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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think of it this way you paint something that has a relavance to something else. a.k.a a joke or something. you are now a felon.
Furthermore, I don’t see any problem with spanking the brats who try to take other people’s work and pass them off as their own, but this is just ridiculous. It’s going to punish more than just the thieves. It will punish the mothers who send home videos to their soldier son overseas with copyrighted materials (properly attributed, mind you) used as the soundtrack (perhaps their son’s favorite song). It will punish documentarians who have no way to block out audio used in PA systems and are thus forced to “infringe on your copyright” with proper attribution in order to make their own free expression possible. Even worse, there is no warning system. If you “get caught infringing copyright”, BOOM, that’s it; you’re a felon.
I hear you, man, but this is not a bill to win back the “poor artist’s” intellectual property. This is an attempt by the business-oriented producers to ensure that their content is under draconian lock and key.
The Protest Site for this can be found at American Censorship Day
I say we should use are constitutional right to fight the government take these money grubbing people out of our government and remake our government to were you have to have a degree to in it and they have to swear a oath to up hold the constitution and if they break that oath they get the death penalty
Its amazing how money can influence anything, even if its so very and utterly wrong.
If this passes, I’m crossing state lines and going to Canada. No way will I be put in jail just for karaoke-ing a song on Youtube. This is such a joke.
235 years of fighting for freedom slowly going down the drain. It sure would be nice for our elected would represent the people instead of special interest. There is no doubt that this bill was introduced strictly for the monetary gain that will be received by our representatives and no consideration for freedom from censorship.
As shown, Google opposes this bill. Enough said there.
I can imagine the Internet as a nation in itself. Its citizenship includes millions, even billions of people from countries across the world. On the internet, people decide what is right and wrong, be it voicing their opinions, or even liking or disliking a comment. It’s simple and true democracy, at its finest. As such, the Internet has an efficient form of self government, where everyone can vote.
If any nation attempts to censor the internet, I’d say it’s comparable to an act of aggression on another country.
The Internet is the one true “land of the free and home of the brave,” where the citizens of the world can freely express their ideas and opinions. Let’s keep it that way!
Well, it’s the 17th and sites like YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook, and DeviantArt haven’t gotten blocked yet so, can anyone find out more info about this thing?
I am really AGAINST this bill as it would pretty much CRIPPLE the internet as we know it.
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Copyrights are important, but the mechanisms in this bill, the potential for abuse by right’s holders, and the self-censorship and prior-censorship that would occur will destroy the internet as we know it. It will become less social, less inter-connected, less stable. This bill truly scares me.
I will seriously consider suing the government if this passes.
lets make this simple.
1. it abridges freedoms including exspression and speech
2.its a pointles sbill that benifits the country and its real issues in no way shape or form
3. WHY THE HECK ARE THEY WASTING THEIR TIME ON DISTRACTIONS STILL?
Everyone has been doing a great job so far, but SOPA and PIPA are still not dead. Please continue to show your opposition to these bills!
We need to get people out of office that even THINK this is ok, rid us of the few rule the majority attitude they have now..
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1% Users Support Bill
We elect people to the United States government to represent the wants and need of the American people, not the wants and needs of these elected representatives or the wants and needs of the people with the most money. With only 1% of the people who view this bill actually supporting it, and with all of the opposition that we the people have made to show that this is NOT what we want and NOT what we need, why is it even being considered?
There are bigger problems they could and should be focusing on, but instead they delay and turn toward frivolous issues such as this. Leave our constitutional rights alone and focus on the important things. Like, oh I don’t know, unemployment and education.
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Be sure to read this too all you viewers here.
Join the Public Mark-up of SOPA
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2431-Join-the-Public-Mark-up-of-SOPA
I ask all viewers here to make your voices heard over here also.
I am a little dismayed by the fact that the site was “supposedly” Libertarian, being related to the Cato institute somewhat… but as you can see from the comment section…?
Anyways…it is an additional platform to be heard from.
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/112_HR_3261.html
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Whoops! hey “Where” am I?? Lol =D
Behave please…
Several points- First off, instead of fining people who have illegally uploaded songs or movies without the parent company’s permission, use sites like YouTube for free advertising. Every time that a media source comes across as being part of a third party’s property, it will send a link to a site where you can buy the song or movie, like iTunes or Amazon. $.99 × 3,000,000+ hits to send a viewer to a place where they can buy your copyrighted work? That doesn’t sound too bad. Funimation uses YouTube to advertise their products, and companies like Warner Brothers charge $5 for viewing a movie like “The Hangover” on YouTube. All that free revenue would be gone if SOPA is passed.
Also, being able to blacklist a foreign sight on suspicions that it might infringe on copyright laws? Isn’t that discrimination, and isn’t discrimination against U.S. policy and law?
Finally, instead of attacking sites under suspicion of copyright infringements, attack the bitTorrents and P2P’s.
How is SOPA different from DMCA in terms of what counts as copyright infringement? People are mostly crying foul about what shouldn’t be illegal, but SOPA doesn’t really make anything that was legal automatically illegal.
The only thing I think it really affects is safe harbor for websites and ISPs. The shutting down of websites and junk. But I’ve been reading DMCA and SOPA, and at least as far as individual websites, I think the same restrictions and protections still apply.
SOPA grants immunity to sites who combat copyright infringement and piracy, right? And ONLY those sites. DMCA is the same. It provides immunity to sites who
“adopt and reasonably implement a policy for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the accounts of subscribers of the provider service who are repeat online infringers of copyright.”
Just like SOPA. Both acts say “If you help us combat piracy, we’ll leave you alone. Otherwise, we’ll shut you down.” I don’t think anything really changes.
Anybody wanna help me out with this discrepancy? MiddleClass, you seem to be on the ball about stuff…
DMCA establishes limitations on the liability for online service providers for copy+right infringement when engaging in certain activities. In other words, the DMCA encourages infringement.
SOPA encourages enforcement of purchased copy+rights by making advertisers and “monetizing” type vendors subject to injunctions to force no longer conspiring with the infringing sites like they do now. That would be why Google Inc AdSense, Yahoo, Microsoft Corporation etc. are paying so much to defeat this bill.
SOPA is all about money because it encourages stopping foreign sites from infringing on copy+rights as long as 17 USC ยง 411 , “license to sue”), are purchased.
Neeley v NameMedia Inc, et al, (5:09-cv-05151)(11-2558) 8th Cir