SOPA/PIPA down but, ACTA is international and a threat to the world's internet freedom.

[ZM90]

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/3649-sopa-and-pipa-shelved-but-is-acta-unstoppable.html

We must constantly be on alert against internet censorship. Contact your Senators and demand more transparency in ACTA.

[Justice wanted]

1. Isn't it amazing how these type of laws seem to aways sneek up at the same time.

[ZM90]

2. Apparently ACTA has been going on since 2007 and we didn't know anything about it.

I am hopeful that by posting information about this that this information will go viral and we can muster a strong enough international movement to put a stop to it.

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. This hits close to home for me.

The patented drugs, which have life or death ramifications.

The resistance to this stuff has a lot of smart people, that's its fundamental asset. We need to propose a model to incentivize R&D that does not create artificial scarcity of discovered cures. (I'm talking about the fact that the cost of life saving meds doesn't reflect production costs, but prior research costs). Same with strong patented agro-genes. The market models being used have failed when they don't maximize benefit globally. Surely, there is a way to frame this...Maybe in terms of stock in each person on earth - that allows maximum profit to coincide with maximum benefits to humanity. WE CAN DO THIS!

[Downwinder]

4. About time to put Intelectual Property on the Tax Rolls.

[limpyhobbler]

5. +1

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. Damn right. We pay for their protection with our freedoms. n/t

[donheld]

7. Why aren't DUers paying more attention to this?