End Piracy, Not Liberty
Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.
This is a very difficult task for the lawmakers, but it can be solved in a way that will increase Federal revenues and I am very surprised none of the elected ruling class thought of it. To wit: Give full protection to anything for which a copyright document exists and sell them over the net for $10 each with a fully automatic system that outputs the document to any color printer. Zip! You have protection and Zap! You have a way to sue the testicles off infringers and plagiarists like Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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This is terrible!
The Internet is perfectly fine as is… This is only going to hurt the tech savvy people of this country… Censorship isn’t the answer!!!
Leave the friggin internet alone.
Online piracy is actually a huge problem that needed to be addressed several years and several billion dollars in lost profits ago. Russian rogue sites, Chinese, and many other foreign countries who don’t give a flip about US or copyright laws actually kill legitimate US businesses who offer digital apps, programs and other digital media for sale as a means of generating income. This law is aimed squarely at those offending websites that thumb their noses at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and rip off billions of dollars annually through these rogue sites. US businesses are powerless to fight off these site owners as it currently stands, mainly because the countries where the pirates hide do not recognize US law. The internet is growing and so is piracy, something has to be done. So while this law may need to be re-worded, it is indeed needed without question. Cloud computing is coming our way because of piracy (and logistics), so one way or another your on-line and general computing experience is going to change regardless. In my opinion, the right way to form this law would be to gather top tier companies, such as Adobe and Microsoft, Corel Corp as an example, and let them first identify the problem, and then offer solutions that retain freedoms yet deters piracy. Google uses similar technology within their search engine already with their adwords that could simply not return a result from such searches for illegal downloading sites of copyright materials. For those who may not know what cloud computing is, picture a scenerio where you don’t actually own or physically have the programs you use. These programs are available by subscription only, and the actual program you would use is loaded on a server somewhere and you use the app by connecting to that remote server via the internet. Having your cake and eating it too is not always possible and this is a prime example of that.
Instead of censoring the Internet, take down the biggest lot of pirates in the bunch – the RIAA! Prosecute those frauds for payola scams and embezzlement! BAN SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN; repeal DMCA!
There is nothing difficult about it. Leave it alone! Don’t touch it. We got along without it since the start of the internet. We don’t need anything like it now!
“Those that give up freedoms for security will lose both.”
With so many (supposed) brilliant minds in DC, SOPA and PIPA is the best plan to stop pirates that they could come up with? Seems to me that a seven year old child with five minutes of thought could develop some plan that would not through the baby out with the bath water.