Poland, ACTA, and “Blackmail” Protesting
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By awarding its 2011 Person of the Year award to “the protester,” Time magazine recognized that last year was a very eventful one for world events. Whether you’re talking about the Arab Spring, the Occupy protests, or something else, there was a surge of democratic movements in which we heard voices of people all over the world. “The protester” is keeping busy this year too, by rallying en masse against SOPA and PIPA, and apparently on Monday in Poland against the government’s plan to sign onto the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
What really catches my eye in this article is how it pits the protestors against the government, as if they weren’t all part of the same democratic body trying to govern itself in the best way possible. Of course, those protesting the signing of ACTA don’t speak for all the Polish constituents to which the government is accountable. The protestors have their opinions, but copyright holders whose interests aren’t being adequately protected under current law might have different opinions, and the government should consider all of them when making decisions. It’s not surprising that a government could consider all these interests and then decide to go ahead and sign ACTA anyway, but what is surprising is Poland’s Prime Minister saying that it wouldn’t “give in” to the protestors and that it wouldn’t make “concessions to brutal blackmail.” The protestors have a legitimate opinion too, but does voicing it in this way (as opposed to maybe in a formal hearing) make it “blackmail?”
The conflicting interests are partly a result of a problem, which in oversimplified terms, is about the impact the Internet is having on copyrighted content-producing industries. If the advantage of the Internet is that it allows us to instantly share information around the world, its bane to many industries is that it lets us share their content with little or no accountability. If I, you, or someone else decides to upload a video clip onto YouTube, is there a presumption that it doesn’t violate any copyrights? If Google’s ContentID has automatically targeted the clip as infringing upon a copyright, does the uploader have to fight against that and copyright holders to prove the clip is permissible under fair use? What I’m getting at is that it’s hard to defend your rights under today’s system, and arguably we haven’t yet found a workable solution to this problem. The infinite reproducibility of digital files creates a heavy burden on copyright holders to adequately enforce their rights online, but also the expense of our legal system makes it so individuals are unlikely to respond to challenges from copyrighted content industries. Overcoming a copyright infringement/non-infringement presumption falls on someone.
Protestors are arguing that provisions of ACTA, if enacted, would shift presumptions so far against the people and in favor of copyright holders that it would create an environment of surveillance that invades the peoples’ fundamental rights. When I first read about how ACTA could invade rights so important that they’re fundamental, I was taken aback by the rhetoric. It’s a legitimate concern generally, but I’m not convinced that it’s a concern specifically with ACTA. Protestors are saying that signing onto ACTA will reduce the people’s right to digital privacy by strengthening the power of copyright holders to survey for infringement, but let’s look to the actual language of ACTA. In Section 5, Article 27, Paragraph 2, ACTA says the enforcement procedures shall be implemented in a manner consistent with the adopting country’s law, preserving fundamental principles such as freedom of expression, fair process, and privacy. By that language, wouldn’t any changes in Polish digital privacy be because of changes in Poland’s laws regarding privacy and not because ACTA imposed lesser standards? This is a subtle distinction, but I think it’s an important one.
Another big criticism of ACTA is that the negotiations to create and amend its provisions happen behind closed doors. It’s argued that writing statutory language behind closed doors allows fewer to participate (ideally fewer participants doesn’t mean limited representation of interests) and for the process to finish quickly. Yes, allowing for broader participation would slow down the process because many more voices would have to be heard, but it also makes the product more democratically legitimate.
Sensing that their government signing onto ACTA will mean their interests will be given less weight than the interests of the more economically powerful copyrighted media industries, some people of Poland are protesting. I’m reminded of a lesson learned from one of my favorite books, Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael. If you’re unhappy with something and wish to change it, you don’t get very far by only pointing out that someone else’s solution to a problem is flawed. Of course people should fight to defend their digital rights, but protesting the signing of ACTA might only preserve the status quo regarding copyright protection, one in which the copyrighted content industries claim their interests aren’t protected. Even if the Polish protests are successful in shifting momentum in regards to their country’s support of ACTA, the underlying problem of balancing everybody’s interests remains and will surface again. How do we go forward?
The thing about the ACTA is it puts the pressure on ISPs to act as police about the content going through their pipes, and it can and will lead to much stricter censorship on the web that limites user-generated content. It happened to television and it probably will happen to the internet if the treaty goes through. It's just much more easier for an ISP to prevent user-content and get revenue from businesses that pay them to have their content on the web.
Oh and the ACTA allows the FBI to seize your computer any time they want, on suspicion alone.
I'm from Poland, I've been to the protests.
Government did everything wrong with ACTA in Poland. Non-government organisations asked the gov to see the ACTA draft since it was first known that we are negotiating it. Government said it's secret.
That alone is IMHO stupid. Why on earth should law be prepared in secrecy? WTF?
Then, a few months later Wikileaks leaked ACTA draft. People like Piotr Waglewski (renowned Polish intelectual property lawyer) had concerns with it, but government did not allowed any consultations with public.
Now, government signed the ACTA, had'nt informed public opinion about it clearly, and lied a few times (like when Donald Tusk said signing ACTA don't change a thing, because it needs to be ratified, and anyway all Polish law is in accordance with ACTA already). It's not true – some laws need to change, and ratification is more or less automatic, and menawhile all new Polish law need to be designed with ACTA in mind, even if we never ratify the act.
People wanted public debate about ACTA, there were 15 000 people manifestation in Cracow, and smaller in othe Polish cities, and still government signed it, after secret negotiation for 3 years, without debate, without trying to persuade people to government point.
Donald Tusk will lose next elections over this. People are infuriated about such clear "I don't care about your opinion" message. I'm infuriated, my freinds also.
BTW ACTA has 2 parts – regarding national law, and EU law. The EU part was decided by the EU parliament to be in conflict with european cart of basic laws. It all is not as obvious as you make it to be, and certainly secret negotiations makes it so much worse for public opinion to accept. Democracy doesn't work that way.
Don't hide the law from the public opinion!
BTW, when last week on commision in Polish parliament voted over ACTA, and made a note to the government not to sign it without consultations, USA ambassador had the nerves to call Polish PM, and ask why it had voted that way, why some politics from government party was absent, why was this note voted.
This is not the way to gain allies, USA. This is the way to make enemies out of your friends, and all that over a few big Hollywood and music producers? Wake up.
When I was reading about ACTA negotiations happening behind closed doors, it reminded me of how this happened with the Basel Accords, which set out international regulations for the world's capital markets. With Basel, the argument was that the financial world changes so much and so quickly that any hope for regulations keeping up with it meant that the group making those regulations needed to be very efficient.
How could that be the case with copyright regulation? Is it because the technologies for infringing upon copyrights change so quickly? That's too much of a stretch in my opinion. Maybe there's another reason to justify how ACTA was created without public participation or access, but it doesn't seem like the nature of the industry demands we sacrifice democratic lawmaking procedures for the sake of efficiency.
"consistent with the adopting country’s law, preserving fundamental principles such as freedom of expression, fair process, and privacy. "
This is why countries are being forced to change their laws over acta? or Why the american government has been exposed blackmailing countries into signing?
It is MY personal opinion that any bill which has been showed to be associated with political or government corruption should instantly be scrapped and reworked.
When I read that provision in ACTA, I thought it meant that ACTA enforcement provisions would be limited by what's allowed in the adopting country's law, but this is a good point too. If the politics behind getting others to sign ACTA is strong enough, it can reach into the adopting countries' laws too and change the adopting countries' laws.
However, it seems like there would be extra hoops to jump through and more politicians must agree to the changes when we're talking about changing domestic law. Wouldn't there be more protections against strong-arming ACTA provisions into domestic law because the Polish parliament would need to vote on it?
Polish constitution (and basicaly any other country constitution) declares that international treaties are more important than constitution, then constitution, then national law. This is neccesary for international treaties to work at all, because otherways every country will interprete every international treaty differently.
Signing internationa treaty in Poland means all future law has to be consistent with this treaty. After signing a treaty it is not negotiable. Treaty is not immadietly binding (it has to be ratified after signing – which means all the law that was prior to the signing of the treaty has to be changed accordingly). This will take years, and Polish parliament can delay this almost indefinitely, if it wants.
Also – most of the ACTA treaty is in the EU law competences, not Polish national law, and there are different processes to incorporate ACTA to this law.
All in all – ACTA is not binding in Poland yet, may not be binding in Poland in the part that EU will vote on, but neverthless, because we signed it, any NEW Polish law need to be designed to be compatible with ACTA. So we already are are constrained by this act.
I feel bad for the small business internet service providers. They are all going to be shut down
Good ending point. Says exactly what I think about the U.S. OPEN Act in the Senate. It addresses both sides well, and private individuals and tech companies could submit markup, allowing for people to help adopt it to make sure privacy and freedom wasn't infringed. A similar lesson might be appliable to international trade agreements on intellectual property rights.
Every bad decision will bring about results that eventually will determine the best path.
Personally, I think copyright must be changed to offer everyone an incentive to innovate and not censorship for the benefit of the few.
in my opinion- terms like "copyrights" shouldn't exist in the web. Open source is the natural way – this is how we get to this point, and this is how we'll go forward.
You entirely miss the point. The weaselly underhanded process through which this was brought about is unacceptable even if the agreement were as begnign as you purport it to be.
Also, it is yet another instance of Obama egregiously exceeding his authority’s constitutional limits
Well, let's dispell some things: this 'blackmail' part reffered to the Anonymus group thretening with 'disclosure of the important data on the Polish politicians' obtained by hacking government computers. Therefore I'd this was a correct wording which does not mean that our (and not only ours, yours to if you happen to live in Europe, N. America, Japan or Australia) govermnent purposefuly ignored democratic procedures and the will of the people.
The Politics of the world are suprised seeing our organization, they want to analize our movement let them see us,it is time to march forward against opressive regulation they create, Acta is just the begining I have already stated my goals its time to make our wishes known,We are the leaders of this organized movement each of one leads others in theire own field our weapons are what we create , …THIS IS OUR REVOLUTION THE INTERNET IS OUR DOMAIN AND THEY ARE OUR GUESTS, Because we work in our lifes for them giving all we got…We deserve our own world the place we are more powerfull , our beloved world our beloved society this is the begining watch us. The Freedom we gained they will not take away from us it is to late, its theire own fault for not seeing us abandoning, now they have to negotiate a peace if they plan to survive. Because they are guests here they should know how to act when you visit a foreign land its best to show respect and be polite, THE POLITITIANS BE POLITE AND WE WILL LET YOU SEE OUR GOAL BE AMAZED FOR THIS IS MERELLY A BEGINING LOOK CLOSELLY WE PRESENT A FUTURE WORLD A SEED OF A NEW CIVILISATION THAT WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO YOU'RE OWN WORLD BUT ONLY ON OUR OWN TERMS BECAUSE ITS A DIFFERENT WORLD CREATED FROM THE THINGS THAT EITHER WAY IS NO VALUE TO YOU CORPORATIONS WHAT WE TAKE HAS NO MONETARY VALUE THEREFORE WAGING WARS FOR IT WON'T BE A GOOD FINANCIAL STRATEGY OBSERVE WE ARE HERE TO STAY.
SOPA, PIPA and ACTAA these words are known to anyone that surfs the net, these laws abused could allow companies and institutions to censor the web. That's why its a good thing people didn't lay arms and are prepaired to fight this war..Two laws SOPA AND PIPA apear to be dead but the remaining one may still do damage…First of all Goverments and companies do not have any right to block everythi…ng blindly to censor the internet according to theire ambitions both sides should be treaten equal…ly they should create a list of multimedia content that may be distributed legally like older movies, or music this list should be updated every year allowing people to share stuff freely without imposing restrictions on our freedoms. This anti piracy campaign might actually be targeted not to thes……e that steal theire stuff but to these that share stuff lke anime or movies from different countries. Closing our worlds and views in hermetic structure we will not go back to middle ages to be lured into wars based on racism ideologie. IF AACTA means we will not be able to share any anime's because I live in Poland and not in USA than that means AACTA will have to go down in the same way SOPA AND PIPA DID. The Copy right holders must understand the dynamics of this new society we create, Goverments and capital institutions cannot deprive our means especially if its not even economically justified because most companies make money only on new things or some works are meant to be borrow and uploaded on different sites because thats the best marketing stategy and the most easier way to open new markets without engading in a costly and usseless marketing campaigns that wouldn't be able to lure people to which this work is adressed. Therefore Prohibition is a stupid law,by creating open indexes with multimedia works which are allowed to be distributed online by people law enforcment would act more effeciently targeting only these that hit the media corporations financially….Finally there should be emphatism made by the copy holders and creators to help people create theire own multimedia content that could be distributed by these means giving both suides reasons to joy, mutual resopect and even co-operation in creating multimedia content (anime for example) which could even promote buisness or institutions or comrcial movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWoiKtQVn2E See for yourself that we the users of the net are able to create content that can even rival official releases and by sharing these with each other freely we may prevent piracy that hurts big media corporations and having them give some of theire material freely to us, while not encuring financial loss this agrement would curb piracy more effectivelly than any legislation Any global legislation targeted at protecting copy rights in the web should understand the dynamics of this media tools. Creators and authors should divide theire works in few categories: 1) Works that are meant for commercial use (Movies,Exclusive programing, shows , etc) 2) Works that are meant for public use (Movies that are adaptations of books for example or documents) 3) Works that are meant… to be catered to fans (anime,shows specific shows like small vile or startrek…Babylon, mini historical dramas) 4) Works of trash category (everything that is older than 6 years for example which cannot produce profit) 5) Works in public domain All categories except the first one should be allowed for sharing on the net and upload on video storing sides where authors could add ads to these uploads and profit from such releases …The first category should neverheless be protected ruthlessly. Of course these categories don't have to be exactly the way I described as some Historical drama's or fan material , anime might be considered belonging to the first category it depends on the author of the work ^^ Zobacz więcej Blaze Master Mysterium of the Universe (2010) Audio-book http://www.youtube.com Blaze Master Mysterium of the Universe created in 2010 you can download the audio version on (in a far better quality) : http://www.2shared.com/audio/CrDH90a
…and returning to the more logical part of this discusion, I agree with Anon on the copy rights issue, what does it protect in the web ? Acta like both Sopa and Pipa are laws that protect a small Hollywood minority ? and what about us ? What about us Polish fans of anime lets use Shakugan No Shana as an example in USA we have this show licensed by FUNIMATION and FUNIMATION dosen't operate in POLAND now FUNIMATION released the third season on theire you tube channel legally but still I cannot watch it because I live in Poland not in America, Since Funimation allows the show to be streamed on theire sites adleast the subbed version it would mean it agrees for people to watch it both on You Tube and theire own streaming sites however this privelage is only avaible for the viewers in US why ? Why not make shows like Shakugan No Shana avaible to the entire world not just to people that do buisness with Funimation since the show is already streamed on its services. The same questions can be asked about any other movie or cartoon or music, also there are countries mostly in africa that can only watch these kinda shows via You Tube or downloading them there is no market and some of these viewers might not even be able to buy an official DVD despite liking the show. On the other hand not many movie industries can rival with hollywood and release movies on DVD however subbed versions of some Polish movies are avaible on the site or in torents or other illegall uploads. Genuially good camvids are a rarity its hard to find a reasanably good camvid movie online so most people wait before its releassed on DVD to upload it therefore Hollywood gets to make adleast billions of dolars on a good movie before it gets stolen
and puted online. So my question is who looses more if Acta is passed ? The pirates will find a way to operate even if they had to hand the dvd to each other for making copies and passing them along . Its not a problem, the problem is when someone uploads a Polish movie and the Hollywoods orders it to be taken down, even if its done by the Polish movie company that owns it if Holly wood will want it to be taken down the law enforcment will take it down, this creates a situation where everyone will have to pay companies to use the internet or post a movie, we will have to pay fee's for our own stuff….also this Idea can be expanded into all fields because Acta is a law that will force all the countries of the world to pay taxes to US COMPANIES a copy rights fee for producing theire merchandise because if the US INDUSTRY WILL HAVE GOOD LAWYERS THAN THE COURTS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE EVERYTHING A TRADEMARK BELONGING TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, or a patent of these companies in fact Poland users might get sued for the very fact of using the INTERNET BECAUSE IT TOO CAN BE CONSIDERED AN US PATENT !
This is the real danger Acta produces and the real scam some lobbyists are trying to pull on us ! That's why Acta has to be burned and the people who created it arrested for using illegal economical tacticts, for trying to monopolize the world's industry
Ok to make it easier to understand , in my opinion most people don't understand the Acta's true nature the danger lies exactly in these paragraphs most people use to defend the treaty. Let's not make any mistakes we aren't living in a good wonderfull utopia but in a world where illegall market practices or dirty tricks are a common matter and Acta is one of them. I used the Example of the Japanese Show Shakugan No Shana to show "copy right" material that might be censored by media companies, lets say Warner Brothers sued StudioS Shaft(The studio that made Shakugan No Shana) over certain elements used in the show that it finds similiar to one of its productions or claims are similiar and therefore the show constitutes a counterfeit of theire own material ? Who would win ? The tiny or medium sized Japanese studio Shaft ? or an enormous media corporation Warner Brothers , who would have more convincing lawyers and more economical pressure ?Now we all know Shakugan No Shana belongs to Studio Shaft its theire material but that dosen't have to mean Studio Shaft will get cleared of the charges in fact the Ceo of Shaft might get arrested and the studio's tools confiscated by the law enforcment because "they violated Copy right" Acta actually makes it possible because Warner Brothers posses an economical advantage. See how easilly it allows any major US Media company to censor the web or even remove regional movie makers, the very same can under the Acta be made in other fields like medical or farming industry motor industries etc. What can a huge company like Warner Brothers do as well to Shaft it can send a letter ordering the Ceo of Shaft to sell the company to Warner Brothers for cents blackmailing it into making an economically bad move because if they won't comply Warner Brothers can shut them down legally, face it no one could oppose it…Now my intention intention isn't to offend the Warner Brothers this is just a hypotheticall situation that will most likelly never happened but could happen if Acta passed, I believe if you start thinking deep you'll find out that every small venture may be effectivelly blackmailed by the use of the provisions written by the Acta, in fact the prospect of invigiliation may be used against us to black mail us into paying fee's for whatever we do posts or eat, this is a serious issue that might be a reality by 10 or 20 years if Acta gets passed thats why its important to protest against it and if possible negotiate true agreemnts , Acta is a trojan hourse, under the pretext of protection it will allow big companies to blackmail small companies and put an effective censor tape on all forms of media.
Furthemore interesting for me is the timing of all these legislations and US actions, I wanna know what is the true objective of these laws ? are there other laws like that beeing prepaired as we speak ? Who knows its might even be a puzzle each of these pieces seems harmless, Sopa , PIPA or ACTA wouldn't cause damage alone would they ? But what do we have if we combine these laws together ? what is the meaning behind the FBI prepairing measures to spy on us on Facebook ? These 40 or more arrests before the said laws even got officially adopted ? These are prepairations beeing made , but for what ? I love to speculate and Im a bit of Science-Fiction writer read my Blaze Master Mysterium of the Universe or Galaxia The stories of Illusion its on the net free, tell me what you think. These laws reminds me of this book burning campaigns in Nazi Germany just prior to the second World War , am I going to far ? if I say the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS PREPAIRING A III WORLD WAR ? or adleast someone in American establishment wishes to do it, even by means of Coupe Etat ,seems far-fetched ? But than again read it slowly analize the information take you're time with getting ackquited with all the fact and material avaible, and answer yourself don't you think that you're country is beeing pushed into starting an world conflict ? Would you the Citizens of America take responsibility and sacrifice youre life because of some system whores lust and greed ? Lets hope this all is just my fantasy I wouldn't mind beeing laughted out by you, wouldn't mind if it was just my fantasy as long as it really is just my fantasy !! But what if I just said the truth ? than we need to start taking these matters more seriously !!! NOT JUST AS A MERE TREATIES BUT AN ELABORATE CONSPIRACY, THIS IS A TERROR FROM WITHIN AMERICA ITSELF THE FOURTH COLLUMN BEWARE
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checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with
the same comment. Is there any way you can remove people from that service?
Appreciate it!
Greetings! This is my first visit to your blog!
We are a group of volunteers and starting a new initiative in a community in the same niche.
Your blog provided us useful information to work on. You have done a extraordinary job!
Hello there! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you
using for this site? I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve
had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be fantastic if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
Howdy! This post could not be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my previous room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this post to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read. Many thanks for sharing!
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?
Today, I went to the beach front with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell someone!
Yesterday, while I was at work, my sister stole my iPad and tested to see if it can survive a forty foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My apple ipad is now destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is completely off topic but I had to share it with someone!
I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of your site? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
Hi there, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam remarks? If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can recommend? I get so much lately it’s driving me crazy so any help is very much appreciated.
This design is spectacular! You certainly know how to keep a reader entertained.
Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my
own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Excellent job.
I really enjoyed what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it.
Too cool!
I’m really enjoying the design and layout of your blog. It’s a very
easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me
to come here and visit more often. Did you hire out a designer to create your theme?
Outstanding work!
Hey there! I could have sworn I’ve been to this website before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me.
Nonetheless, I’m definitely delighted I found it and I’ll be bookmarking and checking back often!
Hello there! Would you mind if I share your blog with my facebook group?
There’s a lot of people that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Cheers
Hello, I think your blog might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your website in Safari, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, fantastic blog!
Wonderful blog! I found it while searching on Yahoo News. Do you have any tips on how to get listed in Yahoo News? I’ve been trying for a while but I
never seem to get there! Appreciate it
Hey! This is kind of off topic but I need some help from an established blog.
Is it difficult to set up your own blog? I’m not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty fast. I’m thinking about making my own but I’m not sure where to start. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Cheers
Greetings! Quick question that’s completely off topic.
Do you know how to make your site mobile friendly?
My blog looks weird when viewing from my apple iphone. I’m trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able to resolve this issue. If you have any suggestions, please share. Thank you!
I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your blogs really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your
website to come back down the road. Cheers
I love your blog.. very nice colors & theme.
Did you design this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you?
Plz answer back as I’m looking to construct my own blog and would like to find out where u got this from. thanks a lot
Whoa! This blog looks exactly like my old one! It’s on a completely
different topic but it has pretty much the same page layout and design.
Outstanding choice of colors!
Hi there just wanted to give you a brief heads
up and let you know a few of the images aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why but I think its a linking
issue. I’ve tried it in two different browsers and both show the same outcome.
Howdy are using WordPress for your blog platform? I’m new to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and create my own. Do you need any coding expertise to make your own blog? Any help would be really appreciated!
Whats up this is kind of of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML. I’m starting a blog
soon but have no coding expertise so I wanted to get advice
from someone with experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hey! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any issues with hackers?
My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing several weeks of hard work due to no backup.
Do you have any solutions to prevent hackers?
Hello there! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be ok. I’m undoubtedly enjoying your blog and
look forward to new updates.
Hi! Do you know if they make any plugins to protect against hackers?
I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard on.
Any recommendations?
Hello there! Do you know if they make any plugins to assist with SEO?
I’m trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very good success.
If you know of any please share. Thanks!
I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own weblog and was curious what all is required to get set up? I’m assuming having a
blog like yours would cost a pretty penny? I’m not very internet savvy so I’m not 100% positive. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks
Hmm is anyone else experiencing problems with the images on this blog loading? I’m trying to determine if its a problem on my end or if it’s the blog. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I’m not sure why but this weblog is loading extremely slow for me. Is anyone else having this problem or is it a issue on my end? I’ll check back later and see if the problem still exists.
Heya! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new apple iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the excellent work!
Wow that was strange. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say fantastic blog!
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