Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] ACTA

[Daniel]

In the meantime, let's do something practical. visit the AVAAZ website. http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?fp Patents fall under intellectual property. Small software houses and start-ups are also affected. If this gets as bad as airport security with regards to privacy invasion, even Joe Public will join us in such a campaign. Considering that China already pulled out of it, i don't get the whole point of the US pushing this down the EU's throat. Its already a lost battle. I am moving my servers to AWS in Brazil ... oh wait, I have to pay with Visa and they are American - dammit On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:53 PM, David C. Carachi <david.cara...@gmail.com> wrote: In what way? By enforcing software patents? -----Original Message----- From: mlug-list-boun...@linux.org.mt [mailto:mlug-list-boun...@linux.org.mt] On Behalf Of Warren Camilleri Sent: 30 January 2012 19:53 To: Malta Linux User Group - general list Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] ACTA i know that ramon it also eliminates projects like libreoffice.org, android and such... -- Warren Camilleri Founding Father Mobile: +356 7991 2004 Skype: ossmalta | Twitter: warren_oss Also a member of MLUG, The Document Foundation, Ubuntu Malta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramon Casha" <rca...@gmail.com> To: "MLUG List" <mlug-list@linux.org.mt> Sent: Monday, 30 January, 2012 7:35:19 PM Subject: [LINUX.ORG.MT] ACTA Has anyone taken a close look at ACTA from the perspective of Linux and/or OSS? For instance, with ACTA, DVD playing software in Linux is illegal (because they still rely on decss). Also, according to an analysis by the FSF, ACTA would require that ISPs no longer host free software that can access copyrighted media, and DRM-protected media would not be legally playable with free or open source software. Ramon Casha _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list --

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