Operation ACTA: London. ACTA error: Democracy not found. STOP ACTA protest Amsterdam Videomontage - Made by : Anonyway / Anonymous. ACTA Protests Sweep Across the World [PHOTOS, VIDEO] ACTA protests are sweeping across the world. Feb. 11 was dubbed an international day of action by opponents of ACTA , and turnout was highest that day, but the rallies have continued to rage on in the days since, as international anger over the controversial treaty builds.
Asthe Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement loses support in Europe, where a number of countries are putting the brakes on plans to ratify the controversial treaty, its opponents are hoping to sieze the moment by urging the world's government's to reject the treaty. Protesters have been galvanized in their efforts to stop the by recent developments that suggest the treaty may be losing international support just three weeks after 22 European Union member states signed it. ACTA would set up an international legal framework to deal with issues of counterfeiting, piracy and other crimes. On February 11th, the world will be out in an unprecedented showing of solidarity against ACTA, Access Now writes on its Web site.
Anonymous Hacks French Government Website as Acta Row Rumbles on. The hacking collective Anonymous has defaced a French government website in protest at an international copyright law and the shutdown of the file-sharing website Megaupload in the United States. Following a wave of attacks that it carried out for the same reason, the group targeted rgpp.gouv.fr, replacing the home page and installing background music, which it said is intended to incite hackers to revolt. The move was announced by anon YourAnonNews, who tweeted: "#BREAKING rgpp.gouv.fr defaced by #Anonymous with a background music track "comme des anonymes (like anonymous)" | #FRANCE |#ACTA|" Last week, hundreds of people took the street across 36 French cities to demonstrate against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta).
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the bill will primarily deal with counterfeit physical goods, such as medicine. The new homepage read: "Modernisation occurs through the understanding of technology. [Hub] Letter from Commissioner De Gucht to INTA MEPs. ACTA: Updated Analysis of the Final Version.
Acta-protests. Anti_ACTA Petition. The biggest threat to Internet freedom. Contacting the Congress: A Citizen's Congressional Directory. World Intellectual Property Organization - Wiki. WIPO members Members Non-members The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world. "[1] WIPO currently has 187 member states,[2] administers 26 international treaties,[3] and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
History[edit] The predecessor to WIPO was the BIRPI (Bureaux Internationaux Réunis pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle, French acronym for United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property), which had been established in 1893 to administer the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. WIPO was formally created by the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, which entered into force on April 26, 1970. Information network[edit] World Intellectual Property Organization - Wiki.
Stop the biggest threat to Internet freedom. 2,008,307 have signed. Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. It's outrageous -- governments of four fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way.
How to act against ACTA. This page lists different ways to take action against ACTA right now and to learn more about this dangerous agreement. ACTA is a multi-lateral trade agreement which threatens to change the Internet as we know it and puts fundamental freedoms at risk. The European Parliament will vote on ACTA this Wednesday July 4th and has the occasion to reject it once and for all. You will find on this page different ways you can act to defeat ACTA as a citizen. As a citizen, the main two things to do are: contacting Members of the European Parliament helping spread the word about ACTA. Contacting your Elected Representatives is the most useful thing you can do right until the wednesday's final vote in the European Parliament, last step of the procedure. [edit] How to? To easily get in touch with the right Members of the European Parliament, you can use our PiPhone. You also can use Political Memory to get the contact details of a precise MEP. [edit] Who to contact?
[edit] General advice Here are some ideas: ACTA in a Nutshell – What is ACTA? ACTA is the.