Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions

rrohbeck writes "From eff.org: 'The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe. It is disguised as CETA, the Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement. A comparison of the leaked draft Canada-EU agreement shows the treaty includes a number of the same controversial provisions, specifically concerning criminal enforcement, private enforcement by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and harsh damages.'"

Re:You can't win...

[TrueSatan]

There are many organisations already working on behalf of ordinary people in cases such as this...the summary already has highlighted one such in the most excellent EFF but there are a number of others who are charitable donation funded and the like so negating your belief that huge wealth is needed to have voices on our side in this, and other, conflicts with the corporations who seek to enrich themselves by removal of our freedoms and liberties. I'll offer a small selection of such organisations below: https://www.eff.org/ [eff.org] http://ffii.org/ [ffii.org] http://www.publicknowledge.org/ [publicknowledge.org] http://keionline.org/ [keionline.org] http://infojustice.org/category/trade-agreements/ [infojustice.org] http://www.article19.org/ [article19.org] http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ [openrightsgroup.org] http://www.edri.org/ [edri.org] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ [michaelgeist.ca] The last link is to Professor Michael Geist a prominent a noteworthy intellectual and activist in the field. All the above worked diligently to stop ACTA.

Re:War on drugs

[Yvanhoe]

Accept this.

No. Don't. Organize. lobby. If you can't give time, give money to the applicable non-profit : EFF in US, Quadrature du Net in France.

Our ancestors fought and die for democracy. We have it much easier : we just have to work one or two hours a week to maintain it.

Re:You can't win...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello betterunixthanunix. I see you are not familiar with the Canadian electoral system. Our prime minister, with less than 40% of the popular vote, nonetheless rules with absolute power. Voting doesn't have a lot to do with it.

The problem is to get this out to the people. The media are firmly in the hands of the Content or Copyright Industry. They have no interest in bringing that up. They'll report on the cost of extending pharma patents, but are absolutely numb on copyright militias, and copyright term extensions (for Canadians).

If tens of thousands would hit the streets in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, etc. something might change. But that won't happen.

You can win in Switzerland

[MrSteveSD]

In Switzerland the people can instigate referenda and overturn government decisions. It takes about 100,000 signatures to trigger a referendum on an issue.

Re:So get involved in the primaries and a party.

[codegen]

Did you miss the part about this being in Canada? We don't have primaries, and the next federal election is several years off.