Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA
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Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA
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#2Update - street protests in 13 cities are planned for next week. The biggest one seems to be in Warsaw (over 13,000 people joined the event).
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#3It's worth being noted that the latest attacks on government's websites are top headlines on majority of Polish news sites at the moment. Both the attacks and ACTA are being covered on news TV channels and radio. Apparently, taking down government's website is a remarkably good method of raising interest of media.
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#4Update - street protests in 13 cities are planned for next week. The biggest one seems to be in Warsaw (over 13,000 people joined the event).
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#5Some simple instructions + JS web applications allowed thousands of people from Poland to DDoS those websites on their own
Willful participation in a DDoS doesn't sound like a good idea (being a criminal offense in Poland) just as much as the whole concept of getting the government to change their mind by taking down their websites (especially those belonging to parties not involved in the ACTA ratification process). One thing that folks behind this seem to have failed to learn from the SOPA battle is to make it impossible for the government to present the protesters as the bad guys in this situation in the mass media.
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#6Some simple instructions + JS web applications allowed thousands of people from Poland to DDoS those websites on their own Willful participation in a DDoS doesn't sound like a good idea (being a criminal offense in Poland) just as much as the whole concept of getting the government to change their mind by taking down their websites (especially those belonging to parties not involved in the ACTA ratification process).…
Yes, but I think that much of the public sentiment is that the very same mass media not covering ACTA is the one behind this kind of policies. So, they try to make it impossible for them not to cover the story. Sadly, I fear that this kind of action may be presented as valid examples of why the Internet must be regulated.
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#7Let me know if I can help anyway: scripts, source code, bandwidth.
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#8Let me know if I can help anyway: scripts, source code, bandwidth.
Most of the information (in english) about joining/current progress are being twitted in here - https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousWiki
They've taken down quite a few websites that I wouldn't really associate with acta. There is also quite a lot of people making general mess around the situation. Nevertheless, I've never seen an action like that in the Polish "corner" of the Internet, quite remarkable.
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#9Some simple instructions + JS web applications allowed thousands of people from Poland to DDoS those websites on their own Willful participation in a DDoS doesn't sound like a good idea (being a criminal offense in Poland) just as much as the whole concept of getting the government to change their mind by taking down their websites (especially those belonging to parties not involved in the ACTA ratification process).…
Polish people tend to always think that protesters are right just because they protest and the Government is wrong just because it is the Government. Hence, I wouldn't worry too much about this what the Government will tell to the public about the protesters. The public will know better as it always does in Poland.
Actually, this is just one of the reasons why I live in Poland even though I'm an US citizen. People just distrust the Government and the media here so much. It is fantastic!
Re: Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA
#10Some simple instructions + JS web applications allowed thousands of people from Poland to DDoS those websites on their own Willful participation in a DDoS doesn't sound like a good idea (being a criminal offense in Poland) just as much as the whole concept of getting the government to change their mind by taking down their websites (especially those belonging to parties not involved in the ACTA ratification process).…
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