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 Your SOPA and PIPA Crash CoursePosted on Jan 18, 2012
With big corporate hitters on both sides of the issue slugging it out over SOPA and PIPA—two bills that would place Internet censorship capabilities in the hands of the entertainment industry—the legislation is losing some congressional support. Simple, articulate videos like this one are helping to make it happen. —ARK PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
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By sabrina105, January 19, 2012 at 7:57 pm Link to this comment
Sorry Hollywood, it’s your turn deal with the implications of the information age. Look at it this way. We cannot let misguided devotion to the archaic forms (broadcast, cable, theatrical, print, audio, visual) you rely upon for never ending royalties to impede the people from realizing the full benefits of open, global communications. The old media industry has increased reliance on computing/networking to create, distribute, and broadcast visual fantasy, reducing production costs and increasing their profits, and as usual the industry must rob the people of the full benefit of our amazing and collective technological achievements.
Report thisAdditionally, in these times of political turmoil and crisis issues of a global scale we must remain vigilant guardians of the future as the profiteers of the past must do all they can to ensure their complete control of the media, even as all forms of traditional media are supplanted by our Internet-enabled (and vastly more reliable and efficient) crowd-sourced news and information. Hence, SOPA & PIPA, both completely unnecessary.
What about the exalted free market? Don’t both of these laws fly in the face of the idealized free-market?
By Blacheart, January 19, 2012 at 6:52 pm Link to this comment
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@thethirdman
Gym, I’m guessing you don’t have a job in the
entertainment industry. In fact, it’s likely that you don’t
have job at all.
You probably don’t make anything of enough value
that someone would want to steal it you probably
fritter your days enjoying the work of other people,
and thinking you’re part of some “scene”.
Let’s see how you feel when you have something to
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By thethirdman, January 19, 2012 at 5:49 am Link to this comment
Blackheart, I’m guessing you’re over 50.
Get real man. America was built on piracy. Whether it was the theft of resources
or the outright theft of patents and inventions, Americans have rarely had a
problem taking. One could argue that piracy contributes to the flourishing of
creative ideas as protected material is being built upon in new and interesting
ways. As you can see from the video, this is not simply about stealing music from
Napster. And it has nothing to do with stealing your neighbor’s tomatoes.
Also, it’s not the “thieves” who endanger internet freedom, it’s most certainly the
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By marian griffith, January 19, 2012 at 2:19 am Link to this comment
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@blackheart
It would be wrong to vilefy the big music and movie entertainment corporastions.
Except that they have a trackrecord of using any tool, stretching its applicability to its limits and then use it as a sledgehammer to produce as much carnage as possible under the assumption that it will scare other offenders into behaving.
If you honestly believe that these companies will not use these laws as a blunt object to try and beat everybody into submission you have not been paying much attention these past ten years. They already did it with laws that were worded much more restricted by stretching the interpretation and see how far they could get with it (hint: there was practically no legal backlash to the practise from the side of lawyers, judges or government who all seemed to believe it is perfectly normal to demand millions worth of damages for sharing a couple of hundred songs, from somebody who in all likelyhood did not even do the sharing to begin with).
These new laws are written for, and by, these corporations and essentially give them unlimited freedom to shut down any site they want; with almost no chance of appeal from the side of the sites they set their sights on. And I don’t think I am cynical if I say that they will abuse this freedom to its maximum extent. After all they have been doing just that for decades (since the invention of the tape recorder).
Report thisBy Jil Jennewein, January 18, 2012 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment
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Land of the FREE! We the people! Do NOT take away our rights! Uphold the constitution!
Report thisBy Blackheart, January 18, 2012 at 12:27 pm Link to this comment
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While the potential for abuse of PIPA/SOPA is a legitimate concern, vilifying the
film industry isn’t a legitimate tactic to use against them.
The entertainment industries are dealing with an economic tsunami called piracy.
If consumers were to steal tires or flashlights or tomatoes the way they steal
movies and music, you can bet there would a far greater public and gov’t outcry.
Tomatoes may “want to be free”, but it costs somebody a whole lot of scratch to
grow them. If you think they are too expensive, don’t buy them, but using that as
a rationale for stealing tomatoes just makes you a garden-variety thief.
It’s the thieves who endanger internet freedom, not the entertainment industry.
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