Thank you for showing me this.

To be honest, I've always been on the pirates side. I could give you the good ol' 101 reasons why, but the perspective is my own, and I'm not out to change it for anyone else.

lol

or just run everything through Tor!


Alternately, THIS

Has that received any updates lately?
I can't remember whether the version I looked at was at all stable/usable or not.

We shouldn't let it get to the point where we have to use darknets for everyday things.

I cannot stress this more, learn about ACTA, learn about who and what it will affect, tell your friends and family in a polite and serious fashion, explain to them how it infringes on their rights, and explain to them how if they have a son or daughter who accidentally or intentionally even downloads one song, they could be jailed and sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The point here is to not come across as some radical, not some 'hacker' or pirate, come across as a citizen concerned for his rights, which you should be.

This is important, don't cock it up.

Quite frankly, our lives are at stake.
If we don't do enough, we're going to be stuck with this ♥♥♥♥ for the foreseeable future.

Well this is it, gentlemen. It's do or die. Unfortunately my hands are pretty much tied on that subject (south america etc lol), so I'm counting on you all.

Spread the word. Don't let them take away your privacy and rights.

I'll tell you right now, Youtube, and all the companies that this
will affect across the web aren't going to let their profits go to
nil because of this. Expect the best lawyers from some of the
greatest companies around the world to work on this.

There will be blood before this thing gets passed.

Apparently some people are trying to get this thing pushed through by September's end.

Won't the ISPs have to pay for all the extra monitoring ♥♥♥♥ they'll have to do, and thus be very against it?

They're already fighting against net neutrality, so I'm not sure they'll try to fight this when it's exactly what they want, they'll just block "illegal" websites and propose their own alternatives that they "carefully survey for illegal content". If they're smart that is.

ISP's will, in fact, be very happy if this gets through.


Just imagine the amount of bandwidth they won't have to cover with torrenting and illegal downloads. They already started fighting back, at least here in Portugal, by using quite intense traffic shaping on users who use a lot of p2p, so that, and in their words, they can "keep a minimum quality service".

Heck, my ISP, rogers uses deep packet inspection to throttle everything that look like bittorrent traffic. So, of course, everyone switched to encrypted bittorrent connections. So my ISP throttles everything encrypted, including https. So, my 5mbps connection drops to 25kbps whenever I check my email or wikileaks. Stupid, eh?

Yeah I kinda like being able to do legal things.

I'm reloading that page as fast as I can, Jack.

Is it even legal do to something like this? The internet wasn't created to have people pay for slow ass access and have half the web cut off from them.

Well that's why they're making a treaty. That makes it legal.