As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet

Posted on January 24, 2012 by maxkeiser| 12 Comments
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12 Responses to As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet

  1. SAO | January 24, 2012 at 7:21 pm |

    The attacks are constant on all fronts. Max, thank you for making this site available and all the hard work you put into it.

  2. Lynne | January 24, 2012 at 8:11 pm |

    This is tyranny. I always thought ACTA sounded like another attack and there’s also something called OPEN. As for the seeds, it’s already difficult to buy heritage seeds (the ones where the seeds can be collected for the following year) in the UK. I did a bit of research on the Internet and it seems that heritage seed vendors were driven out of business following draconian laws introduced in the seventies which required seed vendors to spend thousands of pounds on seed testing. As a result, vendors of heritage seeds went out of business and the only thing which saved these seeds from extinction in the UK was the introduction of ‘seed clubs’ to circumvent the law. There has to be ingenuity when you’re fighting the New World Order. But as someone trying to become self sufficient, I can tell you that I am most worried about the effect of the chemtrails on my endeavours. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Monsanto is developing aluminium resistant seeds.

  3. donnydave | January 24, 2012 at 8:11 pm |

    Putting patents on food and animals…. WTF

    Reminds me of the film Spaceballs where they had a patent on Oxygen >.<
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U

  4. Palantír | January 24, 2012 at 8:45 pm |

    I’m glad maxkeiser.com site is finally catching up with ACTA and set a spotlight on it, about time.
    Maybe in a year or two maxkeiser.com will also catch up to EU’s INDECT project which aims at further surveillance and control over the internet.
    Using software (autonomous agents) to monitor virtual spaces such as discussion forums in the Internet or social networks, search engines, UseNet, blogs, P2P networks and individual computer systems.
    Also using advanced computer linguistic algorithms which are able to bind relations between persons and contexts of conversations into the analysis and interpretations of messages (for example in chats).

  5. Catfish | January 24, 2012 at 9:25 pm |

    Interesting take on copyright and content:
    http://questioncopyright.org/understanding_free_content

  7. TopCat | January 24, 2012 at 10:28 pm |

    Look at my right hand…not my left.
    Translation:
    React only to the symptoms…but not to their causes.

  8. Palantír | January 24, 2012 at 10:35 pm |

    ACTA Explained – Spread the Word | by Anonymous
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c1_1327433447

    @Vonda Bra – Thanks for that link. So the sanctions get put into place to slow the eagerness of Israel and US to bomb Iran . . . The EU is doing this to prevent a war… Well, that was a twist to the story.
    But then again, remember this story:
    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security.html
    http://www.eutimes.net/2011/12/china-joins-russia-orders-military-to-prepare-for-world-war-iii/
    The EU must surely not want that to happen…

    “But the Iranian leadership has failed to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear exclusively programs.” – The word international (Of, relating to, or involving two or more nations, thefreedictionary) always sounds like it means the whole world, but in reality it is a few nations that masquerades and acts as the whole world.

  10. Vonda Bra | January 25, 2012 at 12:28 am |

    @ Palantir
    —So the sanctions get put into place to slow the eagerness of Israel and US to bomb Iran . . . The EU is doing this to prevent a war… Well, that was a twist to the story.—-

    well, that at least is what the say !!!! they SAY so …. do you still trust in what they say??
    I don´t !!! .. think for yourself … is that credible ???
    they always sell the greatest shit, with a “humanitarian or well inteded” LIE !!!
    EU-oligarchs are just marionettes obeying to US/financial terrorists demand!!!!

    VonLove

  11. Vonda Bra | January 25, 2012 at 1:04 am |

    @ Palantir

    —-russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security—
    Russia said the same thing referring to Syria, now they are backing off !!!

    —-china-joins-russia-orders-military-to-prepare-for-world-war-iii—-

    thats what you call saber rattling!
    people must be kept in FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!

    —The EU must surely not want that to happen…—-
    they are part of the game and do as they are told, just like the teleprompter reading
    surrogate of a president.
    always remember the words of Jean Claude Juncker – PM of Luxembourg:

    “We decide on something, and then we put it out and wait a while to see if anything happens. And then, if there isn’t any big outcry or revolt, because most people don’t understand what’s been decided, we keep on going, step by step, until there’s no turning back” (Der Spiegel, 52/1999).”

    ;-)

    VonLove

    “But the Iranian leadership has failed to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear exclusively programs.” – The word international (Of, relating to, or involving two or more nations, thefreedictionary) always sounds like it means the whole world, but in reality it is a few nations that masquerades and acts as the whole world.

  12. Vonda Bra | January 25, 2012 at 1:10 am |

    @ Palantir
    sorry, I forgot to post this:

    —-“But the Iranian leadership has failed to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear exclusively programs.”—-

    the iranian leadership has failed to restore confidence … ???

    how about the failure of Isreal to restore, or even have an audit!!!, on its 300-400
    nuclear weapons ….. and its “peaceful” nature ???

    WTF ??? :D
    its all chimera!!!!! ….. propanganda!

    VonLove