Sadly the internet community has already spent all their protest capital on the SOPA blackout. ACTA will be lucky to be a footnote in the mainstream news.
Maybe in US, not elsewhere. In Poland, we already had some nice anti-ACTA protests on 24-26 of January, pushing our govt into panic mode, and if word spreads we will kick butts again on Feb 11.
Yep, but I have actually been to the friday protest in Warsaw, and I must admin that attendance was poor and consisted mostly of youngsters who don't really get what they are protesting against (still kudos for caring enough to get out of home at -15'C, current weather doesn't help, really).
ACTA does not do most of the things they think it does. It's generally a good idea before protesting something to actually understand it, or you end up looking silly.
Some of the worst aspects of the previous draft of the ACTA agreement, such as a provision requiring ISPs to adopt a Three Strikes Law,[3] were removed from the U.S. Trade Representative’s final version of the instrument released in May 2011. ACTA suffocates collaborative creativity and innovation, and less explicitly, but just as gravely threatens free speech through provisions that may lead to Internet access restrictions for the “sake” of combating “imminent violation” of intellectual property laws. Worst of all, the secrecy of the negotiations sets a dangerous precedent for future international agreements, in creating powerful trade agreements that both skirt existing international discussions on intellectual property and allow it to go through with little or no input from civil society organizations or the public.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 24.8 ms ] threadHere's some information on what it actually does and does not do: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awa...
Some of the worst aspects of the previous draft of the ACTA agreement, such as a provision requiring ISPs to adopt a Three Strikes Law,[3] were removed from the U.S. Trade Representative’s final version of the instrument released in May 2011. ACTA suffocates collaborative creativity and innovation, and less explicitly, but just as gravely threatens free speech through provisions that may lead to Internet access restrictions for the “sake” of combating “imminent violation” of intellectual property laws. Worst of all, the secrecy of the negotiations sets a dangerous precedent for future international agreements, in creating powerful trade agreements that both skirt existing international discussions on intellectual property and allow it to go through with little or no input from civil society organizations or the public.
From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-developmen...