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Windows to Russia: Stop ACTA & TPP

February 9, 2012

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Protests Break Out Across Europe Saturday! Join Us to Stop ACTA & TPP!
They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them.
But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP.
If we can’t stop these backroom deals, the internet’s future belongs to SOPA’s backers.
Stop ACTA & TPP: Tell your country’s officials: NEVER use secretive trade agreements to meddle with the Internet. Our freedoms depend on it!

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA’s vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve ‘a commercial scale’ (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like YouTube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior (‘aiding and abetting’ art 2.14.4). Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the ‘ACTA Committee’ to ‘propose amendments to [ACTA]’ without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it’s impossible to know what you’re voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

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Kyle and Sveta Keeton
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Windows to Russia: Stop ACTA & TPP

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