Stop Online Piracy Act

[cwalner]

If this passes, expect extortion from the porn industry.

I'm serious.

They already track bittorrent users and prosecute when they can identify a target. And they send the offender a certified letter demanding damages, and you have to comply or have the fact that you illegally downloaded "Banging Trannies #7" made public.

Well, I wasn't going to pay for it. Especially since the quality of the series really diminished after #3

 

[bozothedeathmachine]

It's not often one sees a Megadeth reference in the Politics forum.

F - is for Freedom
R - is for red, ancestor's blood......

you know the rest.

SOPA would be abused to catastrophic results. Hell, normal use of SOPA would probably be terrible.

OTOH, if SOPA passes, it would probably lead to Pirate Bay posting more hilarious responses to Cease and Desist letters they receive.

 

[elbe]

OTOH, if SOPA passes, it would probably lead to Pirate Bay posting more hilarious responses to Cease and Desist letters they receive.

Probably not more than they do now. SOPA appears to be an end user issue, by forcing ISPs to comply instead of trying to take down a foreign website.

 

[Newtons Bit]

If this passes, expect extortion from the porn industry.

I'm serious.

They already track bittorrent users and prosecute when they can identify a target. And they send the offender a certified letter demanding damages, and you have to comply or have the fact that you illegally downloaded "Banging Trannies #7" made public.

Did this happen to you?

 

[Upchurch]

Business Software Alliance Withdraws Support for Stop Online Piracy Act

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which initially supported SOPA, has decided the legislation goes too far.

"Valid and important questions have been raised about the bill. It is intended to get at the worst of the worst offenders. As it now stands, however, it could sweep in more than just truly egregious actors," BSA president and CEO Robert Holleyman wrote on the BSA blog.

{snip}

"Due process, free speech, and privacy are rights that cannot be compromised. And the security of networks and communications is indispensable to a thriving Internet economy. Some observers have raised reasonable questions about whether certain SOPA provisions might have unintended consequences in these areas," Holleyman wrote.

Such a dramatic turnaround seems to be part of a growing realization that copyright infringement legislation is going too far.

{snip}

The Business Software Alliance represents IT companies including Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

All good news.



eta: Also, two people have now voted that they support this bill. I would honestly like to know why, if someone would like to step up and explain. I see no redeeming aspects of this bill, but obviously some people do.

 

[BenBurch]

Did this happen to you?

No, but you know I used to be in that industry, and I keep up with the legal issues. AVN's legal coverage is quite good.

 

[Newtons Bit]

No, but you know I used to be in that industry, and I keep up with the legal issues. AVN's legal coverage is quite good.

Sounds deliciously sleazy!

 

[BenBurch]

Sounds deliciously sleazy!

I wish.

 

[cwalner]

No, but you know I used to be in that industry,

I did not know this. Inquiring minds want to know more. If you choose to keep silent, I will have to assume that you were employed as a fluffer.

 

[BenBurch]

I did not know this. Inquiring minds want to know more. If you choose to keep silent, I will have to assume that you were employed as a fluffer.

LOL. I did still photo shoots for boxes and also retouching and desktop publishing. Mostly BDSM. This was in the early 80s. Then I was a contributor to Adam magazine in the 90s where I was a resource for Tracy Quan's column and then I was a contributor to AVN for much of the early part of the last decade. I also ran a sexworker's rights mailing list called "WhoreNet".

 

[Newtons Bit]

I wish.

I meant the tactic, not you. But you can be sleazy if you want to. I won't hold it against you. No seriously, I'm not gonna hold anything against you!

 

[BenBurch]

I meant the tactic, not you. But you can be sleazy if you want to. I won't hold it against you. No seriously, I'm not gonna hold anything against you!

No, I meant the business.

 

[WildCat]

I meant the tactic, not you. But you can be sleazy if you want to. I won't hold it against you. No seriously, I'm not gonna hold anything against you!

Hold it against him, he's been a naughty naughty boy. I think he need a good, sound spanking. Make him grovel.

 

[AlBell]

well the US Congress and Senate of baboons show their true colors once again. I guess they want to emulate communist China afterall

Closer to N Korea and Syria, imo.

 

[Upchurch]

http://www.virtualshackles.com/275

 

[RandFan]

SOPA Cabana

 

[Upchurch]

Bumping because this is getting closer to actually happening.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

Someone earlier on said that the internet is in a "wild west" phase, with little to no regulation. I think that if this passes, the internet would be going into a "gilded age" where corporations could do what they want.

 

[Bri]

Change.org has a petition concerning this:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-electronic-arts-to-oppose-internet-censorship

Apparently Nintendo, EA, and Sony have quietly dropped their support of SOPA. However, they are all members of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) which still supports the bill, and none have actively come out in opposition to SOPA. So I guess they realized that being actively in support of SOPA didn't sit well with their customers, but are allowing the organization to which they all belong do the dirty work for them.

-Bri

 

[Upchurch]

The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator

The title pretty much says it all.