Members of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, which form one of the ruling parties in the German government right now, like SOPA so much that they want their own version of it for Germany. While they admit that some parts of it are problematic, they are all for censoring the internet, even stating that such a law would not be about censorship but about "protecting artists from exploitation." They then go on to state that all those who protested against SOPA are basically helping sites like Megaupload with their illegal activities.
While this sure sounds bad, especially since it comes from one of the ruling parties, I'm pretty certain that the German population is going to react as soon as such ideas get closer to become realized. Ever since SOPA and PIPA, people have been paying more attention to these issues, which hopefully will stop ACTA. Still, I'm amazed that some Germans want to import bad ideas like these.
MegaUpload - CDU/CSU wollen Zensurgesetz SOPA auch für Deutschland [Gamestar]
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6:15 PM on 01.31.2012 | 
It passed here in Ireland despite people's time-limited efforts to change it, the legislators didn't listen.
Im not sure if they did, but I read media companies were actually suing the government for not passing it fast enough. The implications are almost too insane to want to think about, its depressing stuff.
>internet censorship
what? I don't even
I may have mentioned it once but I think I got away with it..
Germany wanting to have COMPLETE CONTROL over something? *insert the many war puns here*
yeah this is where the problem is.
god damn it
Goddammit.
considering that ACTA makes SOPA/PIPA look like a gift for gamers i would be pretty concerned.
The sad part, these bills are more about enabling media control than stopping piracy. I don't agree with piracy, but I do not think there's a real solution without curtailing our rights. If I were running the RIAA and the MPAA, I'd be working to create a strategy that pulls more customers in - rather than pissing existing customers off.
Now if this is some elaborate way to do marketing for a new movie based on George Orwell's 1984, please stop now - just go back to doing viral videos and annoying banner ads that pulldown automatically.
Also for everyone that wants to help there is this petition site:
http://www.avaaz.org/de/eu_save_the_internet/
already at 1,3 million signers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
For more information.
Germany has not yet approved this but is on the fence. And we might get fucked because the EU might overrule the german parliament.
the christian in cdu/csu stands not for reliability to the church, it stand for the christian sense. believe it or not, but europe (and usa much more) is started with christians, and so, we got christians things and meanings and so on.
damn stupid fuck, us people mock about german parties? lol - look at your own 2-party system...yeah, what a democracy...only beaten by the democracy from the DR oder other communist countrys (yeah, here they could elect too, but only 1 party .....and you, the usa can choose between 2...oh yes.)
btw. the cdu/csu is the german for your republicans ...
damn stupid fuck
Time to learn Svenska and get used to the cold it seems.
Complacency has been the name of the game for such a long time here, especially when it comes to video games.
I still think it's outrageous that German game publications don't make a bigger deal about the censorship of games here in Germany. Many people are still ill- and miss-informed about the modern state of video games, the discussion of "Killerspiele" (Killer games) is brought up so often and always with bullshit ties to some youth shootings.
Of course all the big-mouthed politicians have no fucking clue what they are talking about but it has still been enough to create a disdain for games among a lot of Germans.
It makes me really sad, Germany can be so nice but this is just shit.
Fucking vicious circle of life... Its a total catch 22 situation of "if we don't act, politicians win, but if we act they use it as 'reasons' against us"
Either way, If anyone has any idea how people outside certain areas of the world being plagued with this can help fight these situations, I'm all ears. And please urge someone to make an article or feature out of it so more of us can help. This shits gotta stop.
Wow did they miss the point. Megaupload was shut down without SOPA or PIPA involved at all... so tell us again why protesting ACTA or anything else like these bills are favoring pirates? We're all in favor of stopping piracy, (maybe kids will actually start buying good music instead of stealing what horrible crap they listen to these days) but not at the expense of shutting down the entire internet and putting possibly millions of people out of work.
Hey... we're trying to save your jobs here! If Youtube, Facebook and Twitter all get shut down because a major record label sues the next Justin Beaver for copyright infringement, A LOT of people are going to hate you for passing this bill. You should be thanking us for bringing these bills' problems to your attention!!!
actually, not so able, aren't you?