E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 Jan 2012 @ 10:05am
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You are saying that none of those other sites are legit? Who are you to judge? Is a site only legit if it is owned and operated by a huge US based corporation? That is Horse Manure.
Yeah, GEMA is what the RIAA wishes to become one day. In Germany, all musicians have to be a member of GEMA in order to distribute their music. If a musician is not a member, the music gets blocked. Isn't that grand?
hopefully those on Capitol Hill have learned a big lesson about trying to mess with the internet... and what happens when you cut backroom deals to help one industry at the expense of the public.
Sadly, I find that thought a little too optimistic for government. Crony Capitalism is still alive and well in Washington and state and local governments. While we have been able to throw a monkey wrench into the works of this particular incarnation of crony capitalism, there are still thousands of more incarnations currently in effect and seeking to become law.
As a whole, we need to be more vigilant on all fronts and fight crony capitalism in all its incarnations. Whether it is a law that protects incumbent taxi cab companies, interior designers, florists, funeral homes, or whatever else might be seeking unfair protectionist measures against competition.
So keep up the good fight and defend liberty for all people.
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I would say trying to regulate the greatest communication tool in the history of mankind does far more insult to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Peter Zenger. Do you honestly believe that they would support giving the government the ability to censor the internet?
And there *will* be piracy legislation enacted; enacted because of greedy, selfish, lawbreaking douchebags like yourself
I think you are pointing the finger at the wrong person. The only greed, selfishness and lawbreaking (more like law bending) that is happening is coming from the side of SOPA supporters.
You claim that the people protesting SOPA were doing so based on lies, but the only lies I have ever seen are those coming from the mouths of SOPA supporters.
Ummm. Today is Jan 19. The president is not sworn into office until Jan 21 the year following the election. Which means it will take more than a year for a republican president to sign SOPA into law if it gets to that point.
Your description of the issue at hand directly conflicts with your problem of it.
If a work is under copyright for 100 years in the US, then it should enter the public domain Jan 1 of 101st year after creation. Just because copyrights last for 115 years in France, that should not be a reason to deny the public access in the US.
To take this to an extreme, what is a country decides that copyright should last forever. Because that one country has made that decision, then all creative works from that country would never enter the public domain in any other country that honors that treaty.
This is a bad ruling based on a bad treaty. I really don't see how this benefits anyone.
The decision is not final. Congress can still step in and change the law. As long as the changes to the law are still inline with the Constitution, there would be no problem.
How? Their purpose is to provide readers with educational material on a variety of topics. Since this one topic needs to be shared more prominently with the public, why not do it?
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I think you five year entertainment fast has clouded your judgement. You have reached the point where rotten potatoes are manna from heaven.
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Sadly, I find that thought a little too optimistic for government. Crony Capitalism is still alive and well in Washington and state and local governments. While we have been able to throw a monkey wrench into the works of this particular incarnation of crony capitalism, there are still thousands of more incarnations currently in effect and seeking to become law.
As a whole, we need to be more vigilant on all fronts and fight crony capitalism in all its incarnations. Whether it is a law that protects incumbent taxi cab companies, interior designers, florists, funeral homes, or whatever else might be seeking unfair protectionist measures against competition.
So keep up the good fight and defend liberty for all people.
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I think you are pointing the finger at the wrong person. The only greed, selfishness and lawbreaking (more like law bending) that is happening is coming from the side of SOPA supporters.
You claim that the people protesting SOPA were doing so based on lies, but the only lies I have ever seen are those coming from the mouths of SOPA supporters.
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If a work is under copyright for 100 years in the US, then it should enter the public domain Jan 1 of 101st year after creation. Just because copyrights last for 115 years in France, that should not be a reason to deny the public access in the US.
To take this to an extreme, what is a country decides that copyright should last forever. Because that one country has made that decision, then all creative works from that country would never enter the public domain in any other country that honors that treaty.
This is a bad ruling based on a bad treaty. I really don't see how this benefits anyone.
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