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Net Strike Against Software Patents

We can show our concern about new assaults on freedom and democracy by physical presence in Brussels and national capitals as well as by more or less gently blocking access to webpages in a concerted manner at certain times. Last summer 3800 sites participated. The next dates are 2004/05/09-14 during national events after the Day of Europe and 2004/06/08-13 during the elections to the European Parliament.

introduction

see also http://demo.ffii.org

The FFII has organized online demonstrations against software patents in 2003 and will need to organise them again in 2004. We want you to replace the title page of your project's site with a protest page against software patents (for examples see below) during 2004/04/09-15, 2004/05/09-15 and 2004/06/09-13. If you don't want to block access to your site you can for example put a small link on the protest page as seen in one of the examples.

With software patents many sites running/serving possibly patent infringing software have to go offline sooner or later. So why not demonstrate this effect before it's too late?

It might be a good idea to include a link to the Petition and Call for Action in your demo web page, so that we can use the opportunity to increase the number of supporters. Much of the basic introductory information could be on your site, so as to avoid overloading of ffii.org. Feel free to copy the title page of swpat.ffii.org onto your demo page or to mirror the site or part of it, if you like.

Annotated Links

->Participating Sites 2004
Sites which have already registered their participation in the strikes of April and May 2004
->http://aktiv.ffii.org/?l=en&f=netstrike
Form for registering participation in Netstrike
->FFII Online Demo
Instructions for participation in online demo
->Local Action Days 2004/05/08-12
FFII and partners hope to organise a series of events in capitals of EU member states and elsewhere in order to raise awareness about the secret decisionmaking on software patents by national ministerial bureaucrats in the EU Council. The events will take part during the days from the weekend of May 8-9, including "Day of Europe" 9, up to the following Wednesday 12. They will be accompanied by a net strike.
->FFII Demo Site
Introduction to Demos and related FFII Events in Brussels and elsewhere
->Brussels EP Software Patent Events 2004/04/14-5
Schedule of demo, conference and other events conducted in the European Parliament
->Mirror of sites 2003/08
Mirrors of websites that participated in August 2003
->Mirror of sites 2003/08
Mirrors of websites that participated in August 2003
->demo.en.html
Sample page that could be used to replace another web page.
->intro.de.html
Another variation, more entertaining, more complicated, in German
->Gibus Web Site - Grève en ligne contre les brevets logiciels
Well designed, with a nice banner.
->http://www.bxlug.be
Very informative, in French
->Fabrizio Tarizzo: Protesta online contro la brevettabilità del software
informative page in Italian
->http://www.itanguy.org/
Due to software patents, this website is not running any more
->http://bh.udev.org/
Benjamin Henrion's homepage implements yet another variant in black.
->http://www.opensides.be/
Another variant, in French
->http://www.freepascal.org/fpc_noswpat.html
This one will be used at http://www.freepascal.org.
->Aug 27 Demonstrations against EU Software Patent Plans
The Proposal for a software patent directive, which will be submitted to the European Parliament for plenary debate and subsequent decision on September 1st, is giving rise to another wave of protests. Various groups in Belgium and elsewhere are mobilising for a rally in Brussels on August 27th and are calling on web administrators to temporarily block their web sites.

Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help

?!?How you can help us stop Software Patents
?!?Prepare a simple introductory page on software patents to put on each site that participates.
We don't want masses of people to be redirected immediately to an ffii site. It is better if most of the explaining is done on the original site and only some optional links go out.
?!?Organise the Netstrike through the FFII Participation System
see Participation System

Wikis are not really effective for this task. Let people register in the ffii supporter database, so that there is always an upto date list of participating pages whose participants can be alerted.

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