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I believe Ron Wyden(D-OR), Jerry Moran(R-KS), and Maria Cantwell(D-WA) have also pledged to to filibuster.

Well damn, it's about time Maria Cantwell did something I agreed with.

Again. It is a complete and outright lie (UTTER BS in fact) that artists currently have no means to "protect their works".

The current internet is kind of free and copyright holders already have plenty of tools to protect their works. Even megaupload will delete uploads that violate your copyright if you report it. And of course, then we have the other sites, some of which are even ridiculously pro-active in making copyright holders happy. Universal can delete any youtube video without any proof of ownership, and they have already done it.

It is not the collective's problem that some copyright holders are so lazy that they would rather prefer the web to be destroyed than them do their job. The advantages of holding a copyright come with the price that you have to work to protect it.

It would be insane and non-sensical to expect anyone other than the copright holder to protect the work. Because there are millions and millions of songs and videos out there. We, the people, cannot know all the copyrighted things in existence. It makes sense for the people that benefit from copyright protections to spend their own time looking and reporting for misuse of their work.




I have priorities. If it is up to me, these "artists" can drop to bridges if their livelihoods require the destruction of the free internet.

This is more complete and utter bull. There is a big reason why SOPA, PIPA and STUPIDACRONYM laws are pushed by big copyright lobbies that are already too massive. These laws will preserve their monopolies and cause discomfort tol the small artists. Small artists who right now actually using the free internet to their advantage.

The big offense, the big blasphemy against big disc labels is not that the free internet allows copyright infrigement (as mentioned, they already have plenty of means for them to fight copyright infringement). What really boils their bloods is that new, small artists are using things like youtube and facebook to publish their new works and are able to jump to popularity without any help from them. The internet makes disk labels irrelevant. You may ask Justin Bieber about this.



Culture has existed and has been rich for ages way before copyrights were invented.




Oh sure, the free internet has consequences. Take a look at Egypt.



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New technology kills industries. It is a fact of life. Scribes had to lose their jobs once they got obsolete. Giant record companies shall suffer a similar fate if they are unable to adapt. Scribes could not stop print.

Most members of congress are uniquely ill-equipped to make any laws regarding the internet, given that most of them are functionally computer-illiterate. They might or might not even be able to check their own email.

Many people who did not grow up using computers still seem to see computers and internet use as frivolous and/or evil; they should not be the ones to try to make laws to protect IP, and simply allowing the enormous media companies to write billls for them because they don't know a URL from an ISP (which is basically where SOPA and PIPA came from) is far too one-sided.

Rod Blagojevich said he could type even though obviously he couldn't. I wouldn't take the word of anyone in Congress about knowing how the tubes work.

"if you stop the tubes, they will back up and explode,
you dont want that, the internets are highly toxic to unprotected skin O_o"

relevant, i promise

That may be true for some but I don't think ignorance is a legitimate excuse for most. I think it mostly comes down to money, the people pushing this are people that have been bank rolled by the big media companies. I know one of Senator Bob Casey's bigger backers is Charter Communications who is a pushing SOPA/PIPA.

Harry Reid has a connections to the media industry out in Nevada.

The current head of the MPAA is former senator Chris Dodd.

There is some hardcore lobbying going on to get this passed.

if you don't want people to share it, don't post it on the internet. remember nothing ever leaves the internet once its on here, its my belief that the purpose of the internet is for free quick sharing of information and ideas

they say its about pirating but if you look at it and think you will realize its all about control. they want to control and regulate what we are learning to make us easier to control, its what they done for nearly 100 years now. if i was a better hacker i would definitely join Anonymous in their crusade, anyone remember China a few years back when they censored their internet? Google threatened to leave China if they didn't stop censoring it because the hackers were attacking them in response to the censorship, same thing will happen here but on a MUCH larger scale because this is America

Actually, one can wonder what will be the point of internet anymore! We could probably just cancel our respective internet subscriptions in protest (if even temporarily). =/

As long as piracy is considered to be "wrong" because of some trivial harm it may or may not inflict on the interests of billionaires, it will remain wildly popular and sought-after by just about everyone, including several of the affected billionaires (who lead the charge on populist notions more often than most people realize). When it is associated with penny-pinching, its esteem should undergo a sharp decline.

I agree - I was trying to imply such, but left out the bolded part of 'allowig the media companies to write bills for them because the media companies pay them $K's of money.'

Well apparently I would blame Christian communists, they want people to learn the Dictionary Books we have and not the internet, they also Religion can also be a bad thing too, reason they keep giving the Bible Books out, No offense.

The title of the bill makes me think of a pastry at Pancho's buffet.

Try and wrap your heads around this statement from the chairman of the MPAA:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/9 ... um=twitter

He thinks sites blacking out in protest is abusing their power. As the full linked article details, this from a guy who was once described as one of the most corrupt members of congress who passed through the infamous "revolving door" to become a lobbyist. Scary, huh?

I'd say our entire political system is morally bankrupt. Congress has been completely overrun with idiots and cronies. Either demand campaign finance reform immediately or make controversial bills like this pass a national public referendum.