Rep. Lofgren Looks To Reddit To Help Crowdsource Anti-SOPA
from the not-sure-that-will-work dept
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who has been one of the few leaders in Congress when it comes to pushing for real copyright reform and pushing back against the bad proposals of Hollywood, is apparently looking to use Reddit to crowdsource a new bill concerning internet freedom. Earlier this year, we noted that Lofgren had introduced two good bills -- one on ECPA reform (pushing for more privacy for your communications) and one called the Global Internet Freedom Act to create a task force designed to ensure internet freedom. It will be interesting to see how well this works.Of course, post-SOPA, some on Reddit sought to crowdsource a bill on internet freedom themselves, and the process went a bit off the rails. I don't know that crowdsourcing is the best way to create a bill. I could see how it would be very handy in critiquing and improving an existing bill -- or maybe just generating ideas for a bill -- but if it's just starting from scratch, quality control could be an issue. Either way, this seems like an interesting experiment that will be worth watching.
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Luckily someone has already done the work for him!
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1) The "Safe Harbor" provision--an Orwellian abuse of the language if there ever was one--needs to die, and in its place we should put Internet services under Common Carrier doctrine. (This would fix our problems with bogus takedowns and Net Neutrality as well. Two birds with one stone!)
2) The legitimization of DRM and the legal protection for it need to go. In any other context, what DRM does to your computer--forcibly overriding your control of your property--would be considered hacking, so let's call a spade a spade and make the use of DRM technology illegal. We need to enshrine in law the principle that piracy is the content owner's problem; it is not the user's problem and the content owner has zero right to make it any user's problem unless and until they can prove in court that that user is part of the problem.
Fix those two issues, and well over 90% of the copyright abuse we see running rampant today would go away.
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Those A-Holes will do whatever MAFIAA tells them to do.
And we have already seen this happen before..............like just the other day with that RSC Copyright Policy that sounded good and then was quickly Retracted.
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reddit is the wrong place
reddit is just not a good place for that, and neither was that site used for crowdsourcing some other internet bill by Wyden.
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On the other hand...
Maybe if people would stop calling the fuckers "lawmakers" and start calling them "representatives", they might get their priorities right.
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Redditor Here...
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Like SOPA?
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http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/13gnfd/rep_zoe_lofgren_asks_reddit_users_to_crowdso urce/
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Hah
The only way they'll be able to converge on it is by limiting access to just a few like-minded friends. That's how the Wikipedia debated whether to take the Google money for their SOPA protest.
In practice, I think it will be filled with lots of looney ideas like the copyright holders should give out free massages to the people who pirate their work. Why? Some sort of reparations for all of the terrible wrongs that copyright brings to the world.
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If you have solid, direct proof otherwise, let us know. Until then, however, your claims are meaningless.
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