What is ACTA? Where can I find out about ACTA?
The main points are:
- ACTA turns Internet companies (ISPs, service providers) into a private copyright police by forcing to take legal responsibility for what their users do online.
- ACTA brings broad and dangerous criminal sanctions in loosely defined way.
- ACTA bypasses democracy and opens the door to a parallel legislative process, which the European MPs should be particularly angry about.
(Source: www.laqua..)
More information can be found on ACTA here: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
What makes ACTA so controversial here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/056c38bab9bf699e4e_rgm6iyv2t.pdf
You can sign a UK Petition on direct.gov here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20685
This needs 100,000 votes to be considered for House of Commons.
In the mean time, the following places can be contacted:
- INTA committee
- LIBE committee
- DEVE committee
- JURI committee
- ITRE committee
to get the message to European Parliment.