[FC-discuss] Why students protest ACTA?
andrea fassina
Because of everything, the way it was signed (first by not telling anybody interested about it, enforced by big companies, never consulted with anybody representing either internet providers or users or smaller companies, anything, just 'the big rich ones'), the fact it was a lie from the beginning, that we weren't the last to sign, then that nobody cared if there are protests or not, because they just signed not caring it harms even basic human laws and it's against EU law.
Because generally watching for example american tv series, japanese comic books for free in original lang was legal in poland until it was bought by polish company/television and translated, now it won't be legal, and young people are usually addicted to tv series and watching them 5 mins after they have tv premiere in usa (but it's not a main and most important reason, just one of similar).
It's not only about internet, it's about medicines that are extremely expensive, especially for old and/or very sick people here, so they were always made such medicines that have same things inside and working in same way, but different name and brand and 10 times less expensive - now it's illegal, same with all the parts and fillings of things that don't need to be original, printer's ink, car parts, anything, can be either original or none, so both companies that were always producing such things will have problems now, and people using it, because it would make everything not exist, because they punish websites for letting users put on them anything illegal, so controlling users or stopping existing, because it doesn't protect 'little' producers, like graphic designers, photographers, programmers doing something own - so it's not about anti-piracy or using not own things, it's about letting big companies that have money, threathen people and blackmail them ("you seem to have downloaded something.mp3 that wasn't yours, pay 1mio$ or you wll have serious problems, we have all your data from your isp") - bypassing court, only assuming someone really did this thing.
By Paulina, a Polish Computer Science student from Warsaw. Part of a longer conversation on ACTA, the Internet and crowded places.
full article here: http://www.studentsforfreeculture.eu/blog/2012/02/why-students-protest-acta/
Karl Fogel
>Because of everything, the way it was signed (first by not telling
>doing something own - so it's not about anti-piracy or using not own
>things, it's about letting big companies that have money, threathen
>people and blackmail them ("you seem to have downloaded something.mp3
>that wasn't yours, pay 1mio$ or you wll have serious problems, we have
>all your data from your isp") - bypassing court, only assuming someone
>really did this thing.
>
>By Paulina, a Polish Computer Science student from Warsaw. Part of a
>longer conversation on ACTA, the Internet and crowded places.
>
>full article here:
> http://www.studentsforfreeculture.eu/blog/2012/02/why-students-protest-
>acta/
Anyone here have an email address for Paula (the Polish computer science
student)? Or just pass along this, which might be of interest:
http://questioncopyright.org/promise/pl
"Zapowiedź świata post-copyright"
(studentsforfreeculture.eu requires an account to leave comments, but
there's no open registration afaict).
-K
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