Stop Online Piracy Act

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Hearing on this today:

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html

If you're unfamiliar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

good video on it aswell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vDHIFPg2E

[DamianTV]

This whole thing is just flat out bad news for everybody.

[kojirodensetsu]

+1

This shit better not pass.

[VoluntaryAmerican]

This whole thing is just flat out bad news for everybody.

Yup. Reminds me of Highschool where Big Brother Board of Education censored all the computers. Creepy.

[dillo]

from what I read google is against it, so i can't see it passing

[dillo]

from what I read google is against it, so i can't see it passing

[VoluntaryAmerican]

bump.

[FrankRep]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/images/stories2011/02aNovember/onlinemusic.001.jpg



Wednesday's House committee hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act pitted Hollywood's content producers against content providers Yahoo and Google.



Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Overkill (http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/9808-stop-online-piracy-act-sopa-overkill)


Bob Adelmann | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
17 November 2011

[Becker]

oh here we go again, "job killer". That's how you get Americans' attention.

They don't care that piracy kills Hollywood and recording jobs, they just say "jobs" when it's middle or lower class Americans.

[WarNoMore]

What jobs get killed by piracy? There's no guarantee of a sale from pirates. And there's no data that tells you what percentage of pirates already own or will purchase the material in the future. Hardcore fans pirate to get early access and then also buy the material or go to see the movie. People who never would've been fans get to try the material for free and then become fans and go on to purchase material or see the movie in theaters or go to a live concert.

[LirvA]

Click here to tell your reps to oppose SOPA
https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

[echebota]

Click here to tell your reps to oppose SOPA
https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

Done. Thanks for the link. I hope others do the same.
Copyright laws hampen the progress in general. But this legislation is outright violation of our liberties and very very very short sighted.

[Kade]

I expect all of you big talkers to understand this bill, and do everything in your power to stop any version of it from passing.

https://www.eff.org/