if huge corporations from The Entertainment Industry are so concerned about making money, why not add advertisment tracker links on torrent and other download links where adverts being clicked will pay the companies revenue as a more logical Alternative instead of a Fascist Law like ACTA in The first place!

Facism at its best... courtesy of the nation which professes itself to be the 'defender of the free world'.

I guess, when the elites keep get things for free, which ordinary citizens must pay for, the tag 'defender of the free world' to describe the US of A technically holds true.


One of the reasons why I choose to boycott products made in USA/UK/France/... and will continue to do so until these coutries get serious about embracing true democracy (which is really just an illusion to the voting public of the West). Obviously, the countries ruled by monarchies and those nations which are run by private central banks only profess to hoodwink the gullible public into believing they have John Doe's best interest... which is how they can get away with passing such undemocractic bills.

Henry wrote in #19
reply to LDR, your country was founded in viloence ! A massacre took place so the cowardly brits and zionist familes would feel safe in their plotting! Clearing the land for the hell to come they call order! The 3 most barbaric mass destrction weapons in world history have ALL been used by the USA in it's short history! Biological, chemical and atomic bomb!  Contaminated blankets given to native americans, chemicals used agent orange in Vietnam and Iraq! A bomb in Japan!  A disgrace that you are so ill informed and spread lies, as a cancerous cell for a country loyal to Israel
__________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ _ Umm what? I didnt even post on this story yet? Glad to see you are always thinking of me though, im touched. Oh, and cool story, but im not American.

Black March Boycott protest ACTA, do NOT buy Movies, Music and Video Games for the entire month of March.  Send a clear message to the entertainment industry and have them watch their profit margin drop.
google Operation Black March.  starts 3-1-2012 spread the word.......

I own my own software company, so copyrights are important to me, however, NOT as important as people's freedom to communicate. ACTA is a sham, it is designed to protect the BIG guy's, maybe if I was a "BIG Guy"in the software game my greed might overpower my judgement and respect for people's rights, thankfully, it does NOT! Support FREEDOM at ALL costs! Besides, when people "steal" my software, its is not like they stole my car. I will still have my software, just not the money from the crook who is likely too cheap to buy it anyway. My loss? Minor and livable...unlike the loss of my individual freedom via ACTA, which I respect more than profit. Big Companies have bought and paid for the US Government and corrupted it beyond recognition, don't let them spread their Corpratism around the world under the guise of "fairness". Come on EU, get a clue and grow some stones!

The problem is copyrights and patents  were suppost to last long enough to recover the investment cost and make a profit. But now they never end and that stops any further develop ment 
Time Warner owns the rights to the happy birthday song so if you sing that at a birthday party and video it then post it on youtube  you'll have a problem.
http://w ww.snopes.com/music/ songs/birthday.asp

reply to LDR, your country was founded in viloence ! A massacre took place so the cowardly brits and zionist familes would feel safe in their plotting! Clearing the land for the hell to come they call order! The 3 most barbaric mass destrction weapons in world history have ALL been used by the USA in it's short history! Biological, chemical and atomic bomb!  Contaminated blankets given to native americans, chemicals used agent orange in Vietnam and Iraq! A bomb in Japan!  A disgrace that you are so ill informed and spread lies, as a cancerous cell for a country loyal to Israel!

That's people power folks!

People power, powered by a free internet... demonstrating exactly why we need to keep the internet free. Keep it up.

I'll admit that i download stuff illegally... but then who doesn't? almost every site online violates some sort of copyright or trademark, or even just use the intellectual property of someone else without permission...  even the news sites, hell even google... look at the google search logo, you know the one they constantly change... oh and if the corporations don't want to deal with piracy i have an awesome suggestion... GO ANALOG! computers are digital, and if everything is analog then, well, who is going to be able to put music on a cassette in this day and age? oh i forgot, they went digital for $$$ as thats what they are all after... most of the time when me or my froends download something illegally its because you can't get it anymore without paying a fortune for second hand as the games are out of production or the company went out of business due to other companies having better marketing or items for sale... all this is, all any anti-piracy law is, is nothing more then the politicians grabbing at the money offered by the corporations and telling everyone else to just bend over and take it. Its time the people of the democratic world woke up and told the politicians to either do what they are paid to do and administrate the countries fairly and for the common people or to retire/quit... in other words its time for people to stop being sheep and start behaving like what we are... living, thinking and for the most part rational human beings

@lolz

 I cannot agree with that. It is not ethical from the side of the people to grab everything for free, they could go to a supermarket and steal chips and cigarrettes and claim that the supermarket should place advertising to make a living from that. Or should I steal your bike or car and tell you to place up an advertisement on your doorgate so that you can make a living out of that ?

Lolz wrote in #13
Me Not Understand,
The same way open source applications get paid - sponsorships, advertising on websites, etc. Actual software sales isnt the only way to make money with your software...

People need to quit focusing on the anti-piracy parts of ACTA and focus on the dangerous aspects like attacking Generic Medications and the Monsanto Seed takeovers. &nbs p; These two pieces alone affect the entire world!

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE...UNITED WE CAN....THE NEXT STEP IS TO PUT IN JAIL WHO EVER GOT THE SOPA IDEA..!! .... NOW .....!

Me Not Understand,
The same way open source applications get paid - sponsorships, advertising on websites, etc. Actual software sales isnt the only way to make money with your software...

I am an anti-establishment if there is one, but I dont understand on what basis people protest on the copyrights of the authors of music, literature, software etc. I mean, I am a software programmer among other things and I break my (read it in one word ) as s  countless hours working to develop an application. How in the hell am I supposed to provide that for free ? who is going to pay for my bread and butter ?