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I dunno, the fact they can stage massive DDoS attacks on companies like PayPal and get away with it is kind of cool.
Because the opposition of ACTA is based entirely around the point "piracy is good!"
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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]
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Well lets just all assume I meant the right to pirate(I didn't), and ignore the part where companies can invade your privacy.
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Do either of you two know how they bust pirates? There are two known methods. Firstly your ISP uses a method called 'deep packet inspection' basically your ISP has a script which scans through every thing you download looking for certain 'black listed' things. If they find one they'll probably send you a threatening letter.
Hardly an invasion of privacy since if your doing nothing wrong everything will pass unnoticed.
Secondly, and more easily, Big companies will hire people to attempt to download from an illegal torrent of their product. If you know how torrents work you know you are not downloading form the pirate bays server but rather many other people who have downloaded the torrent previously. So all these inspection people have to do is record the IP addresses of those who are illegally uploading the company’s software.
This is definitely not an invasion of privacy. Your IP will only be recorded if you are using these torrents and anyway anyone could know it.
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Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal started the shit when they decided they wouldn't let people donate money to an organization that has not committed any crimes, for a fucking political reason. It was very clear that the government(US or otherwise) pressured the companies into doing this, attempting to censor it. The DDOS were some of the public's' response to this. What else were they to do? Write angry letters? It got the media's attention, and that was probably enough. None of this would have happened if the companies hadn't tried to block aid to Wikileaks.
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Paypal and Mastercard are allowed to provide their services to whomever they want. Anonymous is just a group of dickheads who hurt the many thousands of users.
If does something you don’t like you don't go and egg there house (I probably would but that doesn’t make it the right thing to do).
