Because of everything, the way it was signed (first by not telling anybody
interested about it, enforced by big companies, never consulted with
anybody representing either internet providers or users or smaller
companies, anything, just 'the big rich ones'), the fact it was a lie from
the beginning, that we weren't the last to sign, then that nobody cared if
there are protests or not, because they just signed not caring it harms
even basic human laws and it's against EU law.
Because generally watching for example american tv series, japanese comic
books for free in original lang was legal in poland until it was bought by
polish company/television and translated, now it won't be legal, and young
people are usually addicted to tv series and watching them 5 mins after
they have tv premiere in usa (but it's not a main and most important
reason, just one of similar).
It's not only about internet, it's about medicines that are extremely
expensive, especially for old and/or very sick people here, so they were
always made such medicines that have same things inside and working in same
way, but different name and brand and 10 times less expensive - now it's
illegal, same with all the parts and fillings of things that don't need to
be original, printer's ink, car parts, anything, can be either original or
none, so both companies that were always producing such things will have
problems now, and people using it, because it would make everything not
exist, because they punish websites for letting users put on them anything
illegal, so controlling users or stopping existing, because it doesn't
protect 'little' producers, like graphic designers, photographers,
programmers doing something own - so it's not about anti-piracy or using
not own things, it's about letting big companies that have money, threathen
people and blackmail them ("you seem to have downloaded something.mp3 that
wasn't yours, pay 1mio$ or you wll have serious problems, we have all your
data from your isp") - bypassing court, only assuming someone really did
this thing.
*By Paulina, a Polish Computer Science student from Warsaw. Part of a
longer conversation on ACTA, the Internet and crowded places.*
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full article here:
http://www.studentsforfreeculture.eu/blog/2012/02/why-students-protest-acta/
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