Polish Politicians Don Guy Fawkes/Anonymous Masks To Protest ACTA Signing
from the isn't-that-infringing? dept
There’s been lots of talk today about how various EU governments are agreeing to sign ACTA (which still needs to be ratified by the EU Parliament). It’s gotten the most attention in Poland, where there were mass protests — but the government there still signed. Of course, not everyone in the Polish government agreed. Amazingly, officials from the Palikot’s Movement held up the famed Guy Fawkes/Anonymous masks in Parliament to protest the vote:
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One word: EPIC!
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What would be truly EPIC, is if Warner Brothers had the unmitigated balls to sue these politicians for copyright infringement.
Because you know in the back of their minds they really really want to.
Haha, so awesome.
That is just awesome!
Awesome
This is a photo that is sure to grace the Internet for years to come.
The nature of this photo has been called into doubt though when some claim that these are not people who oppose ACTA but ones who only want the popularity.
I don’t really care on that answer when it will make much anti-ACTA news whatever their true intentions.
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What’s the difference between trying to be popular among constituents the majority of which don’t support the ACTA and a politician’s job?
Anonymous is in the house!
“It’s gotten the most attention in Poland, where there were mass protests — but the government there still signed.”
To be fair, it’s not necessarily going to stay signed. The opposition party is demanding a referendum, which could seriously undermine the movement. A contact in Poland says that the earlier comments about the government “not submitting to blackmail” are not being well-received by the public, and that it’s just the majority’s attempt to save face. Poland still has a fighting chance.
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says that the earlier comments about the government “not submitting to blackmail” are not being well-received by the public
Go figure. Who could possibly have thought that calling it “blackmail” when the public tries to participate in the political process and voice their concerns would be well received?
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And the Polish are definitely not afraid to stand up and fight.
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Yes that is true.
This is the most proud I’ve been of politicians, hell possibly my species in general, ever.
Re: Proud of poilticians?
Leader of these politicians originally voted for ACTA and had no objections about this treaty. Only now when they see mass protests on the streets and in the internet they’re seeking cheap popularity! Nothing really to be proud of 🙁 unfortunately. It just works like that in polish parliament that you can say one thing then do something completly opposite and still face no consequences at all. (Usually You can even count on popularity increase among the public – like this time).
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i’m afraid they’re just worn masks havin’ no true faces
I think the Polish understands what censorship is even when wrapped with a nice package
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if anybody understand censorship and repression it would be the eastern bloc countries especially poland.
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Amen to that.
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Well.. we (yep I am Polish) were under communists dictatorship for decades feed with propaganda under strict censorship. We can see easily now new censorship attempts in disguise.
That picture just drips loads of awesomness!!!
Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
Because you cannot buy original mask in Poland.
Wherever is demand for things that aren’t accessible one will always find alternative…
It’s only copyright holder fault that it did not meet the need…
Re: Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
Wasn’t the “original” worn by a guy who died like a century ago?
😛
Re: Re: Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
The original Guido Fawkes did not wear a mark. He also lived between April 13, 1570 and January 31, 1606; before he was hanged, drawn and quartered, with his then bits burnt on a bonfire.
Even the original writing of “V for Vendetta” had no mask when it is purely a creation of the movie. Most interestingly this prop is protected by the law and when you buy the original your money goes to the “big media” we hate.
Then let us not forget this is the usual Hollywood dropping turds on foreign culture and tradition. One Guy Fawkes was the terrorist of the day, wanting to replace the Monarchy, and his death has been celebrated for over 400 years.
This would be like if we British made a character representing Osama Bin Laden in a Mickey Mouse mask and then celebrating the 9/11 destruction of the twin towers as victory over the bad Bush Government! Insane or what?
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The mask is definitely NOT a creation of the movie. In the comic his face was disfigured by the experiments and/or fire he caused at Larkhill Resettlement camp. He wears the mask throughout. Its even on the cover.
http://www.amazon.com/V-Vendetta-Alan-Moore/dp/1401207928/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327621023&sr=1-1
The mask is also in the preliminary stuff David Lloyd sketched up, which is at the back of this hardback I have.
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The publication date of that book is 2005. IMDB says the movie was released in 2005 so the book was released to match the movie.
If you want to see the original story then you need to see the UK Warrior magazines published between 1982 and 1985.
Trust me and the author. The mask came from the movie.
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Interesting. Every bit of info I found about the 80’s comic contradicts what you’re saying.
http://www.thehoodedsage.com/2011/11/v-for-vendetta/
“What the movie never shows from the original story is that after V dies, Evey dons the Guy Fawkes mask and actually becomes the masked vigilante herself. Evey becomes V. Evey becomes the Idea?the Symbol. It?s not enough to sit around with concepts. Eventually, you have to move beyond concepts and actually become the energy of what the concepts mean. and That ? is the very moment that you actually get it.”
If he wore no mask, how could Evey (comics) wear it later?
http://postdesk.com/blog/an-interview-with-the-british-man-who-designed-the-anonymous-v-for-vendetta-mask-on-what-he-thinks-of-how-its-being-used
Apparently, the illustrator of the comics designed a mask for the comics, which the comic guy character wore, according to him. Is he wrong?
Re: Re: Re:4 Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
The use of this mask, in this context, does not involve V or Guy Fawkes directly in any way. It was a symbol of Epic Fail Guy (EFG) from 4chan that was used in the Chanology protests of The Church of Scientology to imply that Scientology is “epic fail”. This is where it gained the real life use of it as the symbol of protest. Anything involving Alan Moore’s work or Mr. 17th-Century is purely a red herring.
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That still has no bearing on the fact that the comic version of V wore a mask, just like the movie adaptation, which is what is being disputed in this thread.
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Good luck revising history troll style as anyone bothering to do a bit of research will laugh at you expense
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Yeah, dude, that book was compiled from the UK Warrior magazines from 1982 to 1985. It wasn’t a new book created to match the movie.
I don’t think you know what you are talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(comics)
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Let’s just put this all to bed right now….
someone else posted this link: http://www.thehoodedsage.com/2011/11/v-for-vendetta/ BUT only decided to copy/paste the LAST part of it, HERE is the first part…
(Note my caps below)
“V for Vendetta originally appeared in 1982 in the black-and-white British comic book, Warrior, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. The story was about anarchy in the UK, set in a near-future, post-nuclear police state, where political prisoners had been rounded up into concentration camps and used for experiments. An escaped prisoner and anarchist revolutionary WEARING A GUY FAWKES MASK, known only as ?V?…..”
YES there has ALWAYS been a mask, nothing new, nothing altered, T.W. MAY hold rights on the “official” plastic masks that are made and sold, but they CAN NOT attempt to trademark or patent the actual ‘look’ as the actual look is GUY FAWKES’S LIKENESS.
So….
TL:DR:
The mask was there since day 1 of the org 80’s graphic novel & Time Warner can’t sure for someone using the likeness of an 1800’s REAL PERSON 😉
-Teron-
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correction… 1600’s not 1800’s lol
-Teron-
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Guy Fawkes was the terrorist of the day but so were the founding fathers over here in America. They are now celebrated as symbols of standing up to repressive regimes much as Guy Fawkes is celebrated today.
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Excepting that Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated to MOCK Fawkes’ plans.
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The Problem of course is that Guy Fawkes didn’t stand up against a repressive regime, but instead fought for the re-introduction of a repressive religion and regime.
Guy Fawkes fought under the name Guido Fawkes for the oppressive Spanish Government, who attempted to stamp the Dutch Revolt into the ground. He then tried to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne.
This Guy Fawkes was hardly a freedom loving figure, but more a henchman of a foreign power, or as Lenin called them, a Useful Idiot.
Now the interesting question is whether all those Anonymous persons want to become the 21st century’s Useful Idiots for Hollywood?
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Ehhhhh. The mask was in the graphi novel.
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I heard the original author say himself that the mask is the sole creation of the movie. He was discussing the Anonymous aspect then.
When making the movie they wanted to move away from the general terrorist anarchist type character and to give him a “guy fawkes” iconic appearance and a Robin Hood type personality.
It would no surprise that any further written works publish after the movie release would be adjusted to match the movie, mask and all, seeing that it did so well.
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“It would no surprise that any further written works publish after the movie release would be adjusted to match the movie, mask and all, seeing that it did so well.”
Please, do the world a favor and have even a slight clue as to what you are talking about when you say stuff like this. The comic was NOT “adjusted” to match the movie vis-a-vis the mask. That was a component of the original comic since its inception. All one has to do is find any back issue and read even a couple of pages to prove your ridiculous assertion completely false.
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Dude, I read ‘V for Vendetta’ years and YEARS before there was even discussion about the movie, and let me be crystal clear: the mask was in the graphic novel from the beginning. You either misunderstood the quote you keep mentioning, or it was just wrong.
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I read the original in the 80’s or was 90’s?
It did have a mask.
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So wrong. V for Vendetta the graphic novel did have a mask. That’s where it originates, not the movie. They’re celebrating the character V not Guy Fawkes by wearing it.
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I have been checking what I heard and I believe it must have been the man who made the mask for the movie and not the original author.
So unlike I incorrectly stated the original comics did involve a mask. However when the movie was made they created a different mask and it is that mask which they now sell cheaper copies of and which all profit goes to Time Warner.
The ultimate irony. Those who fight big media fund big media.
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I believe you are missinformed.
http://www.shadowgalaxy.net/Vendetta/gallery.html
The mask in the movie fallow exactly the design set in the comic book.
Even the ridiculous red circles in the cheeks are there.
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The profits go to Warner though since I believe they bought the rights to it and own it or have a deal for the merch or something like that.
But for me the real irony is that although Time Warner is making a buck, that buck will cost them dearly.
Loss of public respect translates to loss of power and eventually money.
Re: Re: Re:4 Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
I’d be surprised if Warner could claim IP rights to this here in the UK, as the mask is pretty much a slight variation on the original masks you could buy around November, going back at least to the early ’70s.
We used to buy them to put on our Guy Fawkes dummies, which were used by kids to make a few quid by displaying them on the pavements and asking for ‘a penny for the Guy’. Come November the 5th they’d then be thrown on the bonfire and burnt! Great times 🙂
Re: Re: Re:3 Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
You may be confusing that with the link I put, where the illustrator of the comics couldn’t find an actual Fawkes mask (it was the wrong month) so he had to design one.
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I don’t know what “orginal” copy of V you read my I’m looking at my copies of the comic by Alan Moore and low and behold there is a mask.
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In Anon, Guy Fawkes is considered Epic Fail Guy.
He was picked because he failed.
Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated because he failed.
Anonymous has turned failure into pure win.
Re: Re: Re:2 Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
Yes, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated because he failed- in England. You go up north to Scotland and you realize there still is celebration, but citizens unofficially celebrate the chance they missed to disconnect from Britain;)
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May I point out a slight difference between blowing up a building representing the oppressive authorities and killing thousands of innocent people? I grew up in Poland. One of the books we HAD to read and discuss at school talked about children and young people blowing up German trains during the war and spilling acid on women who dated Germans. Funny, they told us that’s patriotism, that this is how you fight for your freedom when the authorities give you no other choice. I’m not saying we should start blowing things up, what’s the point? But we have to fight against oppression. Poland just got out of one Orwellian nightmare and we do not mean to allow another one to happen. We are lucky enough today to have legal and bloodless ways to do so, all we need is solidarity among free-minded people.
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Yes, I think it was called “his actual face”
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400+ years ago. In England.
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400+ years ago. In England.
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Just over four, actually. 1605 AD.
Re: Why "counterfeit" it? Surely every man sitting there can afford original one, righ?
You actually can buy oryginals in Poland, but protestors bought all of them already (I’m from Poland).
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Where can you get them in Poland? I was looking for them everywhere!
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http://allegro.pl/listing.php/search?sg=0&string=acta
nie tylko maski polecam, przyłączyc się . Chyba będzie z tego wojna.
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http://allegro.pl/listing.php/search?sg=0&string=acta
nie tylko maski polecam, przy??czyc si? . Chyba b?dzie z tego wojna.
Maybe we should all chip in to get Senator Wyden a Guy Fawkes mask for his inevitable filibusterer of the next copyright-maximalist bill?
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We should send them to all the senators and congress critters.
perhaps the real motive behind these bills/laws isn’t to prevent counterfeit goods sales (haha), isn’t to prevent copyright infringement (duh) but really to stop people from being able to organise demonstrations using the internet. just think about how unsuccessful the various uprisings last year would have been without it, if the then governments had been able to shut it down.
Masks for our US politicians?
We should print/cut out masks and send them to our politicians in the US. Maybe our politicians would wear them too. Then again, DHS would probably intercept the mail, track you down, arrest, and jail you indefinitely.
BR.
If we speak about Polish protests against ACTA
you should see that http://mainhg.demotywatory.pl/uploads/201201/1327613556_by_Kazan_500.jpg and its just a beggining…
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yes , its not the end . We are just starting .
anti-ACTA protest in poland
You can watch this video compilation from polish cities, one time, one day different cities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiV_SB-scM
I did not clone myself and take over Polish Parliament.
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Pity that.
If you had I’d have said you should do Congress next. Things would probably run better if you were in charge.
How many Polish legislators wearing goofy masks does it take to………
i now respect these politicians. they are awesome. that is all.
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not all of them are good , just some of them 🙂
You nobs, if you open that book and look two pages in, the copyright date of the front cover is 1990 to DC Comics. They did not change the graphic novel to insert masks everywhere over the original art; that’s just stupid.
What everyone so far has failed to notice is that DC Comics is a division of Warner Bros and Time Warner. So chicken or egg, it all belongs to them anyway.
Hmm, people protested and the government signed it anyway. I seem to recall predicting that ACTA would be signed by the major countries, including the US, no matter how much people were against it. I believe I said that the entertainment industry had spent too much time and money on it for it not to be signed.
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Keep in mind that the fight isn’t over yet. The Polish citizenry is raising a major stink, the opposition party is demanding a referendum, and dissent is spreading across Europe.
Nobody expected an instant victory, particularly when the battle is on an international scale. Right now, Poland is setting a precedent, showing that the common man won’t cave in to corporate pressure and negative press. Will they win? Maybe. But even if they don’t, they’re standing up for what they believe in. And are you really so petty as to mock them for that?
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Wait and see when this fight is just starting. The key point is the European Parliament vote months away.
Currently I think those in the United States need to do more to ensure ACTA is passed to Congress to review. Out protesting on the streets will be more productive than their current plan.
Interesting
It is often hard to feel like a patriot in Poland in these times, but when you finally feel it, this long-time forgotten spark in your heart you can do anything, even die fighting.
I think we can expect Lamar Smith to consider the entire country of Poland as the minority.
WYKOP KURWA!!!
HAHA
DONALD TUSK IS GOOD! ACTA IS FUTURE! DONALD TUSK IS MY KING! DONALD TUSK! DONALD TUSK! DONALED TUSK!
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What????
ACTA is NOT good for EVERYONE! We (polish people) dont wont ACTA in our country!
Poland is always first to fight for freedom!
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Yes. I am proud that I am polish.
Ehh czego to się nie robi aby zyskać rozgłoś. 🙁
Poland in protest
the protest took place in all bigger cities in Poland. Pepole just simply went on the streets as we do not like when the goverment is doing something behind our back.
the link shows you what was happening in only one city:
http://krakow.gazeta.pl/krakow/1,44425,11032507,Protest_przeciwko_ACTA_w_Krakowie__FOTO_i_WIDEO_.html
and it is not over. next protests are planned for today and tomorrow. the prime minister started to understand that they make a misstake…
chyzy ruj
Here’s Poland – we, young people do not stop our protest. The cities are occupied. Don’t believe to the media – we do protest all the time and we prepare an revolution, an revolution which began in our minds, will be now shown on the streets. Currently in the whole country there are over 700.000 of us on the streets and we won’t return our homes without vicotry, we will not stop!!! Let this be the beginning of the global Internet identity reloveution! No ACTA, No NWO, No 1984!!! We are not products, we are not things, we are people and we deserve our freedom and will of choice! We never step back, we never surrender!
Democracy = Dictature
Hello world!
You must know, that our world is controlled since centuries. World governments, especially USA aren’t real democratic government. YOU USA PEOPLE HAVE THE BIGGEST PROPAGANDA ON THE WORLD. The propaganda is based on your good hearts, based on our white people culture developed since more than 2000 years. They destroying the our civilization, the most powerful civilization. Now, we’re falling down due socialism systems – whole XX century. Now, in the Europe – there’s next socialism system. And we fallen down again. We have to stop this, before they destroy planet with soldiers, new technology weapons such nuclear bomb, etc. Bush, Obama were only puppets. The real power, reign are behind curtain. The main media like CNN, Hollywood, MTV are tools to make a propaganda. You must know, that freemasonry control us and they probably control or WILL TRY TO CONTROL ANONYMOUS MOVEMENT, so beware! In the Poland we had the same history, believe me, we experienced so much. Don’t trust your government – they are bad “people”, very bad – more than you will even could think…
Two days before their “mask stunt” they didn’t know what ACTA was.
i come from poland and i tell you guys that this is element on political game in which small party want to gain some electorat (through happenings like that). the protest against ACTA starts in Internet on portals like a wykop.pl when free, aware surfers mobilisate people on social portals and took on the streets. don’t let politicize this citizens protest.
btw. sry for my english, i hope you understood what i was trying to say
greetings from Poland
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It’s “mobilize” but your English is great, and thanks for commenting.
People!
Janusz Palikot was a very active activist PO – Tusk’s party, the ruling now in Poland. He is not so, what would you see him. He also took what he could and just lied and insulted “the other” as Tusk.
Now assumes that mask, because he wants to show that is so cool and solidarity with the protesters. But in reality is just propaganda, which aims to show Palikot in a better light. He just about to win the electorate PO, who will not know for whom to vote in subsequent elections.
Today, he joined the demonstrators in Warsaw, but Polish fans driven out of him.
Do not be fooled!
Read the opinions of reliable web sites, for example: http://www.niezalezna.pl http://www.salon24.pl
Polish girl
don't believe them
I agree with previous comments. I come from Poland, I took part in the protests, and there is one thing I can tell you – there is no political party in Poland that can be trusted. The Civic Platform is scared now and quite a few of them admitted that they didn’t really know what ACTA was about. Law and Justice and Palikot voted for ACTA before and the Law and Justice still votes for it in the European Parliament. Besides, I don’t think they really know what these masks mean – Palikot hates all catholics, yet he wears a mask of one, lol. Hypocrites. All of them. Remember, remember…
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Totally Epic