The occupy movement would be a good start — the people who arguably fight debt and financial speculation, which is another side of the same coin. Thanks Sonia for bringing this up. I think SOPA is the perfect way to stifle innovation at a time when our economy and country needs it the most.
Thank you for the introduction and summary of this topic. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Yup, and look online what happened to Go Daddy also. Does that mean that if every American were to point to some DNS servers that are in another country, then we could all effectively avoid this issue altogether? What Chaim says. I suppose this is quite what John Gilmore was talking about. The idea behind SOPA sounds unreasonable. This bill is a particular threat to New York City, and will greatly affect the up and coming tech industry.
Brad is joining Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanan and other tech industry leaders next week to testify against SOPA in front of congress. This article gives a preview of what he will say next week. If you have good contents, accept the fact that you will be going to be pirated in one way or another. If it is not the case, you will never be popular as you expected. To site a good example. Windows can be easily pirated, and windows dominated the O. If one artist become so popular today, it is because it spreads very fast thru pirating process, though not always the case.
I wrote my Congresswoman about the issue. To her credit, she did reply to me, but her response seemed completely out of touch with all of the issues outlined here. Brian, hats off for writing as it is the right thing to do.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? Get the money out and suddenly things will start to look a bit more reasonable. These acts just seem stupid and a waste. But I think there are a few other ways like focusing on developing the IPs that are overly involved with the acts of piracy and being able to shut them down that we can move around this very thing and be able to have an appropriate way to ensure that things go smoothly and can the real pirates in the process.
A well argued article. As, from what I have observed, the support for this bill tends to be founded in the assumption that pirates need to be forced to stop, instead of motivated to buy.
Small effort on my part, but my small voice joined with others to up the volume on an important issue. I must also add that one does NOT need the internet to pirate anything the entertainment industry is complaining about.
Bootlegging existed long before the internet. Which leads me to believe this is really about something else…. Incidentally, my blog is non-profit, fact-based and aimed at providing research information to the public about politics and current events. I have been scrupulous about linking and attributing original sources- far more than most sites. According to the email. According the email, a full explanation of the complaint without the identity of the complainant could be found at a linked site.
That link was not working. I was told that I was perfectly free to delete the alleged copyrighted material despite the fair use protections that should have applied and I could re-post.
However, since I have no clue where exactly the problems lies, I have no idea what to remove and what to keep. The email also adds that should I chose to repost without removing the material, my entire site could be banned and legal action could be taken. With heavy handed threats like this, is this NOT censorship? Another link found on the email. However, the information there advised me to contact legal counsel and that, should I chose to file a challenger, my personal contact information would be given to the original complainant!
Most people I know do not have the time nor the financial resources to hire a personal legal team to defend their freedom of speech. Had the original accuser contacted me directly and informed me of the offending material, I would certainly have given careful consideration to the request. Photos could be removed. Even quotes which are, in fact linked to their original sources could be summarized and paraphrased or shortened.
No problem. Copyright violation was merely the excuse to silence. SOPA and all of the alphabet soup legislation will be one step on the same path, make no mistake. SOPA will never stand a chance, except maybe picking on the little guys, at times. Sopa is just a fantasy. And what about Facebook? How are they going to control what people are going to share, if is copyrighted or not? Will they employ guardians manually scanning the posts on Facebook and Twitter in search for copyrighted content?
No matter how much damage a government might want to do to the Internet, there is a limit. The Internet is a power on its own, and unless they shut down the Internet, there is not much to do about it. Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar. Maybe you believe that the internet has always found a way around censorship and always will. Problem 7: It backs the wrong horse The entertainment business adds lots of dollars to our economy.
My publisher, O'Reilly Media , has decided to 'go dark' today as well. In doing so, we hope that we both spread awareness of what's at stake, educate our community and give citizens the ability to learn more and take action. I was heartened to see that the Online News Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors have come out against these bills.
If you'd like to read my feature on these bills, you can view a cached version here :. The 'blackout' by Wikipedia, Reddit or Boing Boing, along with many other blogs and Craigslist's prominent interstitial, are leading to greater awareness of both the content and ramifications of these bills.
From what I'm seeing and hearing here in DC, they're also leading to greater civic engagement between citizens and their representatives in Congress, I believe that would be a net benefit for both the communities of those services and the United States as a whole.
In fact, there are plenty of ways to access the site , which Wikipedia has acknowledged. It's a protest, not a total shutdown, after all. Seems Jimmy Wales thinks there's some information that should stay up, protest or no protest.
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald briefly owned a barbershop together in Paris in the '20s. The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet's development.
The world today needs political leaders who are pro-internet. We have been working with many of these folks for months on better alternatives to these current proposals.
I encourage you to learn more about these issues and tell your congressmen that you want them to be pro-internet. So far , people have liked his post. No wonder politicians are backing away from this legislation. He's been listening to speakers including Tumblr's executive vice president, Andrew McLaughlin, who's been arguing that the bill threatens free speech movements from around the world. He arguest that the universal declaration of human rights can be interpreted as guaranteeing people the right to intellectual property.
Article 27 states:. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
If we try and put aside the cynical read of the genesis of Sopa there are very significant commercial interests in controlling digital content , efforts to protect IP rights are in keeping with UDHR Art 27, all things equal.
Indeed, a government that made no effort to address widespread IP infringements would be failing in its human rights obligations on that dimension. But the problem with Sopa and a similar bill in the Senate — Pipa —isn't that it is an effort to combat online piracy. The problem is that the effort as pursued endangers a broad range of human rights enjoyment by making it harder to share and access information and speech.
It would create a powerful and unprecedented market incentive to censor user generated content. And their passage would signal very clearly to countries around the world that it is OK to sacrifice some rights in the name of some other good.
You can follow his live tweets here. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, "This is a fight to save democracy Let this be the beginning. Some blacked out their homepages, others made their entire content unavailable. Google urged users to lobby Congress before a planned Senate vote on January 24, saying Sopa "would censor the web and impose harmful regulations on American business".
The protest appears to be having an effect: political support for the Sopa appears to be waning. A prominent Republican, Florida senator Marco Rubio, came out against the proposed legislation, saying it was an "unreasonable expansion of the federal government" that would have "unintended consquences". Other Republicans pulled their support. The senators are supporters of the legislation, which now appears to be under attack from all sides.
It's a fun read. Just drag this bookmark to your browser bookmark bar: Unblock Wikipedia. Then visit any Wikipedia site, like this one , and click the bookmark. America's high schooler's thank you, Stewd. It's a House anti-piracy bill currently making its way through Congress that targets foreign websites dedicated to piracy—i.
Obviously, media companies and News Corp. I remember the days when Congress took our First Amendment seriously. How did we get this close to oppression?
I thought America was founded on principles of free speech; with this bill, our country stands for nothing. The only way to fight future oppression is with the spread of knowledge. Tell everyone you know about this bill and what it will do if passed. We may not have the lobbying power of the entertainment industry, but we do have a voice. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy.
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