Protest against Acta hypocritical

In recent days up to 50,000 people have demonstrated against the Anti-Counterfeit Trading Agreement (Acta). Informatics professor Wojciech Cellary condemns their actions in the left-liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza: "They are well educated and have accumulated considerable knowledge at university. ... All with the aim of selling that knowledge in the form of digital products and services and living on the money they earn from this. But they will only receive the money they are due if people are made to pay for Internet content. Because today the Internet is the main platform for selling knowledge and creative achievements. But they don't want this. They want all the content to be free of charge because they have no money to pay for it. But things can't go on like this. You can't expect to earn your money through your knowledge and creativity on the Internet yet at the same time demand that the knowledge and creative achievements of others be available for free. This is a blatant contradiction!"

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