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Media companies are in an all-out war with people buying their merchandise. Not only do the companies don’t want you to share your music or movies with your friends in your own house, but they also don’t seem to like when people backup their discs. After promising that they would hide most of ACTA legisl... |
23 July 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Overturning SOPA early this year may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but it was a massive change in the way the web can influence politics and the other way around. Many thousands of sites banded together, without much of a coordination effort, to fight the evil that threatened the web as a whole. M... |
19 July 2012
15:50 GMT |
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ACTA, the global trade agreement that threatened to create serious problems for the open internet, is dead in the EU. The European Parliament voted on the matter today though there were some concerns that the vote would be postponed.
The majority of votes were against the agreement, 478 parliamentarians. Only 39 v... |
4 July 2012
08:50 GMT |
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The European Parliament has struck another blow to the head of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Earlier today, the International Trade Committee (INTA) recommended the rejection of the bill with 19 votes to 12.
According to RT, this was the last committee delegated to provide a repo... |
21 June 2012
10:38 GMT |
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All those protests are showing their effects and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) seems to be going down, slowly, but surely. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) have made public the fact that they will reject ACTA.
“Although we unambiguously support the protection of intelle... |
26 April 2012
10:37 GMT |
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David Martin, the European Parliament’s (EP) rapporteur on the controversial treaty, revealed that he would recommend the Parliament to reject the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
According to FFII’s ACTA Blog, at the end of a Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats meeting... |
13 April 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Today, March 27, the European Parliament (EP) took a vote on whether or not to refer the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
As a result of the vote, the EU Commission’s suggestion to send ACTA over to the Court of Justice will not be taken into con... |
27 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Officials from Netherlands already took a step back as far as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is concerned, but they didn’t make any promises that it would not be eventually ratified. Anonymous wants to make sure that ACTA isn’t approved so they made a video statement for the country’... |
6 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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The Petitions Committee from the European Parliament (EP) received a petition signed by close to 2.5 million Internet users from all across the globe which ask Europe to “stand for a free and open Internet and reject the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which would destroy it.&rdq... |
29 February 2012
08:13 GMT |
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The recent protests that have taken place worldwide and the more or less correct claims about its effects have made the European Commission cautious about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As a result, the Commission decided to let the European Court of Justice examine the treaty to determine if it viol... |
22 February 2012
10:57 GMT |
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After a number of European countries decided to wait for the European Parliament’s decision before ratifying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EP revealed its plans on publicly discussing the pact on March 1, 2012.
As a result of these discussions, the European Parliament Committee for Intern... |
20 February 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) continue both online and in the real world. Anonymous hackers defaced a series of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) webpages and the site that belongs to the NCPW to show that they don’t approve of the pact. The Hacker News informs that... |
17 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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The list of European countries that delay the ratification of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has two new additions: Bulgaria and Netherlands.
According to The Guardian, in Bulgaria the massive protests are showing their first results, the country’s economy minister, Traicho Traik... |
16 February 2012
10:44 GMT |
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The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany. While they didn’t clearly state that they were against ACTA, German officials decided to postpone their decision on whether or not th... |
11 February 2012
06:13 GMT |
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While some anti-ACTA protests take place in the real world, some still believe that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are the best way to show their disapproval against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
As a result, French anti-piracy outfit Hadopi and others are named as targ... |
6 February 2012
09:52 GMT |
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While many hackers decided to protest against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by trying to raise awareness and by calling people to physical protest, some hacktivists still prefer the good old fashion way.
Voice Of Grey Hat informs that Teamgreyhat, the hacker collective that’s kn... |
4 February 2012
06:18 GMT |
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA as many of us know it, is highly debated and protested against these days, but few know that a lot of the anti-ACTA arguments are highly inaccurate.
Since the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was abandoned, Internet users from all over the world turned their attention to... |
1 February 2012
04:25 GMT |
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After operations against the drug lords from the Zetas cartel were postponed, Anonymous Mexico turned its attention to other problems such as the anti-piracy law currently proposed by the country’s government.
According to RT, the sites of the Senate and the Interior Ministry were temporarily taken offline as ... |
30 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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A 22-year-old student from Poland was arrested after being suspected of breaching and defacing the official website of the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as part of the anti-ACTA online protests. According to reports, Lucasz S. was apprehended in the city of Wroclaw, but denied having any involvement wi... |
30 January 2012
04:59 GMT |
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After news got out that the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was signed by 22 European Union member countries, plans to protest intensified, but for now, distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks were replaced with more diplomatic approaches.
Before the agreement was signed Anonymous hacke... |
28 January 2012
06:58 GMT |
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Things are cooling off when it comes to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), but now another similar agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), may be signed and activist from both online and the real world are preparing to make their voices heard.
While the ... |
26 January 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Douwe Korff and Ian Brown, members of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, officially stated their opinion regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as it is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Recently, eig... |
7 October 2011
02:57 GMT |
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The Internet as we know it may not be the same even a year from now, at least, if the current secret negotiations between the US, EU and several other countries turn out to be successful, as it looks very likely they'll be. The Internet changes all the time, it's part of its nature, mostly though, it's... |
22 February 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Be careful what you feed that iPod from now on, as new copyright protection laws allegedly give border guards the right to seize iPods and mobile phones suspected of containing illegally-downloaded contents."...reports claim the Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterf... |
28 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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