I can sympathize, but the proposed solutions are like using a nuke to kill a fly. Why can't the tech industry come up with a viable solution.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought Obama said yesterday that he will not support SOPA? > > I am in between... I am for free internet, etc..., but I am sick of those > that pirate our content and make it available for download for free. Since > all of them are out of the country, we are screwed and lose revenue because > of it. The industry I am in has suffered because of stolen content now > available on all the porn tube channels. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:48 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: FW: SOPA protest: 7,000 and growing > > > http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71535.html > > SOPA protest: 7,000 and growing > By: David Saleh Rauf > January 17, 2012 12:31 PM EST > > An estimated 7,000 websites are planning to go dark Wednesday as part of a > mass protest against a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills - and > opponents of the measures say the number is likely to increase. > > A mix of watchdog groups, content creators and grass-roots activists on > Tuesday touted the planned mass Internet blackout as the largest online > "revolution" in the U.S. to date. > > The online protest is aimed squarely at lawmakers pushing the Stop Online > Piracy Act in the House and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and comes with > a message: back off the bills or face the wrath of the same Internet > community you're trying to regulate. > > > "Tomorrow will be a big day of action," said Tiffiniy Cheng, director of > fightforthefuture.org, which is organizing the blackout. "The fight will > continue until we get the final say from members of Congress that these > bills will be dropped, and we'll start from the beginning on how to balance > protection of copyright with expression online." > > Wikipedia, Reddit and Wordpress are among several sites that have already > committed to going black Wednesday. Liberal nonprofit Moveon.Org joined the > cause Monday. > > Organizers say they've confirmed most of the 7,000 sites that plan to > participate. > > "And the number is growing," Cheng said during a conference call with > reporters. "We may see some big sites too. It's not final." > > For now, though, the movement appears confined to a select group of online > heavy hitters and a variety of smaller sites that don't generate nearly as > much Web traffic, according to a list of anticipated participants posted on > SOPAStrike.com. > > During the conference call, opponents of the bills said they don't plan to > stop pressuring lawmakers until they see broad changes to the legislation. > > That includes removing domain name blocking provisions, providing clearer > definitions and doing away with what opponents call blanket protection for > intermediaries to act against suspected infringers. > > "The tech community was completely shut out of the talks when these things > were drafted," said Erik Martin, the general manager of Reddit. > "We really need to think about how we can go back and start over and have > the other side involved." > > This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 12:24 p.m. on January 17, > 2012. > -- > Larry C. Lyons > web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons > > There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has > been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding > its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false > notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowl > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345434 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
