Yep, bigger and meaner and we do nothing about it just because ACTA is in Europe and Newgrunds is in USA, but are all newgrounders only from US ?
Well, was designed in US and Japan, so, is also NG responsibility to react somehow.
For whoever doesn't know what ACTA is, here, have some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counte rfeiting_Trade_Agreement
"the draft agreement would also set up an international agency that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide information about subscribers suspected of copyright infringers without a warrant."
According to a Romanian blogger, there are at least 5 big problems with it:
1 - general monitoring of the activities of Internet users and systematic recording of data.
2 - Internet users can be disconnected by your ISP, based on simple assumptions of rights holders, without trial, without the right to defense.
3 - Criminal penalties for economic "indirect" advantages. What's that indirect economic advantage? A banner exchange?
4 - ACTA was negotiated infringing the basic rules of transparency.
5 - Anyone who would like to start a new business on the Internet, should think of specific or indirect commercial advantage even by illegal use of his works by users/ strangers.
OPINION on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights - by Douwe Korff Professor of International law London Metropolitan University London (UK) & Ian Brown Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford (UK).
Sign petition against ACTA to the EU Parliament on avaaz.org.
If by any chance you are Romanian, you can also sign this petition.
