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01-15-2012, 07:17 PM | #1 |
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Has anyone seen this?? Found it on CL.
about > SOPA Corporations whose lobbyists drafted SOPA and PIPA want the ability to block you from reaching any web site they feel hurts their profits -- without due process, or review in any court -- by hijacking DNS (!) and censoring search results. Hoping you won't notice until it's too late, Congress is preparing to give them that right. For example, Monster Cable (who brought "Monster Park" to 49er fans) considers craigslist a "rogue site" for takedown under PIPA - they want to prevent YOU from selling YOUR unwanted cables, by removing craigslist from the Internet entirely (reddit), so they can increase their sales of new cables! Many other "rights holders" want to be able to do the same. (Boycott anyone? There's an app for that.) SOPA/PIPA authors and supporters insist they're only fighting "piracy," but Internet Engineers understand that this is an attempt to impose China-style government control over our public Internet. Hmmm, who should we believe? Let Congress know you OPPOSE H.R. 3261 "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and S. 968 "Protect IP Act" (PIPA):
Opponents of SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX) Where does your Member of Congress stand on SOPA? (Project SOPA Opera) SOPA and PIPA Are Too Dangerous To Revise, They Must Be Killed Entirely Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass - they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from corporations experts say are attempting to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet -- recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora's jar of "chilling effects" and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences. There is still time to be heard. Congress is starting to backpedal on this job-killing, anti-American nonsense, and the Obama administration has weighed in against these bills as drafted, but SOPA/PIPA cannot be fixed or revised -- they must be killed altogether. Sen Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep Ron Wyden (D-OR) are championing an alternative to SOPA/PIPA called Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) that focuses on cutting off payments to foreign sites dedicated to piracy, and refrains from disrupting basic Internet protocols, or threatening mainstream US sites like craigslist. Tim O'Reilly, a publisher who is himself subject to piracy, asks whether piracy is even a problem, and whether there is even a legitimate need for any of these bills. Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting:
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01-15-2012, 08:16 PM | #2 |
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Very Intresting read. No wonder the world is so screwed up.
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01-15-2012, 09:03 PM | #3 |
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first the ocean now the internet. Hurry up 12/22/12.
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01-16-2012, 09:06 AM | #4 |
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Yes, this has been in the works now for a while and it is VERY real. Another case of big money trying to control as much as they can. This is a big battle in the 'anti-piracy' war. It is another lame attempt at trying to stop piracy. It will ruin a lot of different things, like free trade on craigslist, but it WILL NOT STOP PIRACY. Vint Cerf, who was a co-creator of TCP/IP and a host of other who pretty much "fathered" the Internet are ALL against these bills. They got together and wrote a letter of opposition to congress and, what a surprise, congress doesn't care. Let the corn-holing continue.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/1690...ition-to-sopa/
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01-20-2012, 08:32 AM | #5 |
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http://www.itworld.com/243131/us-sen...sday-vote-pipa
The talking-heads in Congress might actually be listening to the people
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Quote:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ry-cars-seized "the arrests set "a terrifying precedent. If the United States can seize a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright claim, what is next?"
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