STOP ACTA NOW! ~ Sign The Petition! - The New Threat To The Net

I created this short video to inform as many people as possible about ACTA in one quick and easy video. Please share this video in anyway you can, Twitter, Facebook etc. Sign the petition below! Almost 1 million signatures! http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl
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ACTA - 'The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement' is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement.

ACTA would establish a new international legal framework that would create its "own governing body outside existing international institutions" such as - the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) or the United Nations.


An open letter signed by many organizations, including Consumers International, EDRi (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ASIC (French trade association for web 2.0 companies), and the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), states that "the current draft of ACTA would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy."

[UPDATE] - It seems, SOPA and PIPA were just distractions! while they signed a copyright treaty "ACTA" behind the curtain...

US, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, and many EU nations have already signed this secret censorship pact last year in 2011.

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[repfreedomforce]

Why would you have a "Standard YouTube License" for a video like this when you have the option of "Creative Commons"? The standard license puts your video under government copyright laws, whereas with Creative Commons, you control the share-ability of your creation. Please learn and spread the word about Creative Commons, a way around outdated IP laws.

[tradgedyandhope]

@repfreedomforce Because youtube will not allow me to make it Creative Commons.. Because the music I used in the background is some how copyrighted .. Even though it is from a royalty free website... And I made the animation myself.. If you don't own all the rights to the video, then you are not allowed to make it "Creative Commons".. Very annoying.. Otherwise I would have put it as it.

[Goodfightlads]

I highly doubt a petition is going to solve anything, but yes the internet must remain free and open.

[tradgedyandhope]

@Goodfightlads No one is saying it will. This video is mainly to inform people about ACTA it is up to them to do something. But you may aswell sign the petition, almost 1 million people have and it only takes a second. Plus I used lots of footage of ACTA protests which is what is also needed, to help stop ACTA.

[OriginalTonyLo]

LMAO. Obasama Disliked this video! oops. typo? xD

[intezam]

SIGNED!

[FlowSense544]

How about we get all dressed up like v from vendetta and start riots all over the country!

[5Moki5]

WHAT'S THE FIRST SONG CALLED ?!?!? <3

[cloudskipa]

The petition is doing well!

[atomicdruid]

@tradgedyandhope So, in the interest of the greater goal, don't you think you should have done this with someone's music that's not copyrighted? Or even with no music at all?

[dbhlnn]

My country signed ACTA 2 days ago and TODAY is the day ACTA was mentioned first ever in the media.

This is corrupt and insane.

[breathingwater76]

This would put EVERYONE in jail.

[MANUBIBI14]

what's the song at 1:10?