Have you heard of ACTA if not you should?

ACTA or Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is an international agreement targeting intellectual property piracy. Sounds like a good thing right but there is so much more to this. It would require ISP and individual websites to monitor and prosecute copyright infringement. ACTA's is bigger than SOPA or PIPA its written to stop the spread and counterfeit or pirated goods or sites with links to pirated products or material. What that means is any website with copyright or pirated material or links would be outlawed. This is the beginning of government control and censorship of the internet and quite alarming to me.

I have included some info below on ACTA and in the future will be expanding on the current status and dangers.



Copy of the actual ACTA agreement.
Consolidated Text Copy of the ACTA Agreement


Very informative article including a 43 minute video including Congressman Darryl Issa at the World Econimic Forum 2012
Mashable: ACTA is more Dangerous than SOPA 


Background information on ACTA
22 Countries in the EU and the US have already signed ACTA

TheRealMcMex Will Go Dark January 18th from 8am to 8pm

In support of stopping the pending legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). The RealMcMexican blog will be participating in the in the blackout started by Reddit http://www.reddit.com/tb/obg8v

Beginning Wednesday January 18th from 8am through 8pm we will be offline just providing information links on SOPA and PIPA.

Below is a list of confirmed sites participating in Blackout Protesting SOPA

Sites Participating

For additional information:

Additional Information here 


So my question is what is your stance on SOPA and PIPA and if you are against them what are you doing?

-McMex

XDA-Developers Going Dark January 18th

Apparently the folks over at XDA-Developers are serious about stopping SOPA and PIPA and will go dark Wednesday the 18th not only to show support but also to motivate members to support the STOP both the SOPA and PIPA movements. For more information here is a direct link to XDA


XDA Link