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Hey! My name is Piotr Pietruczuk. I'm 19 going on 40, and trying really hard to not think about marriage or the future more than I have to. I was born in amazing Manhattan, New York, only to have to grow up in the less than mediocre town of Norwich, Connecticut. Regardless, I'm 100% Polish, have a younger sibling, Thomas, and a German Shephard the size of an undersized cow. I enjoy playing tennis seeing as it is one of the few sports, aside from perhaps basketball, that I can play and not embarrass myself in doing so. On that note, welcome to my overly ambitious, yet humble blog! Hopefully you will be able to indulge yourself in its content as much as I will in discovering it.

Thus, let us look into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, otherwise nefariously referred to as ACTA. While, the motions in the House of Representatives and Senate have been temporarily stalled, the same cannot be said about European legislation.

As ACTA has become an impeding issue in countries such as Poland, Slovenia, and France, people have staged numerous protests against the abomination of passing such as bill. Not only do they see it as terribly limiting their freedom of speech, but the overall functionality of the Internet would be forever altered.  
Europeans Protest Anti-Piracy Treaty

The protests being staged are perhaps some of the most significant ones that many people will ever have a chance to become a part of. The reality of it is, the governments yearn to maintain proper control over copy-write issues, and it is their duty to attain such a right. However, the ends they are attempting to utilize in order to realize their means are far too reproachable. People should unite in their noble cause of preserving the sanctity of the Internet, and everything that it stands for. For, the dark truth is, if the peoples' rights to freely publish and speak their minds is rebuked, there is no saying where the government will halt its long reigns of defoliation.