The fact that this sort of thing has to "leak", is much of the point IMHO. They are deciding what you can buy, and how - but what they really are writing about in the "agreement" is what to do with you if you don't buy your shit from THEM.
Here's what to do:
PIRATE MOAR - SHARE EVERYTHING!
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Anonymous2010-03-28 5:27
For the tl;dr crowd:
ACTA = government censors computers and networks for 'the greater good'
If the lightbulb was invented after this agreement noone but GE would be alowed to sell them. Or if the wheel was invented after this agreement -no cars.
This agreement is putting a ball and chain on evolution, and the free market. ACTA is mafia-law.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 5:34
If I can't steal it using the internet, I'll just go back to stealing from stores.
Way to go overlords.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 5:41
tl;dr sharing is not stealing, sharing is not piracy
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)
If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”
Copyright apologists often use words like “stolen” and “theft” to describe copyright infringement. At the same time, they ask us to treat the legal system as an authority on ethics: if copying is forbidden, it must be wrong.
So it is pertinent to mention that the legal system—at least in the US—rejects the idea that copyright infringement is “theft.” Copyright apologists are making an appeal to authority…and misrepresenting what authority says.
The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.
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Anonymous2010-03-30 13:03
Kinda like the Irish home rule bill the British government tried to pass to hand Northern Ireland back to the South of Ireland. The North rebelled and armed themselves to the teeth, so the British government slaughtered them at The Somme in WW1 so there'd be no-one left to fight them. Now look at the fucking shit hole. Terrorists in government and more terrorists still killing people.
ACTA must be defeated. LET US NOT BE LEAD LIKE LAMBS TO THE SOMME! I mean slaughter.