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=Anti-ACTA Movement=

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What is ACTA?
ACTA is an Acronym for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It is an international agreement that is currently being drafted behind closed doors, and aims to strengthen intellectual property enforcement. Several leaks of what has been drafted so far have revealed that ACTA will have a significant impact on your personal freedoms, and may change the web as we know it.

Part of what is worrisome about ACTA, is that all formal requests for its details in the US have been denied on national security grounds. This is copyright we are talking about, not nuclear secrets.

Why should I be concerned?
How would you like it when every time you cross a border or go through an airport, all your digital devices (i.e. laptop, iPod, cell phone, etc.) get searched by a border guard? Now what if I told you that the border guard is looking for content that they THINK is infringing a copyright, and seize your device(s) based on that subjective decision, WITHOUT A COMPLAINT FROM THE RIGHTS HOLDER

And yes, that means they may be looking at your sensitive business information, financial data, pictures from when you went on vacation, pictures that were meant to be seen only by you and someone special, etc.

Now what if I told you that ACTA will empower ISP's to spy on your online behaviors to determine whether you are engaging in copyright infringements, and cut you off from the Internet after 3 strikes just so they don't get sued by greedy Rights holders (such as the RIAA, MPAA, etc.). WITHOUT NECESSARILY HAVING YOUR CASE HEARD IN FRONT OF A JUDGE!

Are we supposed to just let these huge corporate rights holders exploit us over copyright? Copyright was intended to provide incentive to create new original works, and offer some protection for it. Currently it is being exploited for huge financial gains by huge conglomerate media corps, while trying to reduce our personal freedoms.