SOPA, PIPA, ACTA & SOPA Ireland - Only Thread Please!

the watchman

Has that SOPA Bill in the states been passed?

EDDIE WATERS

No it is dead http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57362675-503544/pipa-sopa-put-on-hold-in-wake-of-protests/

Gman1

the watchman wrote: »

Has that SOPA Bill in the states been passed?

Its dead in the states, but PIPA and ACTA are still inline to be passed.

Also, Sean Sherlock (Minister for State) is bringing in similar SOPA laws to Ireland!
http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/legal-case-against-irish-sopa.html

deckybarr

http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/adrian-weckler-confims-that-irelands.html?m=1

Irelands SOPA could mean an end to Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc.

Please make your voice heard before it is too late

The guy to complain to is Shaun Sherlock http://www.labour.ie/seansherlock

gavmcg92

Can anyone find his personal email? Or his work email?

deckybarr

Yeah it's sean.sherlock@oir.ie

gavmcg92

deckybarr wrote: »

Yeah it's sean.sherlock@oiroireachtas.ie

Thanks. Have emailed him and my 5 local TDs. Will send them another email tomorrow and then the day after that and ..... Well you get the idea

deckybarr

Thanks gavmcg92, can you help get the word out on social networks, youtube etc?

Gman1

deckybarr wrote: »

Thanks gavmcg92, can you help get the word out on social networks, youtube etc?

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/StopSOPAIreland

Twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/NoSOPAIreland

Add and share with everyone!

gavmcg92

deckybarr wrote: »

Thanks gavmcg92, can you help get the word out on social networks, youtube etc?

Have changed my profile picture on Facebook to this



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and have posted a good bit of information for my friends.

deckybarr

A suggestion made by another user on this forum in a different thread was to phone the TD's as this is what halted the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US

You can get sean sherlocks details at www.labour.ie/sherlock

deckybarr

could anybody with any media skills make a short clip that would quickly inform people of the Irish SOPA and link to http://www.boards.ie/out?f=520&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oireachtas.ie%2Fparliament%2Ftdssenators%2Ftds%2F&h=d494e

so that people can get the numbers of their local TD's and complain that they don't want the legislation brought in

gavmcg92

Hey guys... I suggest you register to this tread. It has an email for you to send to your local representatives as well as information from Boards.ie representatives on what Boards.ie are going to do in the near future to try and lobby the government etc.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056524769

deckybarr

Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Youtube and Google are being threatened by the upcoming Irish SOPA legislation.

Here is a letter that you can email your TD's

Quote:
Dear duly elected representative of the peoples of Ireland,

I write to you today to call your attention to a matter of great importance and urgency to our nation. Before the months end, Minister of State for Enterprise Seán Sherlock is to publish an “order” which is understood to allow copyright holders to demand the censorship of Irish citizens access an open and democratic Internet.

The Internet represents the single most important economic, social, and cultural communications tool since mankind spoke his first words. The Internet’s ability to promote the free exchange of artistic expression and encourage the discussion of revolutionary ideas such as democracy makes it to the modern world, what roads were to the Romans. The Internet is the road upon which we and our children and our children’s children will prosper. Any attempt at limiting its efficacy, at censoring the free exchange of ideas and expression should be considered an attack on our liberties and our future prosperity, I hope you’ll agree. Whether you recognise it or not, your constituents certainly do and I am in no doubt that they will make you aware of this fact in the coming days.

The Internet, spurred on by the incredible wealth of human talent on the Island of Ireland, promotes and takes an active role in the development of technologies of global significance. Its potential positive impact on our Island has yet to be fully realised; we are only now beginning to reap the rewards of our earlier labours of investing in resilient and wide spread broadband to the nation and other investments.

Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook, Google, AOL, FourSquare, LinkedIn, PayPal, Zynga, and many more US based companies came out to protest against similar legislation in their country (SOPA/PIPA) which aimed at addressing copyright holders concerns, by censoring the Internet. These companies and those much like them are the future lifeblood of Ireland’s knowledge economy. To believe we can summarily enact legislation that will censor the Internet and not severely detriment our economy and our democratic rights is foolhardy to say the least.

The means by which this legislation is proposed to work will not achieve its intended result of protecting the rights of copyright holders. Infringing sites will still be accessible by even the most minimally technologically literate persons. This legislation serves only to erode our rights and discourage international investment.

If we continue to let our rights be eroded at the whims of corporations, which place pressure on our leaders to create legislation that chips away at our ability to freely express ourselves, we will fade into insignificance on the world stage and we will have squandered the enormous potential that we, as a nation striving for a knowledge economy, have worked so hard to achieve.

On the 11th of January, The European Commission recognised that the Internet “has enormous potential for boosting growth and creating jobs.” and that 20-25% of new jobs could come from growth in this area. Growth which will not be possible if the policies in place are more harmful than they are productive.

I ask, with all due respect, please do not let this legislation pass.

Yours sincerely,

A technologically literate voter

From
http://www.scribd.com/sean_nicholls_...net-Censorship


Here is a list of the email addresses for all the TD's in Ireland. Just cut and paste into the bcc: field in your email client.


gerry.adams@oireachtas.ie,
james.bannon@oireachtas.ie,
sean.barrett@oireachtas.ie,
ceann.comhairle@oireachtas.ie,
tom.barry@oireachtas.ie,
richard.boydbarrett@oireachtas.ie,
pat.breen@oireachtas.ie,
tommy.broughan@oireachtas.ie,
john.browne@oireachtas.ie,
richard.bruton@oireachtas.ie,
joan.burton@oireachtas.ie,
ray.butler@oireachtas.ie,
jerry.buttimer@oireachtas.ie,
catherine.byrne@oireachtas.ie,
eric.byrne@oireachtas.ie,
dara.calleary@oireachtas.ie,
ciaran.cannon@oireachtas.ie,
joe.carey@oireachtas.ie,
paudie.coffey@oireachtas.ie,
aine.collins@oireachtas.ie,
joan.collins@oireachtas.ie,
niall.collins@oireachtas.ie,
michael.colreavy@oireachtas.ie,
michael.conaghan@oireachtas.ie,
sean.conlan@oireachtas.ie,
paulj.connaughton@oireachtas.ie,
ciara.conway@oireachtas.ie,
noel.coonan@oireachtas.ie,
marcella.corcorankennedy@oireachtas.ie,
joe.costello@oireachtas.ie,
simon.coveney@oireachtas.ie,
barry.cowen@oireachtas.ie,
michael.creed@oireachtas.ie,
lucinda.creighton@oireachtas.ie,
sean.crowe@oireachtas.ie,
clare.daly@oireachtas.ie,
jim.daly@oireachtas.ie,
john.deasy@oireachtas.ie,
jimmy.deenihan@oireachtas.ie,
pat.deering@oireachtas.ie,
pearse.doherty@oireachtas.ie,
regina.doherty@oireachtas.ie,
stephen.donnelly@oireachtas.ie,
paschal.donohoe@oireachtas.ie,
timmy.dooley@oireachtas.ie,
robert.dowds@oireachtas.ie,
andrew.doyle@oireachtas.ie,
bernard.durkan@oireachtas.ie,
dessie.ellis@oireachtas.ie,
damien.english@oireachtas.ie,
alan.farrell@oireachtas.ie,
frank.feighan@oireachtas.ie,
anne.ferris@oireachtas.ie,
martin.ferris@oireachtas.ie,
frances.fitzgerald@oireachtas.ie,
peterm.fitzpatrick@oireachtas.ie,
charles.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
lukeming.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
terence.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
sean.fleming@oireachtas.ie,
tom.fleming@oireachtas.ie,
eamon.gilmore@oireachtas.ie,
noel.grealish@oireachtas.ie,
brendan.griffin@oireachtas.ie,
john.halligan@oireachtas.ie,
dominic.hannigan@oireachtas.ie,
noel.harrington@oireachtas.ie,
simon.harris@oireachtas.ie,
brian.hayes@oireachtas.ie,
tom.hayes@oireachtas.ie,
seamus.healy@oireachtas.ie,
michael.healy-rae@oireachtas.ie,
martin.heyden@oireachtas.ie,
joe.higgins@oireachtas.ie,
phil.hogan@oireachtas.ie,
brendan.howlin@oireachtas.ie,
heather.humphreys@oireachtas.ie,
kevin.humphreys@oireachtas.ie,
derek.keating@oireachtas.ie,
colm.keaveney@oireachtas.ie,
paul.kehoe@oireachtas.ie,
bily.kelleher@oireachtas.ie,
alan.kelly@oireachtas.ie,
enda.kenny@oireachtas.ie,
taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie,
sean.kenny@oireachtas.ie,
seamus.kirk@oireachtas.ie,
michael.kitt@oireachtas.ie,
sean.kyne@oireachtas.ie,
anthony.lawlor@oireachtas.ie,
michael.lowry@oireachtas.ie,
ciaran.lynch@oireachtas.ie,
kathleen.lynch@oireachtas.ie,
john.lyons@oireachtas.ie,
padraig.maclochlainn@oireachtas.ie,
eamonn.maloney@oireachtas.ie,
micheal.martin@oireachtas.ie,
peter.mathews@oireachtas.ie,
michael.mccarthy@oireachtas.ie,
charlie.mcconalogue@oireachtas.ie,
marylou.mcdonald@oireachtas.ie,
shane.mcentee@oireachtas.ie,
nicky.mcfadden@oireachtas.ie,
dinny.mcginley@oireachtas.ie,
finian.mcgrath@oireachtas.ie,
mattie.mcgrath@oireachtas.ie,
michael.mcgrath@oireachtas.ie,
john.mcguinness@oireachtas.ie,
joe.mchugh@oireachtas.ie,
sandra.mclellan@oireachtas.ie,
tony.mcloughlin@oireachtas.ie,
michael.mcnamara@oireachtas.ie,
olivia.mitchell@oireachtas.ie,
mary.mitchelloconnor@oireachtas.ie,
michael.moynihan@oireachtas.ie,
michelle.mulherin@oireachtas.ie,
catherine.murphy@oireachtas.ie,
dara.murphy@oireachtas.ie,
eoghan.murphy@oireachtas.ie,
gerald.nash@oireachtas.ie,
denis.naughten@oireachtas.ie,
dan.neville@oireachtas.ie,
derek.nolan@oireachtas.ie,
michael.noonan@oireachtas.ie,
patrick.nulty@oireachtas.ie,
caoimhghin.ocaolain@oireachtas.ie,
eamon.ocuiv@oireachtas.ie,
sean.ofearghail@oireachtas.ie,
aodhan.oriordain@oireachtas.ie,
aengus.osnodaigh@oireachtas.ie,
jonathan.obrien@oireachtas.ie,
willie.odea@oireachtas.ie,
kieran.odonnell@oireachtas.ie,
patrick.odonovan@oireachtas.ie,
fergus.odowd@oireachtas.ie,
john.omahony@oireachtas.ie,
joe.oreilly@oireachtas.ie,
jan.osullivan@oireachtas.ie,
maureen.osullivan@oireachtas.ie,
willie.penrose@oireachtas.ie,
john.perry@oireachtas.ie,
ann.phelan@oireachtas.ie,
johnpaul.phelan@oireachtas.ie,
thomas.pringle@oireachtas.ie,
ruairi.quinn@oireachtas.ie,
pat.rabbitte@oireachtas.ie,
james.reilly@oireachtas.ie,
michael.ring@oireachtas.ie,
shane.ross@oireachtas.ie,
brendan.ryan@oireachtas.ie,
alan.shatter@oireachtas.ie,
sean.sherlock@oireachtas.ie,
roisin.shorthall@oireachtas.ie,
brendan.smith@oireachtas.ie,
arthur.spring@oireachtas.ie,
emmet.stagg@oireachtas.ie,
brian.stanley@oireachtas.ie,
david.stanton@oireachtas.ie,
billy.timmis@oireachtas.ie,
peadar.toibin@oireachtas.ie,
robert.troy@oireachtas.ie,
joanna.tuffy@oireachtas.ie,
liam.twomey@oireachtas.ie,
leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie,
jack.wall@oireachtas.ie,
mick.wallace@oireachtas.ie,
brian.walsh@oireachtas.ie,
alex.white@oireachtas.ie,


Also sign the petition at
http://stopsopaireland.com/

Start following the twitter account
https://twitter.com/#!/NoSOPAIreland

And the facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/StopSOPAIreland


And please get the word out to as many people as possible

martin g

This is the new SOPA/ PIPA it seems... Somebody is really trying to push through these bills and have to be stopped !


http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1068473-ACTA-PCIPA-Help-stop-these-monstrous-bills!-*Smells-like-sopa*


http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3210274/PCIPA+and+ACTA/

martin g

http://stopsopaireland.com/

sign the petition !!!

NeVeR

NeVeR !!! lol.. what d!cks

meoklmrk91

Ladies and Gents get your popcorn and sit back and wait for the fun to begin, it would seem that SOPA Ireland had caught the attention on Anonymous....

gavmcg92

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Ladies and Gents get your popcorn and sit back and wait for the fun to begin, it would seem that SOPA Ireland had caught the attention on Anonymous....

YourAnonNews Anonymous



Ireland has angered the hive, we will be reporting all attacks through this account | #OpIreland #OpMegaUpload

Nothing more pleasing than this!

deckybarr

Maybe then the media will cover it.

maknak

Well Poland have signed ACTA today at 3:00am (Poland time) in Tokio. Ratification of this document will be within next few months. This will create massive demonstrations in my country (presume more what is now). I'm really surprised that there are no demonstrations, announcements, public debates in Ireland about ACTA. No fight, no anything, only "small" petition. Yesterday I have asked people at gym what they think about ACTA and..... no one knew what ACTA is. What about media, radio, newspapers and e.g. boards.ie ??? Where are the blackouts. If ACTA will be put in place and active - forums like boards.ie will be gone. For people who's not aware e.g I Myself can finish off this forum. How? Enough will be if I'll point that someone is spreading un-authorised content like pictures, text or what ever. No solid proof needed and Forum can be suspended of closed, same goes to facebook, even google (YES that is right google). Although this scenario is hard to made but is possible. I think this in in interests of this forum to show people what ACTA really is if media and radio aren't doing enough. I'm sick watching how governments are destroying peoples minds. Year 1984 is near.

the watchman

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Nothing more pleasing than this!

I don't do Twitter or facebook.
Anywhere else I can follow? why not here.

maknak

Yeah ..... why not here.
I did more researches.
At work.....Nothing
At friends work..... Nothing
At AIT........ nothing
At RTE ......... nothing
other forums ...... trace .

It is really sad.
I came here 7 years ago and i'm sicking tired of watching how this beautiful country is rolls down trough greediness and lies.... to the bottom.
I can say that or media are compromised / controlled or just there is no money interests in that story.
Sad, because ACTA is not about internet only, its about every aspect of copyright.

the watchman

This might be a good explanation of ACTA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

maknak

The problem is that there is no good explanation of ACTA. Problem is that ACTA allows to very, very wide interpretation - this is why we have an issue. Normal things like internet usage can be problematic too , due to wrong interpretation.

gavmcg92

the watchman wrote: »

I don't do Twitter or facebook.
Anywhere else I can follow? why not here.

You don't need to have a twitter account to see what anonymous are up to. Just type #OpIreland in the twitter search bar and you can see all that is happening!

Here's a few new ones http://rihannaonline.net/ , davidguetta.co

maknak wrote: »

Yeah ..... why not here.

It's the way Irish people are maknak. We're a small country. Everyone knows everyone.

Look at the bailouts for example, the greeks took to the street, we sat back and grumbled.

The banks and the bankers, NewYork started a global movement, we called occupy damestreet a caravan site for hippys!

Irish people don't do protest. Don't get me wrong we will complain until the cows come home ... but take to the streets? Doesn't happen here!

The closet we got to it was when the OAP's medical cards were taken away and when the students marched for their right to an affordable education.

maknak

I noticed that - there is nothing to shame about it. This threat will be global ( if it isn't) and if all of us will show that government elected by citizens in "democracy" way give us that sort of bonus...... something is wrong. If law hits 75% of generation it means that there is something with law not with people.

Euripides_

the watchman wrote: »

I don't do Twitter or facebook.
Anywhere else I can follow? why not here.

neither do I, but I just joined Twitter,
I think some things are important enough
to be updated on every few minutes!!!

maknak

End of the day and nothing in radio about ACTA. Till 1st close-down then will be laud , but then it'll be too late.

gavmcg92

I think it might be time for anonymous to step in again and force the media to cover it by DDoS rte, while stating the reason for the attack is the absence of ACTA in the news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0AurDVrIgw

maknak

Blackout.... too late, but there will be another time, during ratify process then everyone must stan up because we will have 2nd China in EU.