Stop ACTA

[ice.adi49]

I wonder why governments keep proposing laws to severely restrict human rights and freedom.
SOPA, PIPA, NDAA, ACTA ... you name it, disguised under the name of "copyright". And all of them behind our backs, to serve their own interests, not ours. They never ask the public opinion, they just come up with some laws and try to enforce them. And lately, to escape any direct responsibility, they try to globalize these organizations so no one can bring them to a court law. Because since they don't belong to any country, yet they can act in any country, then they have the power to do as they please and no one can touch them.

What exactly does this mean? That multinational organizations which don't belong to any country now dictate what the governments should do. That most of the countries are ruled behind the scene and the politicians and governments are just puppets serving the interests of these organizations.

I am amazed how people still indulge these kind of criminal acts against them, just because "that's the law".
No one ask themselves anymore? ... Who voted the law? Who interests is that law serving?

They say that people evolved and became more civilized, but all i see is the same old hierarchical structure, which dates since the very known history of mankind. A few who have the power and enforce laws to serve their own interests, others who those few pay in order to maintain the laws (guards, police ... etc), and the rest of tax payers who works so that the few ones can do whatever they want.
If long ago the slaves were forced to work without any payment, today the slaves are begging for a low salary job ... therefor yes, from this point of view the humanity evolved, the ultimate slavery system was developed.

But hey, that's what happens when you're giving away your power. There are not powerful people, there are only people who allow others to have the power
Now i wonder if this is a designed system to force people to wake up from their miserable day to day life and realize their true potential, since willingly only few people will strive for self development. But when you have no more choices, no more comfort, what will you do? Keep lying to yourself that everything is going to be ok? Or take the responsibility for your own life and start to live according to your standards, your ideas and your feelings?

Well for an insight about ACTA, check these pages: wikipedia - about acta, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0, http://www.stopacta.info/helpstopacta

[twitah36]

Is all about money.

[visionarygeckos42]

I agree this needs to be stopped.

[descalzo]

They couldn't start proposing these kind of laws if criminals didn't insist on stealing the property of others.

Stop warez, nulled scripts, pirated music and movies, knock-off drugs, etc, and the governments cannot propose the laws that usually go way too far.

[CWeb Creative]

While that may be true, unfortunately that will likely never happen. Even though those things are in reality stealing (mainly online piracy, warez, nulled scrips) they simply dont seem the same as taking something physical directly from a person. Due to this fact many people dont make the moral connection between copyright infringement and stealing. Another reason that it is so rampant is that it is so easy. Copying a file is so easy and simple that it is very hard to prevent. Once the file has reached the internet it simply becomes data just like anything else. The internet does not know nor care what type of file it is, what copyrights it has and what said file contains. To make this harder would mean taking control of a users computer away from the user and put it in the hands of the government or the corporations (sometimes the same thing) which is going way too far and sacrificing way to much in the name of the law.

Thats just my two cents. Take it for what it's worth, which varies from person to person.

[admin.1]

They couldn't start proposing these kind of laws if criminals didn't insist on stealing the property of others.

Stop warez, nulled scripts, pirated music and movies, knock-off drugs, etc, and the governments cannot propose the laws that usually go way too far.

Don't compare warez to drugs. It's the lawmakers, politicians and big corporations who do the real stealing. They rip off the majority of the people to make money for a few. There isn't enough jobs for all people to be able to afford all the digital entertainment in a legal way. These so-called laws are unacceptable if you believe in democracy and freedom. There are more urgent things to be looked into in the current economical times.

[Sharky]

Like why I haven't had a pay rise in a while.

Seriously, though - a lot of people are looking at the production studios huge profits and how much the so-called actors are getting paid and wondering if it's really worth it. Piracy has probably led the way for recordable media, and by stopping piracy, there's no guarantee that the number of sales will rise proportionately.

[mjaoune5571]

These stupid laws are not only affecting the USA, but the whole world. I am not from the USA, and I really want to kill that guy who came up with it.

[descalzo]

These stupid laws are not only affecting the USA, but the whole world. I am not from the USA, and I really want to kill that guy who came up with it.

Which "stupid laws" are you talking about?

Copyright/patent laws in general or the newer, overreaching laws?

[Sharky]

I'm sure Copyright is overreaching it's original intentions...

This is quite an interesting read: http://questioncopyright.org/promise