Texas Rep Lamar Smith said he will try to resurrect this in the spring in the House.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:04 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: SOPA protest: 7,000 and growing SOPA is the House bill. Sen Leahy is apparently still trying to get the Senate bill passed. Ron Wyden has had a hold on it, but I don't know how effective a tactic that is if the whole rest of the Senate wants to pass the bill. Check out the campaign contributions; this is not at all dead in the water. Some might describe it as bought and paid for. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:46 AM, 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:345462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
