shadowkat | U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA and well the State of the Union Address

[Well I signed the petition for whatever good it will do. Broad copyright infringement laws...worry me. It will cost us millions to put into effect and could cost millions for internet providers and jobs, and cut into free speech. I'm sorry but there's a better way to protect intellectual property owners than this. Oh currently watching the State of the Union Address (that is until it flipped off, because I had scheduled Lost Girl and Justified to tape at the same time)...love this comment: "Most of the people watching are thinking nothing is going to be done in Washington this year or next year or the year after. [Pause] Can you blame them? Last year the biggest argument we had that lasted for months was how America was going to pay its bills on time." LOL! (He's not wrong). Also the applause meter is interesting.
He got thunderous applause for a lot of things, but not for that bit and not for: "No longer are going to let Wall Street abide by its own rules and go unrestrained" - the applause for that was decidedly tepid. And we wonder why people no confidence in government?]

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lk737 at U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA

Kosmonaunt on Tumblr just posted this link to the U.S. Petition to stop ACTA. Here is what was said about it:

Americans, this is a link to the White House petition to End ACTA and get the Obama Administration to withdraw its support! This petition needs 25,000 signatures by February 20, 2012! Please, Please take a minute to sign this petition!! I'm sure the more signatures we get, the greater chance the Obama Administration may listen to us.

Please pass this along!!

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Please check it out and Retweet if you're on Twitter (hashtag #ActAgainstACTA). Here is the shortened link for Twitter -- http://t.co/suHDHx8K

Thank you to everyone on my flist and twitter for talking about this and making us so aware! You guys have really filled my flist with so much information! *massive hugs*

[Yawn, not about the address, I'm just tired. As an aside about all this copyright law stuff? I am so glad I'm not in that field any longer. Confusing is an understatement. And I thought the DMCA, World Copyright Act and Internet Act of 1999 was a pain. Good times. Or the Napster Case and the Tasini cases were annoying.
Or that...the Sono Bono Act was well irritating. Apparently those were the good old days. Can't say I'm all that surprised...it was only a matter of time, before they started to do something about it. The TV/Film and Publishing industry has been
paranoid about the internet for years now. Heck, the Actors Strike and the Writer's Strikes were mainly about the internet.]