[Event] Public meeting on copyright reform.

There's a public meeting tomorrow, you have to register on the link below.  It sounds interesting.

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ECJ Scarlet vs SABAM: “General monitoring obligation for ISPs is not compatible with EU law”

Anther interesting ECJ judgement. 

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[Book] Cory Doctorow's CONTENT: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future

Some weekend reading, Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author and copyright activist.  This book is a selection of his essays and talks on copyright, it's a bit out of date, but it gets the argument for fare copyright law down very well.
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[event] ICAA Meeting to Discuss and Organise how we can take down ACTA

The Internet is Not For Sale- The Alternative to Corporate DominationMeeting on what ACTA means for our lives and discussion on where the movement to fight it should go from here. 

This Friday, 6pm Wynns Hotel
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[news] EU Court Bans Anti-Piracy Filters On Hosting Services

A huge blow to ACTA

In a legal battle between music rights group SABAM and social networking site Netlog, the European Court of Justice delivered an unprecedented ruling today.

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[news] Dutch Parliament Rejects ACTA On Human Rights Violations

The controversial ACTA treaty is quickly losing support in Europe.

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[oppinion] Copyright law should help rather than hinder Ireland

Karlin Lillington writes a column arguing for sensible copyright law.  This is a great introduction to the other side of the copyright debate.
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Cables deliver: How the U.S. Government pressured Spain into passing their own SOPA-style law, the Side Law:

Cables deliver: How the U.S. Government threatened Spain into passing their own SOPA-style law, the Sinde law.

Article on: guardian.co.uk
Article on: torrentfreak.com

[video] 28c3: The coming war on general computation

A bit of background on why we have things like DRM(digital locks) and ACTA.

[Oppinion] Missing the point of piracy protesters

In a piece for the Irish Times, Karlin Lillington warns TDs of the dangers of disregarding the opinions of young people.

The right direction for e-Books

ACTA will make breaking digital locks illegal, so moving books from one device to another will be a crime.  This piece argues for the end to DRM in e-Books:  Link

European Parliament rapporteur quits in ACTA protest

From the BBC:  Link

BitTorrent Piracy Doesn’t Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds

A new academic paper by researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College has examined the link between BitTorrent downloads and box office returns.

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[Video] Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO, and the Global Copyfight

This video is nearly an hour long, but it covers a lot of the background about copyright, WIPO and where ACTA came from.  If you have the time it's worth watching.

Welcome

The purpose of this blog is to provide a place to learn about and discus the Anti-Counterfitting Trade Agreement.