It won't be a done deal if Net users everywhere hack their websites and regular people riot in the streets. Governments had better start respecting the will of their citizens, or Arab Spring could spread across the globe.
Copyright, kiddie porn and terrorism are the three excuses politicians use to crack down on online freedoms. It isn't about any of those things really. It's about control.
So if this were to pass, would all the videos I've posted of my UT2004 playthroughs suddenly be removed from YouTube, or would Epic and Atari have to pitch a bitch first?
Copyright has its place in guaranteeing that the author of a work gets to derive profit from it. But it has been perverted obscenely beyond that, allowing the author's great, great, great grandchildren to keep a work out of the public domain and to continue to profit from it.
If the content publishing industry gets its way, there won't even be a public domain or fair use in the future.
If you want to see what the future would be like under SOPA, just google Performing Rights Society and read about the havoc they've wreaked in England!
I wish the nanny state would stay out of people's private business. What a person chooses to do with their hard-earned money should be their choice, and theirs alone.
I hate to see more laws come on the book. People will simply ignore them and TWD anyway.
Last year, my friend and I were almost sideswiped by a woman one lane left of us who was texting away. She looked up and corrected in time, but it was close!
What's really sad is that some people can't be convinced to change their ways until they're either involved in an accident, or someone close to them is.
I'm certain Mr. Chaplin wouldn't have minded a kid using his song for a charitable work. When he wrote that song, he probably figured it would come into the public domain in just a few years.
Ranting and raving over new technology and trends is nothing new. In the early 1900s, phonographs and movies were the target, in the 40s, it was comic books, since the 50s TV has been a favorite target and since the 1990s, the Internet and so on.
Every 20 or so years, a new technology will be embrace by young people and eschewed and reviled by their elders. Even Plato ranted and raved about corrupt youth in ancient Athens.
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Muzzling the Net
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Game Playthroughs
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Oppose SOPA
If the content publishing industry gets its way, there won't even be a public domain or fair use in the future.
If you want to see what the future would be like under SOPA, just google Performing Rights Society and read about the havoc they've wreaked in England!
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Last year, my friend and I were almost sideswiped by a woman one lane left of us who was texting away. She looked up and corrected in time, but it was close!
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Texting is better
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Chaplin would be appalled
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Old as the hills
Every 20 or so years, a new technology will be embrace by young people and eschewed and reviled by their elders. Even Plato ranted and raved about corrupt youth in ancient Athens.
It's as old as the hills!
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