into people's pockets.
Those kings and queens around the world are trying to subdue the pissed off, awakened dragon, who has been giving them golden eggs for ages. Fly dragon, be free forever now.

I don't know why there is an angry face on my post, since I am relaxed and smiling :)