“Cuz they don’t want people to know of course! Duh. Would you?”

Lets do something about that.

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Dear Mr Botnet Owner

Currently you are pretty much free to spam the planet. After ACTA is passed your botnets will come under much greater scrutiny. ISPs will be forced to monitor everything that goes on their networks so as to not face secondary liability. They would also eventually face criminal charges. This monitoring will make it much harder for you as a botnet owner to survive and thrive. So it is in your best interest to e-mail the full text of the leaked document to everyone you can.

Signed

ThinkingOutsideTheBox

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What you as a botnet owner should e-mail people
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Dear Citizen of a soon to be more oppresive government

ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

1) ACTA is being negotiated in secret on behalf
of the Media distribution companies (Newpapers,
Record Labels, TV Studios, and Movie Studios),
and Pharmacutical companies.
2) You can be kicked off the internet based on
accusations and with no due process.
3) Your ISP will be forced to monitor all your
communications without a warrant.
4) Your website can be taken down based on an
accusation of infringement without any proof.
5) Making back up copies of your DVDs will be
a criminal offense and you can face jail time.
6) If you are accused of copyright infringement
3 times you can be disconnected from the
internet.
7) The secondary liability will require
everything you post online to be checked by a
lawyer.
8) There will be no way to protest or appeal
any of laws ACTA will cause to be implemented.

Read the Following Leaked Document and tell
your friends and family. Contact you local
politician and demand that ACTA to be
opened up for public comment. Google
for “Anti Counterfiet Trade Agreement” and
“ACTA”.

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Full text of leaked document
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ACTA (Anti Counterfiet Trade Agreement) internet section

Article 2.17: Enforcement procedures in the digital environment
1. Each Party shall ensure that enforcement procedures, to the extent set forth in the civil and
criminal enforcement sections of this Agreement, are available under its law so as to permit
effective action against an act of, trademark, copyright or related rights infringement which
takes place by means of the Internet, including expeditious remedies to prevent infringement
and remedies which constitute a deterrent to further infringement.
2. Without prejudice to the rights, limitations, exceptions or defenses to copyright or related
rights infringement available under its law, including with respect to the issue of exhaustion
of rights, each Party confirms that civil remedies, as well as limitations, exceptions, or
defenses with respect to the application of such remedies, are available in its legal system in
cases of third party liability1 for copyright and related rights infringement.2
3. Each Party recognize that some persons3 use the services of third parties, including online
service providers,4 for engaging in copyright or related rights infringement. Each Party also
recognizes that legal uncertainty with respect to application of intellectual property rights,
limitations, exceptions, and defenses in the digital environment may present barriers to the
economic growth of, and opportunities in, electronic commerce. Accordingly, in order to
facilitate the continued development of an industry engaged in providing information
services online while also ensuring that measures take adequate and effective action against
copyright or related rights infringement are available and reasonable, each Party shall:
(a) provide limitations5 on the scope of civil remedies available against an online
service provider for infringing activities that occur by:
(I) automatic technical processes and
(II) the actions of the provider’s users that are not directed or initiated by
that provider when the provider does not select the material, and
(III) the provider referring or linking users to an online location
when, in cases of subparagraphs (II) and (III), the provider does not have actual
knowledge of the infringement and is not aware of the facts or circumstances from
which infringing activity is apparent; and
(b) condition the applicantion of the provisions of subparagraph (a) on meeting
the following requirements:
(I) an online service provider adopting and reasonably implementing a
1 For greater certainty, the Parties understand that third party liability means liability for any person who authorizes
for a direct financial benefit, induces through or by conduct directed to promoting infringement, or knowingly and
materially aids, any act of copyright or related rights infringement by another. Further, the parties also understand
that the application of third party liability may include consideration of exceptions or limitations to exclusive rights
that are confined to certain special cases that do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work, performance or
phonogram, and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the right holder, including fair use, fair
dealing, or their equivalents.
2 Negotiator’s Note: This provision is intended to be moved and located in the civil enforcement section.
3 For purposes of this Article, person means a natural person or an enterprise.
4 For purposes of this Article, online service provider and provider mean a provider of online services or network
access, or the operators of facilities therefor, and includes an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing
of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the
user’s choosing, without modification of the content of the material as sent or received.
5 For greater certainty, the Parties understand that the failure of an online service provider’s conduct to qualify for a
limitation of liability under its measures implementing this provision shall not bear adversely on the consideration of
a defense of the service provider that the service provider’s conduct is not infringing or any other defense.
policy6 to address the unauthorized storage or transmission of materials protected by
copyright or related rights except that no Party may condition the limitations in
subparagraph (a) on the online service provider’s monitoring its services or affirmatively
seeking facts indicating that infringing activity is occurring; and
(II) an online service provider expeditiously removing or disabling access
to material or activity, upon receipt of legally sufficient notice of alleged infringement, and
in the absence of a legally sufficient response from the relevant subscriber of the online
service provider indicating that the notice was the result of a mistake or misidentification.
except that the provisions of (II) shall not be applied to the extent that the online service
provider is acting solely as a conduit for transmissions through its system or network.
4. In implementing Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and Article 18 of the WIPO
Performances and Phonograms Treaty regarding adequate legal protection and effective legal
remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors,
performers or producers of phonograms in connection with the exercise of their rights and that
restrict unauthorized acts in respect of their works, performances, and phonograms, each Party shall
provide civil remedies, as well as criminal penalties in appropriate cases of willful conduct that
apply to:
(a) the unauthorized circumvention of an effective technological measure7 that controls
access to a protected work, performance, or phonogram; and
(b) the manufacture, importation, or circulation of a technology, service, device, product,
component, or part thereof, that is: marketed or primarily designed or produced for the
purpose of circumventing an effective technological measure; or that has only a limited
commercially significant purpose or use other than circumventing an effective technological
measure.
5. Each Party shall provide that a violation of a measure implementing paragraph (4) is a
separate civil or criminal offense, independent of any infringement of copyright or related rights.8
Further, each Party may adopt exceptions and limitations to measures implementing subparagraph
(4) so long as they do not significantly impair the adequacy of legal protection of those measures or
the effectiveness of legal remedies for violations of those measures.9
6. In implementing Article 12 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and Article 19 of the WIPO
Performances and Phonograms Treaty on providing adequate and effective legal remedies to
protect rights management information, each Party shall provide for civil remedies, as well as
criminal penalties in appropriate cases of willful conduct, that apply to any person performing any
of the following acts knowing that it will induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement of
any copyright or related right:
6 An example of such a policy is providing for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscriptions and
accounts in the service provider’s system or network of repeat infringers.
7 For the purposes of this Article, effective technological measure means any technology, device, or component that,
in the normal course of its operation, controls access to a protected work, performance, phonogram, or protects any
copyright or any rights related to copyright.
8 The obligations in paragraphs (4) and (5) are without prejudice to the rights, limitations, exceptions, or defenses to
copyright or related rights infringement. Further, in implementing paragraph (4), no Party may require that the
design of, or the design and selection of parts and components for, a consumer electronics, telecommunications, or
computing product provide for a response to any particular technological measure, so long as the product does not
otherwise violate any measures implementing paragraph (4).
9 Negotiator’s Note: This provision is subject to broader government action/sovereign immunity provision elsewhere
in the Agreement.
(a) to remove or alter any rights management information10 without authority; and
(b) to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast, communicate, or make available to the
public, copies of the works, performances, or phonograms, knowing that rights management
information has been removed or altered without authority.
7. Each Party may adopt appropriate limitations or exceptions to the requirements of
subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (6).
10 For the purposes of this Article, rights management information means:
(a) information that identifies a work, performance, or phonogram; the author of the work, the performer of the
performance, or the producer of the phonogram; or the owner of any right in the work, performance, or phonogram;
(b) information about the terms and conditions of the use of the work, performance, or phonogram; or
(c) any numbers or codes that represent such information.
When any of these items is attached to a copy of the work, performance, or phonogram or appears in connection with
the communication or making available of a work, performance, or phonogram to the public.