The Operation Black March boycott is supposedly aimed at stopping online piracy by asking opponents of such policies not to purchase media. It is led by Anonymous aims to protest ACTA, SOPA. The boycott is a coordinated effort by various factions of the Internet that have aligned against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect IP Act, Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act and other such measures, and is being headed off by the Anonymous hacktivists.
The “Black March” is the latest protests aimed at allowing people from all over the world to come together and to announce their opposition to ACTA and provisions within the treaty that threaten to limit Internet freedom, impose a new censorship regime.
The flier declares that the message of the boycott as: Copyrighted media won't be allowed while Internet is being censored, then went into a longer discussion of its goals, and how people can participate in the act of civil disobedience:
Why? Due to the continuous campaigns and suits concerning Internet Censorship such as SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and others we MUST take actions against Film, Music, Book and Magazine Companies and other media companies, the flier reads.
How? Don't buy any magazine, newspaper, DON'T download ANY song DON'T watch any movie at the cinema, DON'T buy ANY DVD or videogame and DON'T buy any book.
The flier is black with stark white writing, and it features a watermark bearing an Anonymous insignia in the bottom-right corner.
With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists, the site reads. The only way to hit their profit margins. This means do not buy a single record, DVD, videogame, a single book or magazine in the stores. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy.
The protests have had varying degrees of success. In January a coordinated anti-SOPA internet blackout led to the bill being shelved last week by the U.S. Congress.
And on Feb. 11, the world is coming together to protest ACTA in cities from New York to Budapest to Melbourne.
ACTA would set up an international legal framework to deal with issues of counterfeiting, piracy and other crimes. Instead of dealing with national laws regarding these issues, these nations would be able to adjudicate alleged crimes in a new governing body that would exist outside of the purview of the United Nations and other international institutions.
The opponents are worrying that ACTA would create a new regime of Internet censorship and criminalization of commonplace online activities so that is why they have taken to the streets and the Web to voice their concerns, which appear to be gaining some traction with international leaders tasked with negotiating the treaty, which its supporters hope to have in place by June.
The Operation Black March boycott is going to be another source of pressure on the world's leaders to rethink their approach the Internet, and its impacts will be interesting to follow as its full scope is realized.
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The “Black March” is the latest protests aimed at allowing people from all over the world to come together and to announce their opposition to ACTA and provisions within the treaty that threaten to limit Internet freedom, impose a new censorship regime.
The flier declares that the message of the boycott as: Copyrighted media won't be allowed while Internet is being censored, then went into a longer discussion of its goals, and how people can participate in the act of civil disobedience:
Why? Due to the continuous campaigns and suits concerning Internet Censorship such as SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and others we MUST take actions against Film, Music, Book and Magazine Companies and other media companies, the flier reads.
How? Don't buy any magazine, newspaper, DON'T download ANY song DON'T watch any movie at the cinema, DON'T buy ANY DVD or videogame and DON'T buy any book.
The flier is black with stark white writing, and it features a watermark bearing an Anonymous insignia in the bottom-right corner.
With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists, the site reads. The only way to hit their profit margins. This means do not buy a single record, DVD, videogame, a single book or magazine in the stores. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy.
The protests have had varying degrees of success. In January a coordinated anti-SOPA internet blackout led to the bill being shelved last week by the U.S. Congress.
And on Feb. 11, the world is coming together to protest ACTA in cities from New York to Budapest to Melbourne.
ACTA would set up an international legal framework to deal with issues of counterfeiting, piracy and other crimes. Instead of dealing with national laws regarding these issues, these nations would be able to adjudicate alleged crimes in a new governing body that would exist outside of the purview of the United Nations and other international institutions.
The opponents are worrying that ACTA would create a new regime of Internet censorship and criminalization of commonplace online activities so that is why they have taken to the streets and the Web to voice their concerns, which appear to be gaining some traction with international leaders tasked with negotiating the treaty, which its supporters hope to have in place by June.
The Operation Black March boycott is going to be another source of pressure on the world's leaders to rethink their approach the Internet, and its impacts will be interesting to follow as its full scope is realized.
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