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Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2012, 10:18 +0100 schrieb mark francombe: > Just to be clear.. I dont know too much about this issue, but is ACTA > the UKs version of SOPA? Seems like it?, or Is it Euro-wide... ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is worldwide and, unlike SOPA not restricted to online piracy. One consequence in the "real world" would be huge restrictions in trading medicine, which is not copy-protected in some states e.g. Mexico and India, but can't be shipped via US waters because of ACTA. Consequences will be fatal limitations in health treatment in countries depending on cheap medicine. A friend of mine did a nice video (in German, but I will try to get it subtitled) to describe consequences for authors and artists: http://www.137b.org/?p=584 Another problem is, that the text is not discussed openly, but it has been leaked several times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#Consolidated_text_.E2.80.94_March_2010 > Although theres much to be said for the European Community, it does > put many countries into a bag, that starts to remove normal everyday > freedoms, like the US has trouble with. In Norway we are not members > of the EU, so Im not sure what it means to us, although in practice we > agree to abide by everything they do. Its just we have a special issue > with having half our country in the arctic circle, we provide > financial incentives for inhabitants, that the EU doesnt allow, plus > we have alot of oil, and we dont wanna share that do we? > > > M > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Louie Angulo > <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: > now i know why i can't see most of the videos sent to me from > abroad,sad and scary > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhIktkK78s&feature=share > > > > i just saw the movie "in time" not too far fetched really... > -- > www.luis-angulo.com > > > > > -- > Mark Francombe > www.markfrancombe.com > www.ordoabkhao.com > http://vimeo.com/user825094 > http://www.looop.no > twitter @markfrancombe > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24478662@N00/ >