How we killed the government.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
So, for the hope of greater good, we got down the government website today. At first, attack was aimed at OSA, which is the true villain organisation. OSA, however, turned their website off themselves. So the attack had to change a little.

Basically, I don't agree with anonymous attacks. I'd say I even consider them an act of terrorism. So why did I participate?
It's a battle of 2 evils. You just have to decide, which one is worse.

I'm sure that the dear reader is aware of many downsides of hacktivism, if not, read my previous posts.
Rather, I'll concentrate on the downsides of ACTA and aforementioned OSA.

The OSA is organisation specialized in protecting rights of artists. But how? From every single CD, DVD or even an empty hard-disc you buy, OSA gets money. It may be about 1/10 of price, so it does increase the price rather heavily. And what does OSA do with the money? Well, part of it mysteriously disappears and the rest is handed out to artists within OSA. Which is only a few Czech artists. And you pay them for nothing. You buy a goddamn memory card to store your photos and you give plenty of bucks to some smuggy teenagers who play gay-pop. The financing of this half-state-owned and half-legal organisation is unknown, so the majority of the money is still nowhere to be found.

ACTA, on the other hand, wants to use private sector to be judges. That itself sounds like a terrible idea. ACTA requires your internet provider to cancel your connection if you break any law online, otherwise the IP themselves are responsible. Virtually impossible to realize. Not thought through. But that's not only thing the ACTA says. It mostly is against creation of fakes of any kind. It would prohibit generic medicine, which would have terrible effect on healthcare. Just think: if only company who invented a certain medicine can make it, it can ask whatever price it wants. It doesn't have to compete. And the more important the medicine is, more money the company can ask for. And for things to be even worse, ACTA is near it's passing. Of course bureaucracy in EU is pretty complicated, but majority of countries has signed ACTA already. Including Czech Republic. That's why the government got down.