ACTA
[What is ACTA?]
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (also known as ACTA) is an agreement between several countries and spear headed by big business to put a stop to all internet piracy by making it a federal crime to pirate anything. As it currently stands piracy is a civil matter not a criminal matter and they have come up ways to get control of pirating including holding IP providers responsible for the content uploaded and download by customers, so if we pirate the IP company gets busted for it. This forces IP companies to monitor every bit of data its customers send and receive
Furthermore, these select governments are attempting to legalize the random search, copying, and seizure of computers and other devices that hold digital data when a person brings them to an airport. They want to take our laptops with out provocation or reason to search them, and copy your entire hard drive in an attempt to find pirated material.
The ACTA raises significant concerns for consumer privacy, civil liberties, innovation, the free flow of information on the Internet, commerce, and developing countries' ability to choose policy options that best suit them.
Doesn't the Constitution say a warrant is needed to search my computer?
It does! But because ACTA is a treaty, it circumvents the Constitution and takes away our rights!
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to monitor what you do online and report to the government anything that is seen as suspicious. How are they going to pay for this? They aren't; instead they will raise our Internet bills.
tl;dr rich douchebags around the world are going to take our right to internet privacy and control our browsing, taking money from us in the process, via an international treaty
-It allows them to censor the internet.
-It allows them to search your iPods and computers randomly without giving a reason.
-It allows them to confiscate your iPods and computers without giving a reason
-It allows them to monitor what you do online
-It allows them to block websites deemed "unacceptable", without limit
-It will ban p2p technology, like uTorrent
-It will allow ISPs to PERMANENTLY ban you from using the internet, without a trial.
-It will allow arrests based on the content you search.
-In a nutshell, they're basically taking your freedom and raping it in the ass.
This will be affecting most places.
Myself this is going to destroy communities, and the internet itself.