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Last Updated - 2012-01-27 06:00
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| What is ACTA? Where can I find out about ACTA? | |
| Category: Media | |
The main points are:
(Source: www.laqua..) More information can be found on ACTA here: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA What makes ACTA so controversial here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/056c38bab9bf699e4e_rgm6iyv2t.pdf You can sign a UK Petition on direct.gov here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20685 This needs 100,000 votes to be considered for House of Commons. In the mean time, the following places can be contacted:
to get the message to European Parliment. | |
| Posted 5 days ago | |
| SOPA and PIPA have been shelved! | |
| Category: Media | |
| Several posts on other websites and twitter have come up, announcing that SOPA and PIPA have both been shelved. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is putting the PROTECT IP Act on hold. "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT IP Act," he said in on twitter. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), a sponsor of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), followed and announced he would be delaying consideration of the legislation. The idea behind these is likely to come back within a short period of time, however they are likely to be much more revised and probably wont be called SOPA and PIPA. As proven yesterday with megaupload / megavideo, the acts aren't needed at the moment to take action. So the internet is safe for today, search engines can continue with their normal crawling, and socially generated sites (wiki, facebook, twitter.. etc) can stay as they are, the way the users like them. | |
| Posted 1 weeks ago | |
| Obama waves goodbye to SOPA | |
| Category: Media | |
| President Obama has stated that he will not support the Bill. It has been decided that the house will revisit the bill next month, and that any future bills MUST be more narrowly focused. “The voice of the Internet community has been heard,” said Issa. “Much more education for members of Congress about the workings of the Internet is essential if anti-piracy legislation is to be workable and achieve broad appeal.”- California congressman Darrell Issa However, PIPA is still in line for later this month, and would still allow companies to sue on website copyright infringment. Obama has come out against both bills. The white house response can be found Here. | |
| Posted 1 weeks ago | |
| Megaupload is Gone - Without SOPA or PIPA | |
| Category: Media | |
| Today the Federal Bureau of Investigation has shut down Megaupload.com. So why do we need SOPA or PIPA? Megauploads 'leaders' have been charged with money laundering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, and some other charges about to piracy laws. So goodbye Megaupload, hopefully the Senates will realise SOPA and PIPA aren't needed, and the rest of the internet is kept the way it is. | |
| Posted 1 weeks ago | |
| A Thankyou from Wikipedia | |
| Category: General | |
Thank you.The Wikipedia blackout is over — and you have spoken. More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. From all around the world your messages dominated social media and the news. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open Internet. For us, this is not about money. It’s about knowledge. As a community of authors, editors, photographers, and programmers, we invite everyone to share and build upon our work. Our mission is to empower and engage people to document the sum of all human knowledge, and to make it available to all humanity, in perpetuity. We care passionately about the rights of authors, because we are authors. SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. What’s happened in the last 24 hours, though, is extraordinary. The internet has enabled creativity, knowledge, and innovation to shine, and as Wikipedia went dark, you've directed your energy to protecting it. We’re turning the lights back on. Help us keep them shining brightly. Read more Source: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage | |
| Posted 1 weeks ago |
