PublicACTA
On 10th April 2010 an important event took place in Wellington. A group of concerned citizens got together to discuss ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The event was called PublicACTA:
Mark Harris has been following the development of the trade agreement closely, and agreed to talk about the event and answer a few questions I had on ACTA. I first became aware of Mark's research after noticing a link to his wiki on ACTA from Wikipedia:
http://acta.tracs.co.nz/tiki-index.php
Mark mentions some links in the interview, which you find on his blog:
http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/category/acta/
Mark's interview forms the first half of this episode, and then I present a reading of the Wellington Declaration, in my best Librivox voice. It's a short document, and if you were too lazy to read it yourself, you can listen to it here.
After listening or reading the document and you find you agree with it, I encourage you to sign the petition here:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/35443.html
After that I made an announcement about the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx release party the Waikato Linux Users Group is holding this Saturday:
http://wlug.org.nz/SaturdayWorkshop.2010-05-01
And I played some selections from the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
This episode was sponsored by Gravity Computing.
Filename: newitmake36.mp3 (listen)
Size: 26.5 MB
Recording type: audio/mpeg
