You know ACTA and related topics have reached the mainstream when the German news show devotes a segment of several minutes(!) to ACTA, complete with background information about the sleazy backroom dealings, and the various political sunday talk shows debate controversially about it, as well. In a round of five 60-plus aged people, only one defenced ACTA; the rest was sceptic or dead against it.

The several tens of thousands of people who walked the streets of Germany yesterday (I couldn't; I am ill) really managed to stir up Germany's political landscape. This. is. awesome.

Now if only the population at large would understand the inherent differences between physical counterfeiting, physical theft, and copyright infrigement.

That's where we all come in: Inform people about the background and actual issues. Now, more than ever, there's a chance that they will be willing to listen.