Stop SOPA

[Elomin Sha]

We've been meaning to tell you for a while Dream, we just didn't know the right time. We're sorry to crush your young ideals.

[Lord Chrusher]

Correct Mr Sha, these fellows are not members of the Real IRA, but members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

[Geoff_B]

Why are they all called the IRA? I demand originality in my terrorist organisations!

[Elomin Sha]

That's why I call them fake, they're not real terrorists. Where's there maniacal plan for extreme destruction, their super doomsday weapon and their silly accents? People today, just because you have decided on an acronym doesn't make you a terrorist. Poor poor fools.

[Lord Chrusher]

The only person proposing anything similar is Newt Gingrich with his plans for a moon colony.

[empath]

Betcha he's got a white cat he strokes when in his private lair...


But back to the various bullshit "let's presume guilty until proven innocent" anti-piracy legislation, Whil Wheaton spoke quite well on all this with The Young Turks.

[empath]

Oh, and this has some good points that have yet to be brought up: MPAA & its member studios have been consistently wrong about every change in their industry...

[Rikadyn]

Copyright Cartel Calls for Broad Search Engine Censorship

[Danielle Pepin]

Worldwide petition to STOP ACTA the un-free trade agreement on censoring the internet worldwide:
bit.ly/yPn7BR

Posting a new thread so it gets the attention it deserves.

PS If that info graphic weren't so huge...it may get more shares. View image makes it tiny but the magnify makes it too big to read.

[theDreamer]

This is so incredibly relevant to the idea of copyright

[Geoff_B]

That was awesome

Here's an old one from Jonathan Coulton. Sort of relevent.

[empath]

Yeah, yeah; I necro'd. But guess what: so did the thugs at the RIAA...

If they can't buy legislation, they'll just buy *voluntary* monitoring from ISPs themselves. (Republicans should be happy that the middleman gov't got cut out of the equation altogether)

I bet it never actually gets enforced, any more than the existing clauses in EVERY ISP's Terms & Conditions about "Disseminating material which violates copyright or intellectual property rights." or "upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, create derivative works of, or distribute in any way information, software or other material obtained through the Service or otherwise that is protected by copyright or other proprietary right, without obtaining any required permission of the owner;", etc. etc.

Bit of a tempest in a teapot, but it still rankles that these sleazy unethical bastids are willing to sink lower than the file-sharers. I really hope they goad and coerce an ISP into serious infringement and wrongful accusations of someone merely suspected of filesharing, and they all get their hinds hauled into court.