Oh yeah, and I'd just LOVE to see a case like that in court. Label: Diddy infringed on a song he wrote and produced all on his own because he put it up on Megaupload not respecting the contract he signed with us giving us the copyright to all his stuff from the day he was born to 70 years after his death!! He stiffed us! We want our money!!!
Lawayer: Wasn't your pro SOPA/PIPA rant something like "think about the artists!"?
Label: We are! Diddy's not the artist! We are! Fine him! Take all his money! Take all his bling! Toss him in jail!!!
It's at least nice to hear it laid out so clearly.
Dodd to Congress: We bought and paid for these bills so do as you are told. Who cares what the public thinks even if it could cost you your job. We paid for you to be more concerned about MY job.
So now that the worst fears of people have been confirmed why bother with the silliness of elections? Pick a person for each district and they go to Washington paid by the highest bidder. For the Senate it would be two per state with the same rules in effect.
Same for the President.
That way. at least, we'd all know who owned whom. That's about the only mystery left. None of them are there to serve the citizenry.
Re: Re: Here lies the truth about SOPA/PIPA that even TechDirt has yet to report: what MPAA, RIAA, and Hollywood execs do not want you to see.
You know, he's right. I do remember CNET/ZZDNet with glowing reviews of file sharing software and sites using some of their top reviewers to do it.
For some reason I just didn't connect the dots though I knew they were there.
And, the guy is right, all of this is a great way to create a market where none may have existed before. So thank you Hollywood for creating and enabling the very market you now whine about so much and want to be protected from. The same market you helped create.
Not, by the way,that file sharing of a sort wouldn't have existed anyway but just imagine the technically challenged trying to use CNET and ZDNet without all those nice instructional articles, reviews and nice spots like Downloar
ds.com.
Not that there aren't far more legitimate uses for file sharing software and sites than piracy but the MPAA and RIAA will, of course, focus on the piracy.
I can't say I'm at all surprised. Or at all shocked. Standard method of operation for the MPAA, RIAA and publishing industry.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's not just the government that can attack free speech
Tossing a custard pie into someone's face is an old joke from way, way back in the old movies, comedies mostly of the 1920s and 30s.
it survives today, on occasion, as a form of protest against something a politician is associated with or stands for. In the 19th Century and early parts of the 20th century tossing overripe fruits and vegetables was the more common form of expressing dislike with the politician.
But the complaint in the filing is one side of the story Far from hearing from both sides.
No one on the target edge of a filing like this is gonna look like an innocent victim, bystander or scapegoat. The purpose of the argument is to get the authority to do do what they've done.
As Mike says, the timing is suspect at best even if those investigating MegaUpload had been at it for months. Waiting a day or two wouldn't have hurt anything that I can see. What with the New Zealand government acting like an eager to please lap dog in all of this.
I suspect the Republicans, leaders of SOPA in the House, are reading the tea leaves and finding that these bills have become toxic for elections this year.
If that's where this is going then there is ONE thing that will over rule almost a hundred million in donations to politicians and that's an upset electorate who don't like what the donations are buying.
Answer for point 3. Faith. Exactly what powered Prohibition. Make booze illegal and no one will drink. All that got forgotten is that alcohol is humanity's drug of choice in most situations used for social events, cooking, sitting around small tables in dimly lit pubs between watching strippers.
Faith and faith alone is what makes Hollywood thinks SOPA or PIPA will actually DO anything. People will still pirate as long as the MPAA/RIAA hold onto the past to control distribution and safeguard what they feel they should earn. It will continue as long as certain clothes and handbags are priced higher than a Mars mission.
You don't stop something by censoring it.
For all their mucking about with DNS that SOPA/PIPA propose did Lamar Smith learn that censorship of anything, up to and including, a revolution doesn't stop one from happening if enough people want it,
Censorship and claims of intellectual property don't stop ideas and don't stop people from seeking them be they covered they copyright, patents or 95 Thesis tacked on a church door.
I'd suggest to you from my reading of her blog that she HAS examined the bills actually have to say and that frightens her even more that what she heard.
Anyway, nice pick, #2 is the one that requires the least effort and thought.
Now, if they were just as worried about the people marking their X on a ballot (or it's voting machine equivalent) as the are overjoyed by the prospect of more and better funding.
Today has just been the start. To make sure these bills end up in the toxic waste sites they so richly belong in it's important the pressure be kept up.
Now if only Smith and Ried would get it that today hasn't been gimmick but a warning shot across the bow.
Not even congress critters can hide from a motivated Internet.
I'm not sure the Tories will he all that anxious to do that. A great deal of their base opposed C-11 and while they have a majority in the Senate the Liberals there can hold it up for years if they're so inclined. (Not that I'd count on that.)
But the Tories bringing in something that the MPAA is "imposing" in us? That would in interesting to see.
As I recall a lot of people opposed to the march tried to portray it as exactly that at the time.
After all, things were getting better right?
Thing is, labeling this a gimmick is a way Smith hopes to minimize its effect. Pity it won't work. Free publicity is free publicity. Might even cause a small increase in traffic to Wikipedia in the morning just to see it. ;-)
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Lawayer: Wasn't your pro SOPA/PIPA rant something like "think about the artists!"?
Label: We are! Diddy's not the artist! We are! Fine him! Take all his money! Take all his bling! Toss him in jail!!!
Lawyer: I rest my case.
On the post: MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought
Dodd to Congress: We bought and paid for these bills so do as you are told. Who cares what the public thinks even if it could cost you your job. We paid for you to be more concerned about MY job.
So now that the worst fears of people have been confirmed why bother with the silliness of elections? Pick a person for each district and they go to Washington paid by the highest bidder. For the Senate it would be two per state with the same rules in effect.
Same for the President.
That way. at least, we'd all know who owned whom. That's about the only mystery left. None of them are there to serve the citizenry.
On the post: MPAA Uses Anon Attacks To Make Nonsensical Comments About Free Speech
Re: Re: Here lies the truth about SOPA/PIPA that even TechDirt has yet to report: what MPAA, RIAA, and Hollywood execs do not want you to see.
For some reason I just didn't connect the dots though I knew they were there.
And, the guy is right, all of this is a great way to create a market where none may have existed before. So thank you Hollywood for creating and enabling the very market you now whine about so much and want to be protected from. The same market you helped create.
Not, by the way,that file sharing of a sort wouldn't have existed anyway but just imagine the technically challenged trying to use CNET and ZDNet without all those nice instructional articles, reviews and nice spots like Downloar
ds.com.
Not that there aren't far more legitimate uses for file sharing software and sites than piracy but the MPAA and RIAA will, of course, focus on the piracy.
I can't say I'm at all surprised. Or at all shocked. Standard method of operation for the MPAA, RIAA and publishing industry.
On the post: MPAA Uses Anon Attacks To Make Nonsensical Comments About Free Speech
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's not just the government that can attack free speech
it survives today, on occasion, as a form of protest against something a politician is associated with or stands for. In the 19th Century and early parts of the 20th century tossing overripe fruits and vegetables was the more common form of expressing dislike with the politician.
It hurts no one but legally it's an assault.
On the post: DOJ Gives Its Opinion On SOPA By Unilaterally Shutting Down 'Foreign Rogue Site' Megaupload... Without SOPA/PIPA
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No one on the target edge of a filing like this is gonna look like an innocent victim, bystander or scapegoat. The purpose of the argument is to get the authority to do do what they've done.
As Mike says, the timing is suspect at best even if those investigating MegaUpload had been at it for months. Waiting a day or two wouldn't have hurt anything that I can see. What with the New Zealand government acting like an eager to please lap dog in all of this.
On the post: DOJ Gives Its Opinion On SOPA By Unilaterally Shutting Down 'Foreign Rogue Site' Megaupload... Without SOPA/PIPA
Re: Re: The Indictment
After all, it's to protect the artists/children/guys with pockets full of untraceable cash for my SuperPAC!
On the post: Senate Minority Leader McConnell Tells Reid/Leahy To Kill PIPA
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If that's where this is going then there is ONE thing that will over rule almost a hundred million in donations to politicians and that's an upset electorate who don't like what the donations are buying.
On the post: File Sharing Without The Internet: The Saharan Bluetooth Experience
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Faith and faith alone is what makes Hollywood thinks SOPA or PIPA will actually DO anything. People will still pirate as long as the MPAA/RIAA hold onto the past to control distribution and safeguard what they feel they should earn. It will continue as long as certain clothes and handbags are priced higher than a Mars mission.
You don't stop something by censoring it.
For all their mucking about with DNS that SOPA/PIPA propose did Lamar Smith learn that censorship of anything, up to and including, a revolution doesn't stop one from happening if enough people want it,
Censorship and claims of intellectual property don't stop ideas and don't stop people from seeking them be they covered they copyright, patents or 95 Thesis tacked on a church door.
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Re: Infographic: Why the movie industry is so wrong about SOPA
On the post: Hollywood Film Editor Gives Detailed Explanation For Why Hollywood Shouldn't Support SOPA/PIPA
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Anyway, nice pick, #2 is the one that requires the least effort and thought.
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Then again, she is right. It's not political, It's those who don't know the internet and how it works and those who don't and won't.
So sad.
On the post: Translating Chris Dodd's Sanctimonious Bluster On Internet Protests Into English
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Translation: "Old habits are hard to get out of cause you didn't say anything new or sensible. Again."
On the post: Disney Refused Invitation From Senator Feinstein To Meet With Tech Companies Over PIPA/SOPA
Re: Senator Issakson's response
Well, not so wild. Deep in the forest of mangled syntax and fuzzy thinking it's clear he supports it he's just not prepared to actually say so.
On the post: More Senators Dropping Off As Co-Sponsors Of PIPA
Re: Um, yay I guess
On the post: Senator Ron Wyden To The Internet: Thank You For Speaking Up... But We're Not Done Yet
Now if only Smith and Ried would get it that today hasn't been gimmick but a warning shot across the bow.
Not even congress critters can hide from a motivated Internet.
On the post: Best Congressional Response To SOPA Yet? Rep. Bruce Braley Takes To *CENSORED* To Explain His *CENSORED*
And there's certainly a few laughs needed and I'm glad I got these few.
;-D
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But the Tories bringing in something that the MPAA is "imposing" in us? That would in interesting to see.
On the post: Lamar Smith & MPAA Brush Off Wikipedia Blackout As Just A Publicity Stunt
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On the post: Lamar Smith & MPAA Brush Off Wikipedia Blackout As Just A Publicity Stunt
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After all, things were getting better right?
Thing is, labeling this a gimmick is a way Smith hopes to minimize its effect. Pity it won't work. Free publicity is free publicity. Might even cause a small increase in traffic to Wikipedia in the morning just to see it. ;-)
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