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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] 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. The world's network of ACTA opponents declared Saturday, Feb. 11 as a day of action, riding a rising tide of international anger over the treaty and its provisions that have the potential to limit Internet freedom, decrease online privacy and even restrict worldwide access to generic drugs.

ACTA would set up an international legal framework to deal with issues of counterfeiting, piracy and other crimes.

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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. [Hub] Letter from Commissioner De Gucht to INTA MEPs. ACTA: Updated Analysis of the Final Version.

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Acta-protests. Anti_ACTA Petition. The biggest threat to Internet freedom. 692,547 have signed.

Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 7 July 2012 VICTORY! Our 2.8 million strong campaign helped MEPs axe the ACTA treaty in the European Parliament. This dangerous treaty would have been rubber stamped - threatening our Internet freedom and allowing corporations to police us online. Read more about the ACTA victory here. Update: 13 April 2012 GREAT NEWS! Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! 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. 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. ACTA in a Nutshell – What is ACTA?  ACTA is the.