Activities like this will chill innovation and entrepreneurship in the US. Why locate here or even setup under a .com if the US government might kill your business with no explanation at any moment?
I honestly can't think of a stronger way to get the message across. This move will really restore some of my faith in the US government.
Alas, one can only dream.
"If they create a rape task force, are you going to argue that the DOJ is acting as a private police force for women? Are you going to say that the cops out arresting car thieves are a private police force for car owners?"
"The fact is that the content creators pay a huge amount of taxes in this country"
"At the end of the day, the folks in government are going to side with the folks who pay taxes and act like good citizens."
Out of curiosity, how EXACTLY does Germany saying they won't sign ACTA discredit the anti-ACTA movement?
Is Reddit going to do anything about this? If it passes here it'll create an international precedent that will allow other western countries to follow in their tracks.
If not, they'd better get right on it ASAP.
It's just another shill post by someone within the RIAA, MPAA, ESA and other organizations who supported SOPA. Or it's just a plain old troll.
Posts like this have been popping up all over the place ever since the SOPA protests.
Is it just me, or are more and more of anonymous comments such as this been springing up since the Jan. 18 protests?
Industry shill methinks.
"1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."
This is S.27b of the UN's charter for human rights. While copyright can help with the rights granted in paragraph 2, at the moment this often comes at the cost of the right granted in paragraph 1. When copyright law was originally introduced, the rights in paragraph 2 were roughly balanced with the rights in paragraph 1. But because of the endless expansion of it by the usual suspects over the last 40 years it's no longer the case.
Most importantly, NOWHERE in there does it grant copyright as a human right. As I said, copyright can be used as a tool to help grant paragraph 2's rights, but it's not the only way that could be done.
Sorry to sound so cold Endtimer, but if I had to choose between:
A. An America without copyright, where you would not releasing the work, or
B. An America with extensive and Orwellian copyright legislation (like SOPA/PIPA) where you do release the work.
Then I'm gonna pick A. Everytime. Sorry.
No there isn't. Short of removing him from office that is.
Dodd should be vewy vewy afraid. Lamar is going to steal his job.
Every reaming sponsor of the bills should no longer have a seat post next election. Especially Smith and Leahy. Show them the public has not forgotten what they did, and make an example of them to all future political candidates.
"We could learn a lot from the music industry,"
Is it just me or have these sort of anonymous comments left on articles concerning copyright become a lot more common since the SOPA/PIPA protests?
My rule no.1 for the use of sites like FaceBook: Don't post anything on it that you wouldn't be prepared to put on a sandwich board and stroll through a local shopping mall wearing it.
Worst comes to worst, ban European IPs from posting. Yeah they can use proxies, but then the comment will have the appearance of originating somewhere other than Europe so you could plead ignorance.
I agree to the basic idea here, but no, what you're asking them to do wouldn't be easy at all. Remember who they'd be up against if they start trying to roll back copyright and the alarming influence they have on governments locally and abroad.
Can anyone tell me how many signatures it has so far? The site won't work for me :(
Never going to happen. The US is never going to violate a treaty that benefits a corporation.
But it would be interesting to see how the Whitehouse responds...
Down with the MPAA/RIAA
Nope.
MPAA/RIAA still have huge levels of power and influence. While everyone may look at the defeats of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and think "The People: 3 RIAA/MPAA: 0" the reality is "The People: 3 RIAA/MPAA: 100".
While they still have power and, we will have to continuously defend such attacks on internet freedom. Though their redundant business models will lead to their undoing sooner-or-later, SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/TPP show how much damage they can do in the meantime.
What is needed is a summer-long boycott of MPAA/RIAA/ESA media. Hit their hip pocket, show them we are numerous, we mean business, and we won't let these chumps get away with their attempts on our freedoms made over the last half-a-century anymore.