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.

Link

[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.