How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local shop and take what I want without paying, just like millions do on the internet. I don't care if struggling artists can't feed their families because of piracy. They should be thankfull we take the time to listen to their music - infact they should pay us! I don't care if a young director manages to make a minor hit film with promising sales where he might just cover his costs - only for it to be posted on the piratebay and kill any chance he had of paying the cast, cameras, makeup, lighting and moving forward with new projects. In a similar vein I think my boss shouldn't bother paying me, after all I steal everything so I couldn't hold it against my boss for doing the same. Why should I be paid for my hard work? Best of all, because I am no longer paid and now work for free I am not taxable and no longer contribute to the running of schools, roads and hospitals. 

If anyone ever gets to read this message, acta is kinda pointless. If Hollywood or some music company wants money, just make more things, whats so hard about that, I mean seriosouly. The internet is running their dam jobs, and if everything gets censored or deleted, whats the point of spreading the word when a new movie comes out? I live in america, and I live in a world, in freedom, justice, and prosperity, and I still post things and music on youtube, and Google without people complaining. The whole world should be ashamed. I will make a world wide protest against If someone downed my freedom and free speech. ""We stand together-United"" 

If you really dislike my thought ^, you should reconsider , when you make a video of your family with posters marked of another artist in the background. or have music.EXPLAIN YOURSELF.

Jean Claude! You are in a virtual world. Film makers and artists already make millions of dollars so you don`t have to feel pity for them because they are doing alright. There are other ways of protecting creativity. Not to mention the fact that those creative people sucked in the information and knowledge of others in school and their education and life was financed by tax payers. The information flow cannot be stopped. The limitation of the flow of information is the biggest failure of capitalism that will lead to its collapse. Think about the geniuses that would no nothing about computers if they would have forced to buy all legal computer software. ACTA is not aiming to protect creativity but shutting down creativity. SAY NO TO ACTA!!!!

omg Jean Claude you prob don't know that because of site like pirate bay mega-upload etc. etc. that 85% of Hollywood business  model would not esist so because of them how much money are they making know ? + we wouldn't have site like play.com. And all the people that downloaded stuff from the net illegally  WOULDN'T HAVE BUYED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE ,so how much have they lost ?

Thanks Jimbo of taking the time to respond. I can confirm I don't work for a big entertainment studio with deep pickets, though I do work on micro independent films based out of london. We released a film last November, very low budget but all that we could afford. Crew (as usual) gave us goodwill and accepted a share of profits. The film had a good reception and generated press. We sold it online without DRM at a low price. Sales were about 30 copies a day or two weeks, then a Saturday afternoon it was posted to the Piratebay. Within the hour sales dropped to 2 a day. A very specific stat with a very specific cause, nothing to do with Hollywood or corporations. We will never see the money back. The crew, one with new borne baby will never benefit from their work. We need a strong Putin like character to wipe out the pirates (thieves) who hide behind cardboard masks and identifiable I.P's. Jimbo, you should tell the new borne baby's dad his 3 month year old baby can starve because he is living in a virtual world. Oddly, they would prefer food on he table than defend freedom to steal.  --- Billy Bob, if you wouldn't have downloaded it then don't download it. Like in a shop, if your not going to buy it, don't steal it. 

@ jean, make a cd than, and don't put it online. Your company should be doing that and making more than movies.. If their just putting it online, it's not a company at all, and on the internet it's not considered stealing at all.  It's called being competitive, not being lazy.Work is not about being lasy. If their posting it on another site, you still have the main resource, and just have your name on the bottom left like vevo does.Just sell it elsewhere , people will still buy it. Like redbox, or Blockbuster. Whats hard about that?

As someone working as a software developer (you know, the first people to have their work "stolen" online), I can attest that stealing does cut into profits. I have dozens of paid-for apps on my computer that I get laughed at for paying for because of how often they're "cracked". None of them by a major corporation. Copyright infringement and piracy are a huge problem for small businesses and independent developers and artists. That said, I'd gladly switch careers to janitorial duty rather than let the governments impose what is in ACTA. Even at that, you can develop a business model that is piracy-aware and NOT lose business when people pirate your software or media product. Most developers have software models that work. If your music or video product is losing sales to Pirate Bay, you need to rethink how you're monetizing it. I sincerely doubt the truth of the story "Jean Claude de Berry" is pushing, it sounds ripped right out of the troll book, particularly the cutoff valve nonsense, and the fact that he didn't bother mentioning the specific film here so it could be bought by those who sympathized with the sob story.

@Merennulli, you're absolutely right - "Jean Claude de Berry" 's story is crock. I've been reading a few of his other posts online - always on this same topic - and it's just a bunch of whining boo-hoo. A sh*tload of my friends are artists and all of them are against ACTA - why? Because ACTA does not protect them nor give them any further credit for the work they do, it simply benefits the companies responsible for putting them on the market as tradeable goods. I've lately become interested in projecting documentaries for the common people, free-of-charge, and can honestly tell you all it's a pain in the backside. This all due to the publishers - the authors of the work are more than alright for their work to be displayed for free for the benefit of the community and even to participate in debates about their projects - who sistematically refuse to help unless you promise them you'll pay the fees they set for the public display of the said documentary. This specific case refers to the portuguese documentary "Fantasia Lusitana" and is a true-story.
On a different note, are you guys aware of the "Private copying levy" ? Read up on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy -> that, my friends, is the sound of unfairness. You are already paying an excess tax based on the assumption you will use your blank-media - and in the latest update, your new hard-drive - for copying purposes. Nevermind the rest of the bollocks! 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY NO TO ACTA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merennulli wrote in #8

As someone working as a software developer (you know, the first people to have their work "stolen" online), I can attest that stealing does cut into profits. I have dozens of paid-for apps on my computer that I get laughed at for paying for because of how often they're "cracked". None of them by a major corporation. Copyright infringement and piracy are a huge problem for small businesses and independent developers and artists. That said, I'd gladly switch careers to janitorial duty rather than let the governments impose what is in ACTA. Even at that, you can develop a business model that is piracy-aware and NOT lose business when people pirate your software or media product. Most developers have software models that work. If your music or video product is losing sales to Pirate Bay, you need to rethink how you're monetizing it. I sincerely doubt the truth of the story "Jean Claude de Berry" is pushing, it sounds ripped right out of the troll book, particularly the cutoff valve nonsense, and the fact that he didn't bother mentioning the specific film here so it could be bought by those who sympathized with the sob story.

thats a bunch of BS, and btw im a Blackhat hacker, i know how the business is run. If i snap my fingers webpages goes down, if i feel happy i give products for free what other way would cost top mony to have, and they dont even work that well some of the products, they put em to sell, before they are even worth anything, and then all of the suddenly you need to upgrade em, and that all so would cost top monies. so i say NO to Acta, unless you want to censorship the whole internet.