Messmaster said: noise said:The bill has the right idea, but man, it is so ham fisted it will break the internet.
There's nothing right about this bill at all. It was never really intended to even curb copyright abuse. If invoked, it can block
domain names from the internet, but you can still access the sites via IP address anyway. This means that the pirates will be just fine, because torrents, torrent trackers, limewire and p2p networks, and everything else will still work via IP address. But normal, legitimate, revenue-generating web traffic won't really be able to (or know how to) access the targeted sites on the web. It's a joke.
The worst thing about it is that it basically gives direct power to private businesses (read: competitors) to just shut you down for even looking like you might allow copyright infringement (whether you actually have or not!). No judge is required, and they're not required to give you any warning. Then they even get immunity if they fuck up and yank down the wrong site! WTF?
In my estimation, if any company wanted to use (abuse) this law to circumvent
safe harbor laws, they would go directly to the host of the "offending" web site. And hosts do not fuck around. We've seen people post copyrighted content only to turn around and report the site on which they posted the content, just to attempt to get the site suspended. You think competitors and trolls alike won't abuse this if
SOPA PIPA passes?
I thought democracy was when the people ran the government, or rather, their representatives only did things that the people want. But I don't think most Americans are even aware of
SOPA PIPA, much less asked for it! So then who asked for this piece of shit? Not us. If there was ever a clear example of
big business running the government, this is it. The entertainment industry's campaign contributions are louder than our voices.
/rant
Messmaster
People tend to get a bit insane with the rhetoric on the issue, it's a powerful one and an emotional one.
I am in no mood for handing over so much power to the big media companies, let alone the government.
The best point you make is about how the pirates are going to be just fiiiine. As usual, it's the consumer that takes it in the ass because the giant companies refuse to change their out dated business models and insist on trying to retain their outmoded models with an iron fist.
Fuck them, fuck them in the arse with the cold science of all media being an infinitely copyable file you simply can not DRM effectively. All they aver manage to do is find something that fucks up the consumers day while the pirates have broken it in ten minutes.
My point though is there are serious concerns, starting with spam and scammers and working up to counter fitters selling their bogus stuff through websites.
The technical way SOPA wants to do it? Fuck No.
Every way SOPA wants to go about it pretty much sucks.
If you would like to here a bunch of internet savvy lawyers talk about the whole thing, there are a few episodes here:
http://twit.tv/twil
The newest episode
#143: Cow Dung On The Prada
...has a really nice balance as one guy says "Hang on a minute... people pay me whole bunch of money to justifiably protect their brands and incomes that pay their workers wages...".
Although they pretty much all agree SOPA sucks Satan's balls.
I am totally down with the blackout. Take UMD out - fuck the days money dude. People need to understand what this is about.
"Stop Online Piracy Act". Same fucking thought process that went into coming up with "The Patriot Act".
Seriously, if political group wanted to stop fathers from seeing their children they would probably call it the "End the Pedophiles Act" because at first glance, that sounds like a great idea and who could vote against that? However of course never allowing any father to see his children because 1 in 100,000 fathers abuse their children is not a very rational cure for the problem.
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