Photo Gallery Protesting against ACTA
Hundreds of thousands of people recently demonstrated across Europe against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Here, a demonstration in Berlin on Feb. 11.
The opposition to ACTA has taken the continent's politicians by surprise. The public resistance prompted German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who had initially supported ACTA within the cabinet, to reverse her position.
An anti-ACTA demonstration in Berlin. The lack of clarity in ACTA has awakened the suspicions of the Internet community.
About 100,000 people, most of them young, demonstrated for a free Internet on Saturday, Feb. 11, in more than 50 German cities. This protest took place in Munich.
Protests took place across Europe, including Sofia, Bulgaria. The Guys Fawkes masks are a symbol of the Anonymous movement.