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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The Internet is one of the last places for people to freely speak their mind without any recourse or persecution. Controlling the free exchange of idea’s and opinions will only slow man kinds ability to perceive the ever changing world around them. For those who support this bill i will remind you that because of the internet, and the way it works. Humanity has never been closer then it is right now……
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Regulation is a terrible idea. It should not be the governments job to decide whats offensive, Not to mention Unconstitutional. The damage that could be done by censorship of social media would be catastrophic. Even if they censor the US you cant censor the rest of the world.
@AllenTreen…
It is NOT unconstitutional to regulate the Internet anymore than it is to censor daytime television shows or the Superbowl halftime. An industry-wide five second delay of all live performances ALLOWS CENSORING. It is EXACTLY the government’s job to censor according to the Communications Act.
The laws requiring “censorship of the Internet” are not hidden or unconstitutional.
See USC 47 §§ 151,152, 230, 231.
The public will see the Internet is nothing but a high-powered telegraph wire that the FCC fails to regulate due to a confused, seventy-seven-year-old Supreme Court Justice who called the Internet a mysterious, unique and wholly new medium in ridiculous error.
ACLU v. Reno, United States Supreme Court No. (96-511) (June 1997)
Computer wire communications were neat when unregulated?
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I have heard this outrageous claim and it is ludicrous. The video of the dancing baby should have faced the complainant in court or ignored them. Once in the United States people would stand up for what they felt was right and not just back away and become the wire venue’s viral complaint.
Sounds like that is EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING!
I am sick of the whining about the dancing baby. ANYONE ELSE?
The case involved idiotic claims by Universal Music and these claims will steer clients away from Universal Music. Oops Well; Appears they are too big to fail just like Chevy et al?
HOW ABOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THAT STRIPS CORPORATIONS OF PERSONHOOD?
COPYRITES should be limited to the artist’s life and 50 years.
APPELLANT’S BRIEF
So you are saying you do not have to subscribe (pay) for the internet in America?
Are not children ALWAYS supposed to monitored by an adult?
From what I’ve read, this will unfortunately seriously hurt the only sector in the U.S. economy that is experiencing major growth. I can only see more harm than good in this bill. 1984 much?
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Google DOES NOT remove a site from the search index, just because google doesnt like it. Google removes a site only when its content has proven plagarized material, from another author. The offending website has the opportunity to resolve the problem, and then be reindexed into googles search results.
Websites which just suffer from poor content (and a few other reasonable factors) DONT get DEINDEXED, but their ratings and locations in the customers search results, suffer. This insures that the website author will fix their problems, or suffer the consequences. But The Author has the opportunity to fix the problem, and improve their locations in the customers search results.
Google would not deindex, or penalize a website, just because the content is against Google or googles policies.
Google goes to great extents to study and alter their indexing algorythym, so that freedom of speech isnt oppressed, except for plagarized content.
InternetCensorship OPPRESSES freedom and information
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I think the problem most people, including myself, have with these bills is that it gives the government even more power. It is obvious that they already have the power to shut down websites they deem offensive at will now seeing as how they have already shut down hundreds, without any due process mind you. We have witnessed what more government power under the guise of protecting people has gotten us. Take the Patriot Act for example. Out of all the billions of dollars spent to spy on US what was the result?
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@pavementends42 Ummm – THERE ARE NO US LAWS THAT PROTECT COPY RIGHTS There are artists rights tenuously protected in USC 17 §106A. In the United States USC 17 or the Copy[rite] Act, enshrines the United States government sanctioned copying RITUAL. SOPA is NOT bad for artists although most content is owned by corporations. Please explain your rational for that claim. – if there is one?
It is PRECISELY anti-competition in that keeps content thieves from competing with purchasers of the government sanctioned copy[rite] holders.
I understand your claim and semi-agree with it. The government sanctioned copy[rite] is unconstitutional since 1790 and has fooled most United States citizens and judges into thinking the IP backwards United States recognized the personal right to exclusively control created art.
@pavementends42 it appears you need to read the bill here then comment.
@WasMiddleClass I have served the Attorney General and the Federal Communications Commission.
Well…
I have no interest in getting into the finer points of copyright law now.
There are far bigger issues facing most of us now…
I wish you the best on taking on the powers that be. I have done it several times myself.
Many of us are more worried about our voices being silenced, to speak out about our jobs/money/rights/lives being stolen…
Maybe copyrights is yours above…
But no new law will help most now…and probably not you either.
I must say some lawyer friends of mine find it “interesting”…
I have been trying to come up with some fitting words for this anniversary of Peal Harbor.
I can not come up with any better than these from a Pear Harbor survivor.
“Freedom is never free, It looks like it never will be”
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This bill has been completely overhyped by the media. The bill does not in anyway take down the Internet. It very specifically states that the bill only applies to sites that are solely for the purpose of illegal actions. These sites are already illegal and this bill just makes it easier to prosecute them. It again differentiates between them and normal websites. This not apply to the vast majority of the Internet. Businesses like Google are against it simply because they would be too lazy to adjust their search engines.
These websites are again already illegal and do not have a right to exist. The bill is therefore not at all that bad. I feel it should be divided into separate bills for its many sections for better detail, but it is not a censorship bill. Its wording is not vague at all but actually very specific.
Funny. I thought the media were the guys backing the bill… I know the Motion Picture Association of America is one of the main ones. Pity none of them know how computers work otherwise they’d see that it’ll be like throwing a snowball into a furnace for stopping piracy.
Everyone, there are less than 24 hours to go in the Avaaz petition to block SOPA. As of now, there are 988,610 signatures. Senator Ron Wyden said he will filibuster or block any vote on the bill by reading out the petition names until the clock runs out!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?cl=1446234886&v=11522
And here’s the new alternative bill, called OPEN:
http://keepthewebopen.com/
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