{"id":1023,"date":"2012-02-11T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2012-02-11T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:57:33","slug":"kill-acta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/kill-acta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill ACTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<form id=\"write-letter\" action=\"http:\/\/act.fightforthefuture.org\/page\/s\/acta-letters\" method=\"post\">Over at Boing Boing Cory Doctorow has issued a call to arms: \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/11\/today-is-the-day-to-kill-acta.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Today is the day to Kill Acta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Today is the day of global protest against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty negotiated in secret (even parliaments and other legislatures weren&#8217;t allowed to see the the working drafts), and which many governments (include the American government) are planning to adopt without legislative approval or debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopacta.info\/\">Learn about it and decide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stop ACTA &amp; TPP:Tell your country&#8217;s officials: NEVER use secretive trade agreements to meddle with the Internet. 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ACTA&#8217;s vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve &#8216;a commercial scale&#8217; (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior (&#8216;aiding and abetting&#8217; art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the &#8216;ACTA Committee&#8217; to &#8216;propose amendments to [ACTA]&#8217; without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it&#8217;s impossible to know what you&#8217;re voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.\t\t\t\t<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p class=\"copywrong\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\">For European users, this form will email every MEP with a known email address.<br \/>\nFight For The Future may contact you about future campaigns. We will never share your email with anyone. <a href=\"http:\/\/fightforthefuture.org\/privacy\">Privacy Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copywrong\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\">You can <a href=\"http:\/\/killacta.org\/#code\">embed this form in your own website<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Boing Boing Cory Doctorow has issued a call to arms: \u00a0 Today is the day to Kill Acta. &#8220;Today is the day of global protest against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty negotiated in secret (even parliaments and other legislatures weren&#8217;t allowed to see the the working drafts), and which many&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/kill-acta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kill ACTA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[98,76],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-acta","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5225,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/american-manifesto-boing-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1023,"position":0},"title":"American Manifesto &#8211; Boing Boing","author":"leems","date":"August 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 American Manifesto by\u00a0Todd Thyberg via Boing Boing is a fabulous piece of thoroughly cited education.\u00a0 How can we hope to play our part in our country if we don't know the facts?\u00a0 And how can we call it our country if we don't play our part?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6235,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/hamlet-is-way-funnier-as-choose-your-own-adventure-game-boing-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1023,"position":1},"title":"Hamlet is way funnier as choose-your-own-adventure game &#8211; Boing Boing","author":"leems","date":"June 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The world is making games that I want to play...for the first time since Strawberry Shortcake on Atari! 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