[Manco]

^ This. Nothing about Anonymous is cool. Nothing.

I dunno, the fact they can stage massive DDoS attacks on companies like PayPal and get away with it is kind of cool.

Fuck off. I hate it when people think they have a god-given right to to steal intellectual property on the basis that the owner is wealthy.

The fact remains it's not your personal right to be able to "share" unlicensed copywrited material.

Because the opposition of ACTA is based entirely around the point "piracy is good!"

Oh wait

An open letter signed by many organizations, including Consumers International, EDRi (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ASIC (French trade association for web 2.0 companies), and the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), states that "the current draft of ACTA would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy."[58] The Free Software Foundation argues that ACTA will create a culture of surveillance and suspicion.[59] Aaron Shaw, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, argues that "ACTA would create unduly harsh legal standards that do not reflect contemporary principles of democratic government, free market exchange, or civil liberties. Even though the precise terms of ACTA remain undecided, the negotiants' preliminary documents reveal many troubling aspects of the proposed agreement" such as removing "legal safeguards that protect Internet Service Providers from liability for the actions of their subscribers" in effect giving ISPs no option but to comply with privacy invasions. Shaw further says that "[ACTA] would also facilitate privacy violations by trademark and copyright holders against private citizens suspected of infringement activities without any sort of legal due process".[60]