THE SECRET TREATY: ACTA and Its Impact on Access to Medicines "ACTA is part of the enforcement agenda advanced by rich countries outside of multilateral norm-setting institutions. ACTA would impose limits on price-reducing generic competition and jeopardize the free flow of legitimate medicines across borders. These…
A small step forward in fighting against things like SOPA/ACTA. Consider signing it if you're in the US. A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision in a case called Citizens United vs. FEC. The…
Unless the prosecution releases some new evidence, Megaupload is legal despite it's prolific usage to share copyrighted material. It complied with DMCA takedown orders, ergo there is no legal reason to shut it down, let alone arrest it's founders like they're some sort of international spy ring. If you want to close down a…
Another email from a big petition site. "In days, over 1 million of us worldwide signed a petition opposing a scandalous bill that would give the US government the right to shut down any website -- targeting sites like WikiLeaks, YouTube, even Avaaz! President Obama’s team responded, and Avaaz organized a 1 hour meeting…
That video is full of so much bullshit and lies. Only an idiot would pay money for an unauthorized DVD when they could download it themselves for free. The connection to drugs, violent crime, and child labor are completely non-sequitur and without logical basis. Those are just trumped-up lies to appeal to the public's…
You have to look at why he said he would veto it, it would muddy the waters between the military and Department of Justice. If they cleared up that little bit he was fine with signing it. So he was never some big defender of peoples rights. He just wanted them to dot a legal i and cross a judiciary t before he signed.…
It's not about just pulling down the images... They basically have the right to BLOCK all access to your site and give you no reason or way to fix it. Just take it down and block all access if THEY deem it not ok. It was interesting because they were talking about how people in other countries break our laws all the time…
I agree totally. I'm not a rabid "free internet" type of guy who thinks its ok to download anything and everything. I do think piracy eats into our industry and others like it, I don't think its the number one issue we face and no one has really come up with a good plan to combat it other than design around it. I think…
Well here's the thing, I think something needs to be done about all of the illegal drug sites, the pirate sites, the virus sites that do nothing but turn visitors into members of the bot army, and sites that undercut our industry and others like it. I don't think its right that someone can steal your work and pass it…
After watching about 30min of the committee discussion yesterday, the methods they are deciding to write into law to "shut down sites" aren't really shutting down the site you can still get to it they just strip it from the DNS listings. As one committee member put it yesterday "there is a crack house in neighborhood and…