Has anyone looked at "The OPEN act" in detail. If SOPA and PIPA and FIFA go down it's probably the next in line to get looked at after the next election. http://keepthewebopen.com/
Interesting concept, opening up the bill to online comment.
My first comment would be to change the title to The AWESOME OPEN Internet free porn Act of 2012.
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Harry Reid is "postponing" the Senate vote on PIPA and Lamar Smith will table SOPA in the House Judiciary Committee.
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Dodd blames the bills' reduced support on a slow timeline that allowed opposition to mobilize, but also on a strategy that ended up making the anti-piracy effort seem specifically about helping Hollywood. His own efforts were also limited by a law that prevents him from lobbying Congress directly within two years of leaving office.
And then, hilariously, the US Feds very publicly shut down offshore filesharing site Megaupload, complete with multiple arrests on criminal charges and seizure of their assets.
Could it really just have been a weird awkward coincidence that we were handed such a neat and public illustration that they can already do everything SOPA and PIPA are supposedly designed to accomplish?
I keep feeling like I'm missing some important aspect of it or something, because it's almost too convenient.
Better yet this comes only a month after UMG took down Megaupload's legit and legal advertisement from youtube because of... fuck you, don't question UMG's ways!
The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, copyright Comedy Central 2012
I like what you did here. Linking to copyrighted content on a website without additional comment and for your own personal gain so you could stick it to the man.
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All those people who used Megaupload for storing and sharing legitimate content are pretty much boned because their property rights are less important, I guess.
All those people who used Megaupload for storing and sharing legitimate content are pretty much boned because their property rights are less important, I guess.
The proper formulation is "All property rights are equal, but the property rights of major record labels and Hollywood studios are more equal than others."
Meanwhile, in case anyone had any lingering doubts of the fact that the MPAA engages in outright bribery and blackmail, Chris Dodd has very explicitly wiped them away with his latest tone-deaf response.
It is a shame that he will probably never face jail time for the crimes he has just publicly admitted to committing.
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also, my rep and one of my senators, the one who didn't have broken internets, responded to my email. They are both talking about not voting for it in it's present form, so yes this thing isn't over yet. Menendez said the same thing in an interview.
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So by allegedly facilitating pirates They were able to make 1/3rd what the Justice department has estimated in damages. It's almost as if people are willing to pay for easier, less controlling access, to media.
Nearly 100 Polish websites shrouded their pages in black early Tuesday to protest against Warsaw’s plan to sign a multilateral anti online piracy accord this week.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) aims to create international standards for intellectual property protection, but some groups oppose it as limiting Internet freedoms.
Poland, which joined the EU in 2004, has committed to signing ACTA on Thursday.
The Dutch Minister of Information Maxime Verhagen has decided this is not something parliament needs to debate which is fairly typical for that slimy asshole
A special rapporteur with the European Parliament quit on Friday in protest over the multinational Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that was signed by 22 European Union nations a day earlier.
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“Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications,” Special Rapporteur Kader Arif said in a statement.
ACTA is a trade agreement that is being considered by Japan, the EU, the United States, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and other countries. Like SOPA and PIPA, the treaty seeks to enforce copyright infringement laws and curtail the sale of counterfeited goods.
Arif added that the while the treaty could have major consequences on citizens’ lives, “everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter.”
“I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade,” he said.
The treaty has not been agreed upon by the European Parliament, meaning that is it not yet enacted. A debate is slated to take place in June.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Poland on Thursday to decry the bill and more demonstrated after the agreement was passed.
This part particularly gets my goat and chaps my hide:
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Furthermore, even more ridiculous is the end of that sentence: "an opponent that controls that platform." As the article makes clear, he means Google. Which shows that he still doesn't get it. First, Google didn't lead the protests. It came late to the game, after the grassroots had already taken off with this stuff and run with it. But, more to the point, contrary to what O'Leary and the MPAA seem to believe: Google does not control the internet. No one does.
It's not just tone deaf and stupid, though it is those things. It's straight up hypocrisy and bullshit. The old media is threatened by the fact that they don't have absolute control of public discourse, and as hard as they tried to keep the story quiet, people found out about it anyway:
Nice infographic by Anne Rhodes offering the history of the movie and television industry, their constant fears about changing technology, and why they are wrong about SOPA. Wil Wheaton shared it on social media and now I share it with you.
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