The European ACTA revolt draws large number of protesters

While here in North America everyone is still slapping each other on the back over the slap down that both SOPA and PIPA got in Congress the reality is that the over intent behind what those two ... continue

Did Obama break constitutional law by signing the ACTA treaty?

Here at The Inquisitr we have been covering the whole SOPA, PIPA, and the Blackout of the Web but even before those two extremely flawed bills surfaced we were covering the international treaty commonly referred to by ... continue

ACTA Protests In Full Force As Websites Go Dark And Citizens Take To The Streets

The streets of Warsaw were flooded with protesters on Tuesday as Poland's leaders voiced their support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement better known as ACTA. The international copyright treaty has been called by some groups worse then SOPA and ... continue

Never mind worrying about the Ides of March because Black March is coming

Now that all the back slapping and virtual high-five'ing over making Congress backtrack on SOPA and PIPA is over with one has to wonder what is next because if you think that this is the end of ... continue

ACTA Worse than SOPA and Classified as National Security by Obama and Bush

  The demise of SOPA and PIPA, as temporary as it may be,  means attention is now turning to ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).  ACTA is a trade agreement that has already been signed by the United States ... continue

Dear President Obama: About this ACTA secrecy thing

Dear President Obama, I am writing this open letter to you in the hopes that you might be able to explain why it is that the United States Government is so actively trying to hide all information regarding ... continue

ACTA: The acronym hardly anyone knows yet should be scared to death of

In light if the FCC loss to Comcast in the courts Fred Wilson wrote an interesting post where he uses the phrase Internet Freedom and how it is an important concept for his company Union Square Ventures ... continue

Calling all movie industry dickwads – time to STFU about piracy killing your business

If there is one thing that 2009 will go down in the history books for it will be regarding two things. The first is the all out assault against piracy around the world by the movie industry ... continue

My only prediction for 2010 and it ain’t pretty

I realize that it is common practice come this time of year for us to all sit back and ruminate over all the wonderful and earthshaking things we have written about in the past year and to ... continue

The usual suspects are threatening to dismantle our Internet

We are coming up to a watershed moment in the existence of the Internet and very few people seem to care. Right now there are two separate events happening that will have a direct impact on both ... continue

Secret ACTA International Copyright Treaty leaked to Wikileaks

A discussion draft of a secret ACTA International copyright treaty has been leaked to Wikileaks. The treaty, between the European Union, United States, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and Japan was agreed upon in 2008, but despite requests across ... continue