suzywire:

Polish politicans (Palikot’s Movement) wear Guy Fawkes mask in Parliament to protest against ACTA.

(Source: skyeofskynet)

epic4chan:

DEAR WORLD, Internet service providers will begin spying on you!

This is not just the USA, this is also Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and more.

ACTA is another attempt by Hollywood and others to end privacy and freedom to protect their profits.

These well done videos provide an overview:

• Video 1
• Video 2

We got to stop this!

Poland is planning protests.

Europe, contact your representatives.

UK, sign this petition.

USA, reblog this post. Make new posts. Join the EFF. Stay involved.

They won’t give up, and neither will we.

unknown20troper:

justaway-sama:

I am sure that we have all heard about ACTA to some extent, whether it’s now, nearing crisis point, or before, going as far as two or three years back, when only a very few people paid any attention or tried protesting.

This is not going to be a dense, heavy post about the technicalities. This is going to be a post of anger and upset, because I realise what ACTA will DO to me and my rights.

All of us are responsible for doing something about it. I’m a casual fandom reblogger typing away at this until 5am because I felt that instead of drooling over my latest fandom crush, I should be a little more concerned for my rights and for my bloody internets, or maybe there wouldn’t BE a bloody online fandom for me to roll around in anymore. ACTA is not a distant threat. This is not at home during the great war, amping up production and keeping up morale. This, for citizens of the internet, is facing the enemy’s rifle’s rapid rattle. Or the stutter of their fucking machine guns as it sweeps the front and prepares to mow us down. As 30 Seconds to Mars knows, This is War.

What ACTA says it is:

• Protection for intellectual property
• For the benefit of rights holders, and “legitimate businesses”
• For sustainable development of world economy
• Combating copyright infringement, piracy, “theft” of intellectual property

What ACTA is

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
• Pandering to the outdated economic module the MPAA/RIAA (now calleDd the MAFIAA, guys) and their little (or not so little) Mafia wants the world to run on but has really become steadily more obsolete with the digital age,
• WORLD WIDE, NOT JUST EUROPEAN. 
• INCLUDING The US, for those of you getting complacent with our small victory over SOPA.
• A VIOLATION OF OUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS in some of its parts.
• Aimed only to benefit a very rich and very powerful minority while infringing upon the rights of every bloody one else.
• SIGNED AND NEGOTIATED IN SECRET, Sometimes by people who were not elected to represent their countries.
• Wrong
• Gonna fuck up our internets.
• Available to read here as a pdf, thanks to being leaked.

What ACTA will mean for the Internet

• Sites shut down. Tumblr, Youtube, Twitter, etc. All these sites that we love and cherish and which foster our creativity and artistic expression and all those unnecessary little lovelies will be easily taken down.
• Sites like MediaFire, Piratebay, etc. Direct downloads or torrents, it doesn’t matter. Gone. Just like Megaupload.
• Covers of Lady Gaga songs and lolcats of a cat’s head photoshopped onto Superman’s body. Gone.
• Fanfiction too, depending on how far they take it. Well, not really. But would you really put it past these people?
• Remember this lovely It Gets Better video? Part of the Google Chrome campaign of “The web is what you make of it”? Well, not anymore it isn’t fuckers.

What ACTA will mean for you as an individual with free thoughts and the right to express them

• Constant monitoring of all information you send and receive on the Internet. Scat, tentacles, watersports, fisting, Rebecca Black, Nyan cat, Nicholas Cage movies, cybersex with your significant other or a not so significant Omegle user. Emotastic blog entries, bad poetry, bad anime fanart. Everything you send and receive, your ISP provider will be required to monitor for any signs of copyright violation, etc. You could get sent to jail and also fined a fucking hefty sum for it if you are caught. And now, you ARE just one bad Justin Bieber cover away from copyright violation
• Also talk about border checks to see what pirated goodies exist on your laptop. Take that shit right out and rattle off a list of all your downloaded You Me at Six albums. Or maybe your old copy of Photoshop before you improved enough to be motivated to buy it. Or your horriblesubs folder. Whatever it is. This clause is not agreed upon by all parties, but the possibility of it is still quite real.

What you can do

• ARGUE against it and take action, which means
• Petitioning to your government
• Raising awareness for what ACTA can do
• Contacting your members of parliament, etc
• Lash out against groups like the MPAA/RIAA/MAFIAA or whatever pretty names they’ve tacked onto themselves. Whatever rich bullies lobbying to suppress our rights.
• RAISE HELL FOR YOUR RIGHTS.

#TUMBLR #YOU ASSHATS

(Source: justaways)

internet-justice:

and they mostly talk about the things they won’t be able to watch or listen to, but it’s much more serious than that.

• You will be punished for any copyrighted you share, even if it’s accidental (That means that all of those recording artist that got started by singing covers on youtube would have been in violation, Beiber. If you post a video of anything and there’s a popular song in the background, censored. )
• Fortune 500 companies, Big Pharma, and Hollywood would have the power to demand small start-up companies online be shut down or fined into oblivion if they feel that they’re not doing their censoring correctly.
• Sites will be held responsible, or even shutdown, for anything that any user posts.
• With ACTA, governments will have the power to monitor you and your family’s actions through your internet provider to make sure that you’re not violating copyrights.

These things are serious and they’re being kept quiet and voted on today. SOPA/PIPA may only effect US companies, but ACTA will effect 39 countries. ACTA is scary. Take action and stay informed.

You guys.

This is the theme song for the Internet War 2012.

This is only a bit of what the Wikipedia entry says:

The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2011, more than 2.1 billion people — nearly a third of Earth’s population — use the services of the Internet.

The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.

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The technology is there and it simply cannot be universally destroyed.

Prepare yourself. Anonymous will always win.

(Source: eisenbagel)