Total Members Voted: 12
The easiest thing I can do is just torrent everything from now on. If these sorts of laws are being put into effect to the benefit of the entertainment industry, then I'll just stop buying their stuff. Boycott, motherforgeters.
gee whilly!i sure am glad i live in australia where the government is busy fighting itself instead of fighting piracy!
Ruin economy to save internet. Quality logic.
09.20 - The signing took place at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where ambassador Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska joined her EU counterparts in approving the agreement.Of the 27 EU member states, Cyprus, Estonia, Slovakia, Germany and Holland did not sign, the latter two citing “procedural grounds”, while simultaneously affirming that they would do so in the near future.In spite of the hacking of governmental websites since the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk insisted on Tuesday that his government would not “succumb to blackmail.”Yesterday, large demonstrations against the agreement took place in cities across Poland.Over 10,000 descended on the Market Square in Krakow, and over 5000 did likewise in the western city of Wroclaw.In Kielce, central Poland, 24 people were arrested after vandalism to cars and road signs occurred during a demonstration in the city. One policeman was taken to hospital with injuries.Kamil Tokarski, a spokesman for the Kielce police, said that charges would be brought.“Policeman dressed in civilian clothes were among the demonstrators," he revealed in an interview with television station TVN.With governmental web sites, including that of the Prime Minister, still inaccessible owing to hackers, the government has endeavoured to convince the public that the agreement has yet to be ratified in the Polish parliament.09.27 - Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party, Civic Platform (PO) has posted a '10 myths about ACTA' article on its web site. PO says that ACTA is not a “secret agreement” as critics have suggested. Consultations on the agreement have kept to standards required by the Lisbon Treaty, with the European Parliament informed and MEPs voted on ACTA in November 2010.PM Tusk's party also say the agreement is in line with international trade law, particularly the so-called TRIPS agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).The governing party also says that ACTA is not an attack on individual freedoms but concerns large scale illegal activity, mainly concerning organised crime groups.ACTA obliges ISPs to monitor content put onto the web by users but does not contain a “three strikes and out” clause, as has been claimed, says the government.09.45 - Minister for Digitalization Michal Boni admits the government has “got a scolding” over signing ACTA. “We are entering a new era of dispute related to a new '2.0 generation'. For young people, the most important sphere of freedom is on the internet and not as it was for my geberation – an independent Poland,” the minister has told Polish Radio.10.01 - A special task force has reportedly been convened to work out how to protect government web sites from attack by Anonymous and other online protest groups, says spokesman for the Ministry of Digitalization, Artur Koziołek. (PAP)10.18 - Liberal Dutch Marietje Schaake Member of the European Parliament has posted a statement on Reddit, where she argues: "As a Member of the European Parliament (EP), I am concerned about the ACTA treaty in the international trade committee... The internet blackouts by thousands of websites last week in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) have raised lively discussions."
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