MPAA Boss Chris Dodd Denies That Copyright Law Today Has Created Any Free Speech Issues
from the can-someone-please-educate-him? dept
MPAA boss Chris Dodd is apparently continuing his "how far can I stretch the truth" tour in support of SOPA/PIPA. His latest stop was an interview on Bloomberg TV. He talks about a bunch of things, blowing some hot air about how this debate is a "breakthrough." But the part that interested me is around the 3:30 mark, where he insists that what SOPA allows we already do to American sites, and "no one has suggested freedom of speech has been hampered."That's our key concern. It's not some "hypothetical." We have tons and tons of evidence of today's laws being widely abused, so we're quite reasonably freaked out about a law that has much, much broader implications, in that it doesn't just take down specific content, but entire websites. And, when that happens, speech is definitely restrained, and legitimate companies get killed.
So when I hear Chris Dodd claim that "no one has suggested freedom of speech has been hampered" under today's laws, I wonder if he's simply completely ignorant of what's happening... or if he's just lying. Either answer looks bad for Dodd. But it does highlight the desperation of SOPA/PIPA supporters today that they're resorting to such ridiculous claims...
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Old Habbits Die Hard, Old Morons Die Slow
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He IS an overfilled gas bag.
He might be right about the OPEN Act being more difficult to help resolve copyright issues. But notice how there's no mention of punishing those that bring false copyright claims. Someone needs to bring that up at the next Chris Dodd tour.
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He will say anything for 1.5 million dollars, which is what the MPAA is paying him, to get unnecessary and damaging legislation passed that will likely serve to bite all of us, including the MPAA, in the ass.
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As in, No mega corporation in the movie or music industry has suggested that their freedom of speech has been impaired. They are the only people who really count after all. All the rest of us are not really anyone.
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This asshole is the same guy responsible for the housing crisis a few years back.
This guy only cares about getting power for himself and as far as he's concerned everyone else can hang.
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What laws? There was nothing legal about how Dajaz1 was taken down. ICE just decided to take it down because they could, using flimsy (and later proven false) claims of piracy as the excuse for ICE's law breaking towards Dajaz1.
If it had been taken down by today's laws there would have been a trial and conviction first with both sides present.
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Lies, damned lies.
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Are you really still wondering this? Just make the post, I know you want to "Chris Dodd lies about being a liar, while lying."
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Same Chris Dodd?
How fittingly he works as a mouthpiece for the MPAA. What, he couldn't get in with one of the banks who supported his campaign?
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McCain Campaign Feels DMCA Sting
(Letter from McCain-Palin Campaign dated October 13, 2008)
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WTF?! They did NOT use civil forfeiture laws, the used the criminal forfeiture claws in the Pro IP Act, notwithstanding that copyright infringement is usually a civil offense ratter then a criminal one.
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It's a great country where someone like Jon Stewart can go on television and point out the blatant hypocrisy of our government officials. Is a truly sad country where he can keep doing this for years on end.
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Balderdash-- only crooks lost their ability to tell other crooks where to look
The First Amendment has plenty of practical exemptions. It does not cover people helping other people break the law. That's called being an accessory to a crime.
Now quit insulting the legacy of great First Amendment fighters like Martin Luther King or Peter Zenger. These were people with legit complaints and this is just an insult.
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They should all be in jail, criminal scum.
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Innocent until proven guilty, it's supposed to be the cornerstone of our legal system. They are not "criminals" until proven so in a court of law.
Now quit trampling my constitutional rights and fucking die already. The world has changed and will continue to do so, with or without you. Your attempts to get back to the way things used to be is just an insult.
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Well, you certainly win the "Complete Jackass Of The Day" award. Riddle me this, Bobbo: if what ICE did in taking Dajaz1 down was so warranted....HOW COME THEY GAVE THE FUCKING SITE BACK YOU FREAKING RETARD!!?!!?!?
"Why don't you complain about mobsters being put in jail for ordering that someone be "whacked?" After all, they're just expressing an opinion."
Yes, allowing 3rd party users to make comments that might sometimes include links to other sites that host infringing content, maybe, if anyone can actually figure out if its infringing or not...is EXACTLY the same as a mobster at the top of a hierarchy ordering one of his henchman on a hit. Bob, I fear the best part of you likely ran down the crack of your mothers ass in a cheap motel somewhere....
"The First Amendment has plenty of practical exemptions. It does not cover people helping other people break the law. That's called being an accessory to a crime."
What in the sweet hell does that have to do with Dajaz1? The people doing the helping were users, not the site itself. Are you having a stroke? I don't say that in a wondering tone; I say it in a hopeful tone.
"Now quit insulting the legacy of great First Amendment fighters like Martin Luther King or Peter Zenger. These were people with legit complaints and this is just an insult."
Aw, look at you. Nevermind that MLK was a champion of free speech. Nevermind that, as an evangelist, he'd have LOVED a free internet. No, you invoke him anyway.
So, in the same spirit, please stop insulting the legacy of Chris Dodd by backing SOPA.
Fucking idiot....
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I feel that the only thing amiss might be a friendly greeting along the lines of - "May you die from colon cancer in a part of the world that has yet to invent Morphine."
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Because there is never a valid reason to link to potentially infringing content? There is never a fair use reason to do so? Because a person that links to infringement is jsut as guilty as the person that actually infringed?
Are you serious?
Also, I highly doubt that MLK and Zenger would have supported the censorship of the internet. They were pretty darn supportive of open communication, due process and fair treatment of all people.
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It's not Google, Yahoo or Bing's fault if I find the name of an offending site when I search for it and then download something infringing. That's my fault and mine alone. All they do is provide the directory. And it's their fault somehow that I did that?
Don't be silly.
And it's interesting that the Bloomberg headline under Dodd said something about stealing ideas when neither copyright or patent law protect any such thing. They both protect certain expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
Remember that we are talking two groups that have complained bitterly about every technological advance for the past hundred years that just might make copying easier or that might hurt them somehow. (For the latter see the introduction of television and the MPAA's whines that it would destroy their box office business.)
MLK and Zenger would have opposed bills like SOPA and POPA just because of their chilling affect on free speech. And, were they alive today, would have used the Internet and the web to spread their ideas far and wide. That said no one is abusing their memories or stature.
Both backed causes seen widely, in their day, of not really having legit complaints. It was only after they were active for a while that the public mood moved to supporting them. They stood up honourably and honestly for their causes and beliefs and both triumphed. So, while you may not consider concerns about free speech and the security of the Internet and not legitimate complaints I have to suggest that you are in the minority in that one.
The comparison is also idiotic but I won't call you that. DH already has and he does a far better job than I do at skewering :)
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The idea need not be true, simply repeated often enough. It's a stratedgy used by salesmen, politicians and "prophets" all the time.
He hopes that if he says something loud enough and long enough, people will believe it is true. And he's right. He will convince people it is true.
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videoegg = teh suk
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Now if only everyone could ignore him and leave him to his fantasy world.
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I boycott your Industry and all others who will support SOPA/PIPA.
You will never get a dime out of me and I mean ever.I will buy all my films via used physical products.You wanted to screw us well ass just wait till more and more people wake up and join in the boycott.
SOPA/PIPA = WAR
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Claimed outright, yes. Asserted. Accused. Blamed. Stated emphatically. Shouted. Screamed. Proclaimed, professed, protested, swore, averred, declared, insisted, predicated.
But merely suggested? No, probably not.
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wait what
then doesn't that imply that you've been acting as a criminal?
(hint: yes)
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You know…
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what do you expect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd#Controversies
The man is a lying sack of shit and always has been.
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Because when he says nobody said then nobody said and it doesn't exist.
*whisper whisper*pssst... Dodd... Come back from Doddland*Whisper whisper*
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MPAA & Dodd
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