World Governments invade privacy with ACTA, seizure of laptops and IP monitoring without warrent

Since July 6, 2010

An agreement between several countries and spear headed by big business to put a stop to all internet piracy by making it a federal crime to pirate anything. as it currently stands piracy is a civil matter not a criminal matter and they have come up ways to get control of pirating including holding ISPs responsible for the content uploaded and download by customers so if we pirate the ISP gets busted for it, this forces ISP companies to monitor every bit of data its customers send and receive

further more these select governments are attempting to legalize the random search, copying, and seizure of computers and other devices that hold digital data when a person brings them to an airport. they want to take our laptops with out provocation or reason to copy search them and copy your entire hard drive in an attempt to find pirated material

below are some links with more info, the piratebay link contains more links which are perhaps the most informative

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5425059/ACTA_Agreement_leaked_

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues

http://www.ustr.gov/acta

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/042110-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-draft.html

http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2010-06-29/acta-could-endanger-lives-people-needing-affordable-medicines

http://topnews.us/content/217326-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-treaty-concludes

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/04/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1600747/stop-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/america-catering-to-hollywood/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fight-Against-The-Anti-Counterfeiting-Trade-agreement/135513839811380

more info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrRuuSlCCOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhCs0vPmjVA

the following links appear to be leaked videos of govt official discussing ACTA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPwkgIIorvk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhU-4At1tQo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3HtiSffRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sFnctv_T8

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