As a wedding photographer I have a vested interest in stopping online piracy. My images are routinely taken and used without my permission. However, I I think SOPA goes WAY too far.

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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Link to above,

http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2012/02/considering-network-as-radar-detector.html

Considering the Network as the radar detector of the Multitude

…The difference between Twitter feeds about speed traps and Wikileaks dumps of the government’s classified interoffice memoranda is just one of degree. Without secrets, government must either persuade the populace of its legitimacy, or abandon legitimacy for force of arms. We can expect a decade or two of efforts by governments and other powers (corporations, cartels, and perhaps copyright holders) to try to use law (and force) to prevent the popular use of the network to expose institutional secrets, and it seems certain they will all inevitably fail. Trying to control the use of communications networks is like trying to exterminate the rhizome under your lawn. (Ironic, perhaps, that a technology designed by the military-industrial complex to ensure viable communications in the event of nuclear attack ends up appropriated by the people and able to withstand attack by its creator.) …

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New Iran internet blocking

Some days ago the Iranian government has ramped up censorship in three ways: deep packet inspection (dpi) of SSL traffic, selective blocking of IP Address and TCP port combinations, and some keyword filtering.

http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/blog/index.php?/archives/327-New-Iran-internet-blocking.html&user_language=en

Sound familiar??

…Dodd isn’t backing away or admitting that he might be to blame for underestimating Internet opposition or the technological fallout from what he and the MPAA have been trying to get through Congress.

For one thing, he points out that he is forbidden from personally lobbying members of Congress until January 2013. But there’s little doubt that he was hired to orchestrate the MPAA’s lobbying effort and to be the face of the SOPA campaign…

http://www.ct.com/news/advocates/latest-news/nm-ht05dvrsopa-20120124,0,584161.story

The Online-Piracy Mess: How Chris Dodd and Hollywood blew it with SOPA

A cool $1.5 million a year.

That’s what the Motion Picture Association of America is reportedly paying Connecticut’s formerU.S. Sen. Chris Doddto slide an anti-Internet-piracy bill through Congress. His insider knowledge, his old-fashioned liberal credentials, and his winning smile were supposed to make it all so very easy.

Except that Dodd and the MPAA and the hoard of other lobbyists stroking this issue for them now appear to be drowning beneath a tidal wave of Internet opposition. And just maybe Dodd’s sweet salary might have been better spent on someone more in tune with 21st Century technology issues than old-fashioned congressional politics…

I never said you should try to hide Mr Neeley…

Who would you try to hide from anyways?

With SOPA Shelved, Congress Readies its Next Attack on the Internet

One of the things that became clear in Congress’ push to pass Hollywood’s web censorship bills is that powerful corporations and the federal government do not want the rule of law to apply on the internet. The attitude that our basic freedoms and legal protections are somehow not valid on the internet is partly just the kind of reaction you would expect from entrenched powers whenever new technologies emerge, but it’s also a response to the particular peer-to-peer features of the internet that threaten to make their key sources of power — control of information flow — less relevant.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2475-With-SOPA-Shelved-Congress-Readies-its-Next-Attack-on-the-Internet

Let’s just face it. Our forefathers did not want this country to be a dictatorship, monarchy, or communist run government. Sometimes I feel this is what it is. Sooner or later we will be controlled on everything we want to do, safe or not, example: this. This is expressing how we feel and what we feel about games, gaming, TV, internet and a whole bunch of things, and yet they do not realize that if they shut it off, they will not be able to use it either. Sooner or later it will be a mixture of a monarchy and a dictatorship. I am not encouraging it, I am simply stating what I FEEL!

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Reno v ACLU partially set the CDA aside but four of those Justices have since retired. The Justices were too old to understand internet wire communications and most today still are. Most humans over 40 are as well. The Justice who wrote the Reno v ACLU opinion was 25 when the US bombed Hiroshima with the first nuclear bomb at the end of WWII and 48 when man first walked on the moon.

It is obviously PAST time for regulation of internet and cable TV wire and radio communications as already required by law.
It might not happen while I am alive but it will occur soon.

I already rejected offers of more money than ALL OF YOU HAVE COMBINED.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY FOR ME.

The need to censor internet wire communications is not secret but maybe I should shut-up and hide?
I will not post anything else here. Protest and call Congress all you want.

Hint….

“Fair” became how much money you have…

…With the passage of legislation censoring the Internet, the battle to stop the barbarian at the gate has only just begun. The purveyors of offensive material will continue their quest to make their material available; in all likelihood the CDA will prove to only be a minor inconvenience. The opponents of on-line censorship have moved on to the next battle field, the court room.(193) The only one leaving the field of battle will be Senator Exon, who announced, prior to introducing his CDA, that he would be among the stampede of Democrats retiring from the Senate this year…

… On June 11, 1996, a three-judge panel in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…

http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cannon2.htm

On February 1, 1995, Senator James Exon (D-Neb.) attempted to do what had never been done before—regulate speech on the Internet.(3) Introducing the Communications Decency Amendment (CDA), Senator Exon declared a danger to society: Barbarian pornographers are at the gate and they are using the Internet to gain access to the youth of America. Senator Exon proclaimed:
The information superhighway should not become a red light district. This legislation will keep that from happening and extend the standards of decency which have protected telephone users to new telecommunications devices.

Once passed, our children and families will be better protected from those who would electronically cruise the digital world to engage children in inappropriate communications and introductions. The Decency Act will also clearly protect citizens from electronic stalking and protect the sanctuary of the home from uninvited indecencies.(4)

@BTW The FCC “fair use” political broadcast rules still apply and were NEVER found unconstitutional in spite of your … stations are required to give equal time but at an equal price.

Well…… what happened to that law we had not to long ago???

Not yet…

@Case law can’t make 2 + 2 into 5 regardless of how long it has been treated as five by mistake

That is how our law works!

Unless you can bring a case that overturns existing case law it stands.

I overturned case law in my state…

Gee… thanks…