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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Let’s see here…
A bill that would make it so that ANY sort of piracy could shut down an entire site…
A way for the US government to track EVERYTHING on ANY website…
A violation of our privacy, which DOES include what we do on the Internet…
So, basically, the US government wants to become China, a Communist state that regulates everything that every citizen does. They also censor their Internet so that people can’t say anything bad about their government. Also, the censorship doesn’t fully work. There are ways around it, and this makes complete censorship almost impossible.
IMPORTANT: Here is a petition that you should definitely sign.
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/megaupload_seizure/?akid=1155.585444.PHZzk0&rd=1&t=2
In case you don’t know already, Megaupload was seized shortly after yesterday’s PIPA protest. This is just a preview of what could happen if PIPA or SOPA were to pass. Please do not let this happen again. I hope that a lot of people sign this petition.
I hope that Congress realizes that the MPAA and all of their affiliates got started because they committed copyright infringement. Video recording was patented by Edison then after that they basically said “Screw you we want to make movies without having to pay you for your world-changing technology!”. If they are going to support something like SOPA and PIPA, they should at least get their facts straight and not be complete hypocrites. Oh wait, everyone in Congress, the White House staff, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Reserve(which isn’t even affiliated with the government, they are a privately owned sector that the government loves because they can get money from them for free) are all hypocrites already. Don’t worry about the election, it won’t change anything. If you want to do something about the corruption that’s trying to control us, then take action. Don’t vote, protest(peacefully). Don’t take their crap any more.
PS: You should have expected us.
Expected? More like wondering what took so long ;)
My name is Jennifer, and I think that SOPA is a terrible idea, puts the very fabric of our free speech in jeopardy, and we should do everything we feel we can to fight it.
Thanks in advance for your help, I hope that if enough of us stick together and make enough noise, we can beat this thing!
Jennifer SulkinOPERATION BOOBIES FOR FREEDOM
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THESE cats have their crap together. Go here, they’ll make it really easy for you to be loud at the people that make decisions.
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Please at least repost it, we could really use your help! Thanks, see ya there!
I agree! SOPA and PIPA and now ACTA are the worst things to happen to the internet ever! Thanks for the great resources.
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http://open.salon.com/blog/curtisneeley/2012/01/20/11-2558_curtis_neeley_jr_v_namemedia_inc_et_al_letter
“et al” is currently Google Inc and they will lose this case very soon and PIPI and SOPA will both be very irrelevant. United States’ Copy[rite] Act will be found unconstitutional as could not be more obvious to the common photographer or citizen. Copy[rite] has been unconstitutional since the HOAX was signed by George Washington in 1790.
Wire communication regulation is one of the reasons the FCC exists and regulating analog broadcast transmissions is a tiny portion of their statutory authority.
Cable subscription television and internet wire communication regulations are now demanded begun!
It is trivial to regulate display of adult material to adults and will be required within months. I hope a Supreme Court petition is not required but am ready to file if so.
They already ruled on that!
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has also been the subject of several court challenges. Title V of the Telecommunications Act, the Communications Decency Act of 1996, sought to protect minors from exposure to indecent materials transmitted over the Internet. The Supreme Court, in a highly debated case, struck down most of those provisions on First Amendment grounds in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844, 117 S. Ct. 2329, 138 L. Ed. 2d 874 (1997). The Telecommunications Act also included so-called “signal bleed” provisions, requiring cable operators either to scramble channels containing sexually explicit materials or to limit programming on these channels to certain hours. The Supreme Court likewise struck down these requirements as impermissible content-based restrictions in violation of the First Amendment in United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803, 120 S. Ct. 1878, 146 L. Ed. 2d 865 (2000).
Reno v ACLU was written by Honorable John Paul Stephens. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court’s history.. He was twenty-five when the first nuclear bomb was dropped. I am sure the Internet was a mysterious “unique and wholly new medium” for him. He and four of the other confused old men/women grew up with no internet and agreed with him and felt the internet was mysterious but have now retired also. The court today still grew up with no internet but internet wire communications are not so new now.
http://open.salon.com.blog….letter <<< See why its almost over.
SOPA and PIPA postponed indefinitely after protests
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability.
The Senate had been scheduled to hold a proceedural vote next week on whether to take up the Protect IP Act (PIPA) — a bill that once had widespread, bipartisan support. But on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was postponing the vote “in light of recent events.”
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives said it is putting on hold its version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The House will “postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith said in a written statement.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/
Good job everyone!!!
I wish I could give a medal of honor to all those that helped win this battle!
That goes to show what We The People can do when we come together on a common cause.
The war is far from over though…
Now…if we can just take our country back from big money control…
And to all the new viewers here, please be sure to read the latest blog posts over there on the right side of the page.
SOPA/PIPA Dead …For Now.
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2464-SOPA-PIPA-Dead-For-Now-
All you new people are free to post your thoughts here too…
People in Congress read here…
Here’s another petition to sign, which will give back the MPAA’s dirty money:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/sopapipa_mpaa/?akid=3226.9932533.FeHiRA&rd=1&t=3
And here is a petition to stop ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement):
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK
SOPA is dead. Long live SOPA!
So it looks like SOPA and PIPA have both been shelved, for now. Bloggers and forum-goers around the internet are celebrating victory. While the anti-SOPA movement these past few months has been historic and unprecedented, the time to claim victory has not yet come and likely never will. Bad bills like SOPA/PIPA have a way of coming back from the grave. Often times, they are grafted on to other unrelated bills and pushed through with minimal attention. Even if SOPA and PIPA don’t come back, the scumbags who wrote them are still in office (this REALLY needs to change come November) and they areguaranteed to write similar bills in the future. Big Entertainment lobbyists paid a lot of money to buy politicians, and they aren’t happy that they haven’t gotten what they paid for. In fact, the MPAA is overtly threatening to stop giving money to politicians who went against their wishes.
If this sounds like bribery to you, you’re not alone. Sign this official White House petition to investigate this act of blatant bribery.
But even if SOPA and PIPA are really dead (which they definitely are not), while we focused all of our attention on them, at least two other bills are being pushed that are as bad if not worse. ACTA (which is actually a treaty, not a bill), and PCIP.
ACTA
ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (wikipedia article).
I’ll let this video explain what ACTA does. (see link)
The worst part is, for years the text of the treaty has been kept secret. According to the wiki article:
“Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause ‘damage to the national security.’”
Despicable.
PCIP
For more info on PCIP, check open its page on OpenCongress
PCIP stands for “The Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.” It was introduced by, surprise surprise, Lamar Smith, the same scumbag who introduced SOPA. Why is he so persistent you ask? Well, according to OpenCongress.org, the largest portion of Lamar Smith’s campaign contributions come from the TV/Movies/Music industry. He’s not really passionate about this issue he’s just been bribed. Sorry, people of Texas district 21, but your Congressman has been bought and no longer represents you…
So yes, we should take a moment to pat ourselves on the back for what we were able to spontaneously do to “stop” SOPA/PIPA. But don’t think that the fight is over. The fight will never be over. SOPA/PIPA have just been stalled temporarily. And even if they never come back, there are already bills that are just as bad, or worse, right around the corner. ACTA has been around since the Bush years. PCIP has been around since May and hardly anyone has known or cared (including myself). We can’t let this momentum die. Luckily we didn’t need to wait very long for the next bad bill to go through to rile us up again. Let’s just hope we weren’t too late like we were with the Indefinite Detention Bill (NDAA).
http://donttreadonmike.com/2012/01/21/sopa-is-dead-long-live-sopa/
If this sounds like bribery to you, you’re not alone. Sign this official White House petition to investigate this act of blatant bribery.
But even if SOPA and PIPA are really dead (which they definitely are not), while we focused all of our attention on them, at least two other bills are being pushed that are as bad if not worse. ACTA (which is actually a treaty, not a bill), and PCIP.
ACTA
ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (wikipedia article).
I’ll let this video explain what ACTA does. (see link)
The worst part is, for years the text of the treaty has been kept secret. According to the wiki article:
“Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause ‘damage to the national security.’”
Despicable.
Sorry for the double post :(
What I saw happen with SOPA and PIPA gave me new hope that We The People can fight back against huge money. People online shutdown those bills that had big bipartisan support, and huge corporate and money support.
What started with just a few sites and a few people turned into a movement that became over 7000 sites and countless people that convinced former supporters of the bills to drop their support or pay the consequences…
It became a movement that stopped Congress, and all those paying them millions to pass the bills, dead in their tracks.
I think we will be seeing more of that in the near future.
Internet wire communications users think these bills needed to be passed to work. SCOTUS ruled the Berne Convention selected by Congress in 1994 is the authority on copy[rites] and ruled this constitutional and not disturbing free speech or anything else. See Golan v Holder, (10-545)
p12 REPLY BRIEF <<<<
“3. The sweeping international impact of this case will, no doubt, require further consideration of the relevant issues but several factual issues will require trial. The Supreme Court will eventually be faced with requiring wire communications disguised as the Internet to be regulated by the FCC. This injunctive relief requested currently from the Eighth Circuit will, in fact, increase the Free Speech nature of wire communications as well as making wire communications more internationally accessible.”
Here’s a petition for Google to quit the Chamber of Commerce:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/google_quit/?akid=1187.585444.XmencS&rd=1&t=2
I was waiting for a big news outlet to finally talk about this story HuffPost did. It is well known in some places on the web. There was a lot more than just all of the sites that joined together to participated in the blackout that caused Congress, and others, to back down quick on SOPA and PIPA. A little mentioned, but very real cyber war was waged in many ways…
I also read a very good article today in a CT paper about how former Senator Chris Dodd was hired to push SOPA through, even though that is illegal for him to do until 2013. It is not online yet, but I will post it when it is
Of course Dodd will not comment to the CT media hammering him now…
Anonymous And The War Over The Internet
Late in the afternoon of Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Justice website vanished from the Internet. Anyone attempting to visit it to report a crime or submit a complaint received a message saying the site was unable to load. More websites disappeared in rapid succession. The Recording Industry Association of America. The Motion Picture Association of America. Universal Music. Warner Brothers. The FBI…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/anonymous-internet-war_n_1233977.html
I doubt that ANY site you mentioned was unable to load. “Anonymous” is just a bunch of unhappy nerds mourning the fact that the utterly unregulated Internet will disappear VERY SOON! It has existed unregulated due entirely to malfeasance of the FCC. The FCC is failing to regulate ALL wire communications including subscription cable television as required since 1934. After the Supreme Court allows the FCC to fine Fox and CBS for inappropriate television broadcasts by radio the Supreme Court will back an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals order that the FCC regulate ALL wire communications from subscription television by wire communications to internet wire communications. The Supreme Court will back the Eighth Circuit Court ruling that the copy[rite] act has been unconstitutional since enacted in 1790 and forbid display of inappropriate art to the unauthenticated or unidentified. The Robots Exclusion Protocol will also be made statutory and required to be used.
Problem with the concept that the unregulated Internet will disappear VERY SOON as you might say. If the United States agrees with you and makes filters for that kind of material, you’re essentially giving leeway to make a filtered version of the Internet… which, hey we’re fighting against all along. You’re asking the US Gov’t to step in and fix a problem which Google and MSFT and other search engines provide and that’s to give censored results in its search engines. The other problem is that the “unregulated Internet” will still be around as hey, the US can only rule here in the US. If the US makes a ruling, but say the UK doesn’t… you can’t sue the United Kingdom… Unless you have a dual citizenship somewhere, then Foreign Sovereignty still applies. The FCC cannot regulate what is show outside the borders of the United States as their own mandate applies they can only regulate North America. So your so called “Pornternet” can still exist.
At least you are trying to think logically. When the proposed 47 U.S.C. §232 passes, the pornternet no longer will exist on Earth at least in the US.
GOOG and MSFT use adult filtration to fool folks like you into supporting the pornternet. It was obviously not very hard to fool those trying to keep the US pornternet around?
Porn is not accessible for more of the internet wires on Earth than can see America’s pornternet The same porn shown in the United States is NOT shown in Europe, China, or elsewhere by search engines. Did you really think that it was? REALLY? You are not the least bit anonymous while connected to wires anywhere on Earth.
ALL wire communications browsers will be required to follow a robots.txt rating system. Allowing minors to access non-FCC-compliant wire communications browsers becomes a crime. The great US pornternet disappears very quickly.
Images can be rated PER FILE now.