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01-24-2012, 02:02 AM
The net is dawning it's darkest hours as the bills stack up behind each other to declare war against our #1 power of speech. The internet is the fine tread that separates freedom from control on our planet today, and now a near unstoppable force threatens to dominate it.

Many felt the battle was over after many congressmen swiftly pulled out in support of SOPA when some major websites protested (sites like Google and Wikipedia), thinking SOPA and PIPA was defeated, when in fact the bills were simply shelved for further revision. But the bills and acts to "fight piracy" keep coming adding more threats of internet censorship.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement or ACTA is a secret bill which is in negotiation between 39 different countries (including the US) to end counterfeiting world wide. The dissensions made will implement and enforce of new laws fighting product counterfeiting, piracy and even generic knockoffs. This will give companies the power to ban products, decide what medications you receive, allows service providers to make choices about what you do online and even could hold you criminally responsible for even linking to a site with copyrighted material. ACTA will censor the content on the net, and attack file sharing networks and monitor all activity essentially destroying the most popular form of sharing information. Learn more about ACTA Here (http://www.examiner.com/cannabis-culture-in-phoenix/world-war-internet-2012) and Here (http://www.examiner.com/cannabis-culture-in-phoenix/world-war-internet-2012).

The issue is piracy, and the federal government has taken some sudden and surprising actions to stop it. Friday the popular MegaUpload site was removed by the Justice Department and it's site founder Kim Schmitz was indicted. The FBI also ceased some of Schmitz's assets. Megaupload was allegedly responsible for criminal levels of piracy making practice of paying users for uploading copyrighted material. The site was shut down Friday leaving paid customers out of their service, and their money.

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