Information on ACTA first became public in 2007, but only after wikileaks posted a document called "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" several watchdog organizations specialized in digital rights realized the severeness and the implications. From that point on the development of the document was treated as a "state secret" and the public was refused access to the document. On the other hand the paper was freely shared with industry lobbyists. In 2009 two organizations, the EFF & Public Knowledge, were forced to drop a lawsuit where they were requesting information on the That Link paper. Today ACTA was signed by 30 states and the EU  so far. Its aim is to create an international regime for imposing civil and criminal penalties on internet piracy and counterfeiting. The problem with the document is that it is intentionally vague (signatories are left to draw up precise rules themselves). But it is potentially draconian. Infringers could be liable for the total loss of potential sales (implying that everyone who buys a pirated product would have bought the real thing). It applies to unintentional use of copyright material pressuring website owners to ensure they comply with the laws of…. who knows how many countries. It has been negotiated secretively and outside payday loans in fayetteville nc established international trade bodies (despite EU criticisms). This means it has ignored the views of other countries it will affect, chiefly emerging markets.

Most copyrights come almost exclusively with geographical restrictions and this is one of the main issues. The copyright owners deliberately (and freely) choose not to sell a product to certain countries. The main reason for this is that they want to stick to the old model of having several stages of release on different markets. The downside of this model is that some products are released much later or they never get Check Out Your URL released on a certain market. If people were able to legally purchase any content in any desirable language anywhere in the world there would be fewer "pirates" on the planet. But seriously, if i would have to wait for f.e. japanese or korean series, to be shown on ORF or to pop up in a shelve of a vienna store or at least to be available in original language(with proper subs!) on a digital store (i am allowed to shop), i can grow a long long beard in the meantime. It is about getting access to content not getting it for free. The old release system functioned back in the days when it was still necessary to deliver a physical product, but there is no more need for that and there is a benefit in not sending tons of stuff over oceans, i guess.

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I'm proud to annouce the opening of "VOR ORT" exhibition (03/10/2011) that will feature several works I have created during my artist residency at Kölnbreinsperre/Maltatal.

I'm really looking very much forward to this as it seems like I have managed to bring a lot of media that have been accompanying me over the last years (analog & digital photography, photofilm, music, vinyl, ...) together in one work that will be shown together with others, I'm also looking forward to ...

The exhibition will travel Austria over the next months, Vienna (Vertical Gallery, VERBUND will be the last stop as far as I know for those that don't make it to Kärnten this time.) - watch out for a very limited vinyl-postcard release - to be announced soon.

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"Eight artists will walk away as winners, one artist will be awarded $10,000 in grants and a feature booth at SCOPE London." Which is veeeeeeeeery nice! To cut a long story short; please VOTE HERE ... roll over the replica watches rubber stars and click as soon as you have found the ones that are right for you! thx for your help fam!!!

We are very excited to announce: The HELP FOR JAPAN "Secret Postcard" Art sale presented by Francesca von Habsburg/T-B A21, Elsa König, Elsa Okazaki and Andrew Standen-Raz.

The HELP FOR JAPAN Charity Event for the Red Cross, held on April 17th, 2011 at the Pratersauna in Vienna, will be one of the largest line-up of leading musicians, artists, fashion designers & locally based businesses seen in Vienna for a long time. 3pm till ...
The event is a natural outpouring of solidarity and Information and facts assistance from Vienna's artistic community to the victims of the catastrophic events still unfolding in Japan.



The event includes international DJs and live acts, such as Peter Kruder, Rodney Hunter, Dorian Concept, Bauchklang, Microthol and [dunkelbunt], a fashion sample sale by Wendy & Jim, Ute Ploier, Anna Aichinger, Mühlbauer and, following in the steps of the successful charity art sales held for the last 15 years at the Royal College of Art in London, HELP FOR JAPAN will also present a charity sale of original, "one-off" postcard-sized art from the following leading and emerging artists:

BEN-DAVID ANAT, OVIDIU ANTON, JOHANNA BRAUN, CANDICE BREITZ, JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER, ANETTA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKÁCOVÁ, DJ SPOOKY, THOMAS DRASCHAN, BARBARA EICHHORN, EVA ENGELBERT, CHASE ERACHI, MANFRED ERJAUTZ, KERSTIN VON GABAIN, DOROTHEE GOLZ, DANIEL HAFNER, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, FLORIAN HECKER, JEPPE HEIN, LUKAS HEISTINGER, MATTHIAS HERRMANN, JUDITH HUEMER, KATSEY, SUSANNE KLOBASSA, IVO KOCHERSCHEIDT, KARL KÜHN, MARKO LULIC, CONSTANTIN LUSER/STEFAN ARZTMANN, MAHONY, CARSTEN NICOLAI, MICHAEL NIEMETZ, IRIS NITZL, RITA NOWAK, ANNELIES OBERDANNER, ELSA OKAZAKI, JULIAN PALACZ, GERNOT PETJAK, DEREK ROBERTS, CONSTANZE RUHM, VALENTIN RUHRY, FIONA RUKSCHIO, LISA RUYTER, HANS SCHABUS, MAX SCHAFFER, EVA SCHLEGEL, yours truly SIRA ZOE SCHMID/MARKUS OBERNDORFER, ELFIE SEMOTAN, DEBORAH SENGL, NEDKO SOLAKOV, A. C. STANDEN-RAZ, ESTHER STOCKER, JUERGEN TELLER, MARTIN VESELY, BILL VIOLA, SALVATORE VIVIANO, KAY WALKOWIAK, HERWIG WEISER, ERWIN WURM, NATALIA ZALUSKA ... and Data many more!

As our beloved Morisson Club was raided by the viennese Magistrat last weekend (yes, the infamous MA2412 shut them down, because their forgotten christmas decoration blocked the emergency exit and their christmas trees have not been recycled correctly...), they have to do some structural measures.

That´s why Mash Mash! V10 (January 29, 22:00) will go down at the

Morisson Exil at Volksgarten Pavillon, 1010 Wien!

Line up stays the same, namely D.Schaerf (Beatbureau), Mista Wisdom aka Worst Messiah (Blue Flowers), Exidas (rotaug.com), Thaiman (rotaug.com/SK Invitational), Clrcdd & Gandl (rotaug.com).

See you all there!

I am proud to invite you to the opening of our groupexhibition "five directions of photography through photography" @ HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Absperggasse 27, 1100 Vienna. Tonight, 24.11.2010 - 7pm.

You will have the possibility to see different works an perspectives on the matter of photography by the "photo class" of the academy of fine arts vienna. your tour will be accompanied by "Weninger" - Rotaug's Choice of Wine - and Info good music.


Exhibition lasts until 18.12.2010 and is open from Thu - Sat, 12am - 6pm ... hope to see you there!

i'm proud to announce my single exhibition "Markus Oberndorfer - Photography & Photofilm" at Galerie Schloss Puchheim. The exhibition - on three floors - will feature photography (2006-2008) aswell as photofilm. It will open doors on 19.11.2010, 7:30pm and will last until 12.12.2010. for opening days/hours check the gallery website ... would be great to see the one or other familiar face, this especially goes out to the Upper Austrian family. no excuse this time :) looking forward.

MARKUS OBERNDORFER - PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOFILM
Opening: 19.11.2010, 7:30pm, Galerie Schloss Puchheim
Gmundner Strasse 1a, 4800 Attnang-Puchheim

Dear friends and family ... I'm going to start rolling up a little bit of our history from now on. A history that somehow started before we even realized that it would become our's too... Cause of course some of us were still shitting in the pants back then. It was the mid 80ties, that should be the beginning of a long era in Gmunden's "Freestyle Sport" and "Creative Mindz" history ...

In the first photo (1987) you will find two of those guys responsible for lots of that ... our dear long time friends Gerald Loidl (first from the left) and additional info former flatland world champion Richard Vobr (second from the left). Both part of the "BMX Team Gmunden". I sadly never met the others as far as I remember, but in the back you see another really good friend of ours, that would accompany us over the years in various shapes and forms: The Ghetto-Blaster! Blaaasting Hip-Hop into my ears from the first day I remember joining the "Sportplatz-Force" in 1994. There are lots of stories I could tell from here, but for now i just want to "HOLLAAA!" at those who cleared the way for generations to Web page follow.

And that's what all you "Skaters and BMX-freestylers" out there that enjoyed this pre-heated nest in Gmunden back then and the ever growing skatepark and freestyle sport community should do too. Hold still for a moment, think back and ... "HOLLAAAA!!!"'

Without the effort of Gerald, Rick, Mario, Rudi, ... a lot would have turned out different i suppose and maybe the one or other would have worshipped anything else but a miniramp, skateboard or bicycle. I'm writing this post, because i think it's important, to bring into our mind again, that there was a time when new ramps and obstacles were not suddenly falling from the sky. A time when we used to build those wooden ramps on our own; having the will to blog link create!  (and of course we had a ghetto blaster in 1995, what did u think?!).
I can only speak for myself, but I think I don't do any wrong by saying that a part of this possee, the various groups existing within it and the freedom we all somehow experienced together changed and shaped my life. And I also believe that this time and this place where lots of us met, was also leading some of us to what they do now ...

... being free mindz, doing whatever they do, but doing their thing, making films, taking photos, doin graphics, producing, nerding on music ... and cars of course. KEEP CREATING my friends & DO YOUR THING!!!! Thx for one part in my personal "school of life" FAM!!! And to alain silberstein replica some of our friends that got lost along the path, R.i.P ... we won't forget the time we all had together!