ACTA - Stay No or it is too Late.

ACTA, if it were to come into effect, this blog can be taken down any minute as you are reading it.
Your favorite youtube videos, your family's self-made video with your favorite artist's BGM in the background might send you to jail.

So first, let's take a look at this interesting video if you have no idea what is ACTA.
Just treat it like a puppet show, but better, with VOICE!

It is not something in the distant future, not something that only Europeans should care about.
"Wow, this is bad. But hey, this is not happening in the States yet. It is in Europe which is all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Who cares about that. I just done my part against SOPA, and I think I will not care about this until it reaches the State."

If you have this mind set, congratulation, you are exactly the mind that the governments have being trying to "farm" and "grow".

First of all, SOPA, if it weren't for people who noticed it about half a year ago and started to promote the awareness of it ever since then, it could have just passed and then you will probably never get a chance to "notice" it. It was really unbelievable of how many people, senators, or representatives do not know about the seriousness of SOPA and PIPA, until the big Censor day a couple weeks ago.

The Senators are just acting upon the slogan of protecting copyright properties of the Hollywood Lobbyists and failed to see the potential of censoring freedom on the internet. It was not until they realize that if they continue on this path, they will be likely to loose the votes for re-election then they turn the tides.

Secondly, it is not something that is far far away. Taken the example of Megaupload in the last few weeks. It was an action taken on by the FBI against a company whose owner is in Australia and without the support of SOPA or anything. Right now Megaupload is being accused serving as a site purposely for copyright contents but they have lots of evidence to refute that accusation. If SOPA came into effect and Megaupload were to win the lawsuit, the government would be freed of the responsibility of any compensation whatsoever.

Also, just days after Megauplod was forcibly shut down by the FBI, all the major free file hosting websites on the internet, just as Filesonic, RapidShare, Upload King, 4Shared, Hot File, and Deposit File are terminating and freezing their service. Even though there is a high chance that Megaupload is innocent and would come back to live, these sites were all afraid to be the next target of the governments.

Whatever happens on the internet will have similar affects across the board, doesn't matter the regulator is in the States or elsewhere. We often criticize the Great Firewall of China, but why are we building one ourselves?

Please, help raise the awareness of this. It is the least that we can do. We have stopped SOPA, but if we let our guards down now, it will all be in vain.