On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 04:06:28 PM webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > On 01/18/2012 02:26 PM, upscope wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:58:24 PM drew wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> Well, someone decided that the English website should go dark > >> today..I guess if you are reading this you know why. > >> > >> I would like encourage you to follow your own feelings on this. > >> IMO it's a good time, if you haven't done it before, to send > >> your congressman and or senators an email. (My personal > >> experience is that it's much better do it yourself, don't use > >> one of the canned services..) > >> > >> The vote in the congress isn't happening till the 24th, so you > >> have time.. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> //drew > > > > Drew I have to dis-agree with people not wanting to pass these > > bills. My wife is aself publiched ebook author and at least 5 > > illegill sites have stolen her books and are giving them away or > > charging less. This reduces her income significantly. > > > > Maybe the bill news to be tuned to not step on peoples free > > thoughts, but definately should protect writer, author, etc. But > > noing our so called representatives I wonder what they are really > > after, probably more loss of our freedoms. > > > > Just my biased thoughts. > > Use Whois to find out who carries these sites and they are required by > law in most countries to shut these sites down or remove the illegal > content from their sites. No site carrier wants to be held liable > for $100K in damage claims you can get them for. If the sites are > hosted my a home-based server system, the broadband access company is > required to stop their access/services. There are working laws to > help protect you wife's e-books and shutting down these sites. > > We need to make the net safer and better, without creating privacy > issues and reduce the freedom of speech. If it come down to a local, > regional, federal government shutting down or filtering content just > because they do not like it, then that violates the Freedom of Speech > laws that many countries have. China and other contries like that do > not want their people to have access to the truth as seen by the > out-of-country media and on the net. > > If we start losing our freedoms and privacy, then our countries slowly > will treat us like China and North Korea treats their people. Sure, > remove pirated e-books and such using the law, but do not remove the > good to get rid of the bad. There has to be better ways.
I wasn't suggesting removing the good. I'd just like to have them blocked, if possible. Several of the sites sre in Nigeria who is all ready known for the spamming and skims. I think one of them is in Russia. As for your last paragraph I think were headed that way anyhow, ths would just be another step closer. It will take alot of man power to impliment the proposed laws, etc and I feel the people breaking the law would just find another way. -- Russ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
