Internet Blacklist Bill on Fast-Track Toward Becoming Law

[katty]

more:

http://uprisingradio.org/home/2011/11/21/internet-blacklist-bill-on-fast-track-toward-becoming-law/

Internet piracy has not ceased to boil the blood of entertainment industry heavy weights since Napster allowed nominally savvy users to widely share music online without a penny going back to major record labels. The distributors of movies and music largely located in Hollywood have not adapted to the new age of information sharing, and instead continue to lobby for legislation to restrict the ability for internet users to consume their content online for free. Two bills under consideration in the House and the Senate are born of this tension between new media and old, the better known is the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. SOPA, introduced by Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, ostensibly targets foreign “rogue” sites that distribute US content in China and elsewhere. US companies have few effective legal options to regulate foreign practices. SOPA would allow extrajudicial action if an Intellectual Property rightsholder claims a website is infringing on a copyright. Without a hearing before a judge or a court order, payment processors for websites and advertisers could be given 5 days to stop business with the alleged “rogue” website.

[abelenkpe]

1. Bad news. Needs to be stopped. nt

[katty]

2. nothing OK about this-nothing-it's the last freedom-it's more

for government spy-ops on citizens, yeah there is the revenue and continual infringement issues, but copyright/trademark holders have been dealing with those since forever-nothing new.

[zalinda]

4. There are more people selling $5 DVD's

on the sidewalks in the cities than are watching stuff on line. Huge tractor trailer loads of movies come in every day from China, but nothing seems to be done about it, because it's not the low hanging fruit.

zalinda

Oh, and these DVD's are showing up on military bases too. I know someone who gave her grandchildren all the brand new movies for Christmas on year and some had just started playing in the theaters. She works for Blackwater.

[katty]

5. yes, indeed--this is an orwellian, freaked out government

with the freedom of the internet...a smokescreen for greater control-ha! some smokescreen, it's so obvious!

[PoliticAverse]

3. This is bad. Very bad. n/t

[katty]

6. Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/about

-check it out

[NorthCarolina]

7. It will undoubtedly pass, and I'll bet "copyright infringement" is only the "excuse"

and that the real unspoken impetus behind this legislation is a far more dubious assault on freedom.

[katty]

8. o of course they will hang it on copyright-it's convenient and

that excuse is bullcrap--just holding a copyright or a trademark (big co's, small, individuals, et al) implies you will always have to protect/defend it. It's ridiculous.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. "Every day the terrorists think about ways to destroy this country. AND SO DO WE."

-Pres. George W. Bush