On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:41 AM, richardsan wrote: > > is this legislation over reaching as far as 'laws already on the books'...?
Absolutely. DMCA takedowns can be sent and there are no real penalties for frivolous or erroneous takedown notices, but at least there's some form of due process. Neither PIPA or SOPA offer these. While they claim to have removed the more draconian parts of SOPA (The domain-killer provision) there is still no system of due process; these laws can be used a cudgels by that increasingly smaller pool of mega-media companies to turn the internet into a one way street. (And I'd show you a link to that list, but, you can't get there today...it's gone, just as if some media corporate person decided that it infringed on their copyrights) And this is all still a gigantic protection racket for dead-as-a-dinosaur business models of Big Media. (which have been disproven again and again, most recently, and spectacularly by Louis CK: <https://buy.louisck.net/news> In a few weeks he made a million bucks, by not treating people like criminals. The music industry have been completely changed by the advent of electronic distribution: Napster did not so much due to legal action by the labels but the overwhelming success of the iTunes music store, which gave people a completely legal way to buy the music they wanted at a price the wanted. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but the basic thing is people, as a rule, don't want the hassle of finding and downloading music, movies or tv shows of dubious quality through bitorrent. The REASON they resort to it is that unlike Louis CK, the media corporate persons want to control wha=ich of my devices I see things on, where I can see things in the world, what VERSION of something I can see. They want their ultimate fantasy of charging me for EVERY TIME I listen to or view their "property". To do this they have to kill the internet dead, and revive it as their zombie one-way conduit. SOPA and PIPA are bad laws that will not achieve their stated aim (protection of intellectual property from online piracy), but will achieve their intended one (subordination of all content producers to the big media corporate persons)...they want to turn the internet off, and make it like broadcast tv. Goodbye Youtube, goodbye Etsy, goodbye Wikipedia, hell, under the laws as they're being proposed, quite probably, goodbye Google. And this doesn't even touch on the 'criminalizing civil copyright violations' provisions. Under these laws of Disney decides ythey don't like your satirical use of Mickey Mouse they can throw your ass in prison. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
