U.S. Congress - H.R.3261 Stop Online Piracy Act
H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act
To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes. view all titles (6)
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- Popular: Stop Online Piracy Act as introduced.
- Short: Stop Online Piracy Act as introduced.
- Official: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Popular: Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act as introduced.
- Popular: E-PARASITE Act as introduced.
- Popular: SOPA.
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You brought a great analogy into play here. There was another country with a political party called the National Socialist Party that burned books and tried to censor what the populace was seeing. If memory serves they also had a Department of Homeland Security as well. I believe they were called the Nazi’s, and we all know how that movement ended.
“but what is shouldn’t mean is that the writer has a team of armed goons ready to stick guns in people’s faces demanding payment for singing their songs at karaoke”
Wow….did you even READ any of the bill? This hyperbolic nonsense is why things get out of hand. This bill is saying that if you run, operate, or use a site that is solely dedicated to theft of intellectual property, you are more than likely going to go to jail or be fined pretty heavily.
Sure. Burning books was a way to censor thought in order to continue promoting beliefs of the party in charge. Shutting down piracy websites is to keep bottom-feeders from stealing things/taking credit for things they did not pay for or invest in. Why is that so wrong?
“a song/movie/media can be recreated by anyone with a tape recorder or computer”
Sure…you can do that, but it is a violation of federal law already. All this bill is doing is providing enforcement. If people would stop being so lazy and buy things instead of resorting to theft, this bill would be unnecessary.
So much for freedom in America. Download anything everywhere but here in our great country? Sounds like these congressmen are getting paid by the American taxpayers and the media moguls. Where does it end? It doesn’t. Once the door has been opened, it only gets wider. If the American public had as many lobbiest on Capitol Hill as big business, “We the people” would mean just that.
@allyReport101 You asked, “Can anyone explain the difference between burning books and taking down websites”, and I will try.
Burning books requires a source of heat and oxygen. Taking down a copy[]right violating website requires only an injunction.
Can anyone explain the difference between wire communications and the Internet? – No you cant because they are just one method to wire communicate.
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Aside from the obvious point that most of the internet traffic worldwide is sattelite coordinated, not to mention the plethora of wireless networks world-wide, and I see wireless communication occuring. Radio is also wireless.
The ironic thing is that I will wrangle (not to be confused with Rangel) opencongress.org in any way I can to help elect Ron Paul, whereupon we will proceed to put an end to forcing the public to pay for opencongress.org. This outcome would ideally be but a benefit of ending the income tax. Isn’t it fascinating how the Eastern Bloc repudiated Communism in the early 80s, yet the U.S. increasingly embraces Communism?
Well, well, well. Take a look at those monetary donations thrown at our senators and representatives by the interest groups that support this bill.
Over three million for one senator :P
do NOT allow this bill to pass it will cripple our nation as a whole, and destroy what our founding fathers have created for us…This is the land of the of the Free!! lets keep it that way!
It seems that it’s a bit redundant to say that. Other comments say almost the same thing. A +1 should suffice :)
Please, explain how protecting the intellectual property of another from theft is against anything you have read from our Founding Fathers.
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cannot tell if troll…. The bill allows the fed to send out letters requiring companies to black list sites. There is no way for the government to do that remotely. ‘Hacking’ is not an issue here…
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Yes, it seems that “Democracy” isn’t happening here in America. Corporatocracy seems to be the best term.
The internet is far to powerful for a few to control. The government has enough power. If they take away our rights on the internet, what rights will they fight next?
Although I don’t support the bill I’d like to point out that having the internet isn’t a right. It’s a convenience. Actually Pirating is also a convenience, if internet is a “Right” then being able to pirate something is a right
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As an artist, I think the Internet has already gone way too far in trampling on the rights of artists and copyright-holders. There’s an entitlement mentality that thinks entertainment should be free, not realizing the enormous investment of time, effort, skills and resources that’s required to produce many of the works they enjoy. When it costs millions of dollars to produce a movie, and entire lifetimes of effort to generate the skill necessary to make it, people have the effrontery to think that it should be distributed to anyone and everyone online at absolutely no cost or recompense. It’s sad and abhorrent how people grossly undervalue creative works these days, and even sadder how little people realize they’re fatally damaging an artist’s capacity to make a living through their works. I can say with little hesitation that I support increased regulation on an Internet that fights against an artist’s or company’s ability to control their own copyright as they deem fit.
“Creative vision” is not more important than the rights of an entire country to have a free and uncensored Internet. If this bill passes, it’s not going to be just artists that will have trouble making a living- it will be the entire IT sector, since it will stifle innovation and put the IT companies at risk for lawsuits, even if they’d done nothing wrong other than allow users to find sites that contain pirated content.
There are already countries that control what their citizens can access on the Internet, or whether or not they can access it at all. But hey, if you want to go live in North Korea, be my guest.
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WE.DONT.CARE.ABOUT.YOUR.PORN. I can drive down the road and pick up an illegal hooker once a week for less than the cost of an internet subscription, why would I care about ‘unlawfully’ looking at the pictures you have taken?
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Bro, I don’t give a flying blue fart about your nude photos. I have about as much use for your nude photos as a fish would have for a toaster. However, I am in school to become an IT professional. This bill threatens everything I’ve worked my entire life for, and I’m not going to take it lying down. Have you considered using a password to protect your files? Just saying, that would cut down on people accessing them without your
Part of me wants to say troll. But if you really think like that, what the hell is wrong with you? How can you SUPPORT this? It’s not about “porn” or “nude pictures”. It’s about our RIGHTS. There is MUCH more about the internet than porn.
I would just like you to know that you are very ill in the head. Furthermore, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Censorship affects EVERYBODY, not just this weird demographic of porn-addicted activists that you seem to have made up in your spare time. This is especially true when the bill serving as the basis for this censorship is so broadly worded. Imagine clicking on a youtube link thinking it’s legitimate and then BAM! felony charge. That’s very possible given the wording SOPA is currently using. Personally, I don’t give a flying fig newton about your porn collection, but I would like to feel safe browsing the internet without having to mull over for three days as t whether reading somebody else’s facebook post will put me in jail.
I would simply like to point out that pornography on the internet will not be eradicated just because we pass this bill.
No ma’am. The Internet WILL be regulated after the Eighth Circuit Court orders the FCC to regulate “Internet wire communications” just like TV and radio are regulated now by law. It will not eliminate pornography but will no longer allow pornography to be accessed by anonymous persons. POOF!
Blatant theft of people’s work is one thing, but this bill extends beyond that problem and threatens people who are in no way involved in that. Think of it this way: It’s as if every time you left a store, someone could point at you and shout “Hey, he just stole a candy bar!”, and suddenly you’d have security guards pouncing on you and a felony charge waiting just around the bend. SOPA won’t save your precious property, but it will make it possible for anyone who doesn’t like you to royally screw you over for something you haven’t done.