Caution: I am not “officially dead” although I have gotten closer than most.

Neeley v NameMedia Inc, et al, (5:09-cv-05151)(11-2558) 8th Cir

Thousands and thousands of legal filings and exhibits you can view for free from three-plus years. You can also ignore them. You can’t impact the ruling in the least. Try realizing SOPA and PIPA meant absolutely nothing except to corporations who purchased copy[rites]. The United States is the most backwards copy[rite] country on earth.

The United States will not remain backwards when I am finished litigating against Google Inc, Microsoft Corporation, NameMedia Inc, and the FCC.

PERSONAL rights to exclusively control original visual art will finally be recognized as an inalienable right and not the rite granted by the United States for copy[rite] registration fees.

House Kills SOPA: http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa

Now that SOPA is officially dead—as well as CurtisNeeley—next is its sister, PIPA. Kill PIPA: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2458-PIPA-first-on-Senate-agenda-on-Jan-24th-2012 !

Thank You president Barack Obama for doing the right thing and opposing this bill!

Congress ready to drop SOPA vote after White House says it would not support legislation that threatens openness of Internet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/16/sopa-shelved-obama-piracy-legislation?CMP=twt_gu

Eric Cantor (R-VA) in House will probably kill SOPA (OMG!!!!!):

http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa

This looks great! Now, don’t forget about killing PIPA this week!

this bill itself is an act of treason. this is why we have due process.

from p12 in conclusion of REPLY BRIEF linked<<<<

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.

More Big News: White House Will Not Support SOPA & PIPA:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/white-house-sopa-pipa_n_1206347.html

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120114/09513217409/white-house-comes-out-against-approach-sopapipa-response-to-online-petition.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

BIG ONE!: SOPA shelved until ‘consensus’ is found:

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found

Please, explain how protecting the intellectual property of another from theft is against anything you have read from our Founding Fathers.

“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.

Hell yeah. I’ve been on Reddit lately, joined their resistance against it, and it looks like we’ve not only turned things around but that the bill is taking some serious damage from us, the tech community, and the human rights groups.

While SOPA (and PIPA) aren’t dead yet they’ve both got black eyes and broken knees. A bit more and I think we may well finish them off for good.

The best part is we’ve proven to congress that the internet community isn’t a ‘vocal minority’ as Lamar Smith suggests but a political force to be reckoned with. Whats happening now will help shape the future for years to come and will serve as a reminder to both the public and congress that bad legislation can be stopped. When the next SOPA, NDAA, Patriot Act, or anything like them comes… we will be waiting and we will be ready.

Have I got news for you!

Here is a list of the 61 senators that still need to meet with their constituents before the critical vote on January 24:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oe3mf/these_61_senators_are_refusing_to_meet_with_their/

PIPA’s own sponsors ask Senate to hold off on cloture voting:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120113/15120617405/pipas-own-sponsors-backing-off-bill-ask-senate-to-hold-off-voting.shtml
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2461-Six-GOP-Co-Sponsors-of-PIPA-Ask-Reid-to-Cancel-Vote

Ben Cardin says he’ll vote no on PIPA:
http://cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/cardin-statement-on-protect-ip-act

SOPA & PIPA Watered Down:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/01/13/sopa-and-pipa-watered-down/

DNS provisions pulled from SOPA (YES!):
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57358947-261/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa-victory-for-opponents/

It looks like we will be winning after all. But still, think positive!

Here, you can donate to Wikipedia for their blackout on January 18:

http://www.wikipediablackout.com/

Keep in mind that January 24 will be our best opportunity to kill SOPA & PIPA:

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2460-Jan-24th-Our-Best-Chance-to-Kill-SOPA

This is what due process is for. This shouldn’t be in congress.

Here is another petition that you should sign:

http://act2.freepress.net/sign/media_sopa/?akid=3197.9932533.UBz6X-&rd=1&t=2

@Geowil

I am a photographer with Berne Convention rights maliciously violated by NameMedia Inc and Google Inc. These rights were marginally tacked into the unconstitutional copy[rite] Act at 17 USC §106A. District Court ruled that these rights could not be violated online as was in egregious error and is appealed and pending. All search engines stopped returning my nude and figurenude art except Google Inc. Microsoft Corporation resumed after the court error. During this three-year litigation, Google Inc scanned 17-70 million books without concern for copy[rites] in New York libraries and uploaded three additional figurenudes done by me while facing me in court. Google took down these book photos. NameMedia Inc stopped display of my stolen nudes after months in court and the second DMCA notice.

I have individually done most of the things this bill can do in the last three years. Stopping piracy will not happen but the costs to pirates can be made higher.

It does a hell of a lot more then that. At least half of the sights that American’s use daily would be instantly taken down: YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, MySpace, Twitter, and any kind of fan site or non-corporation affiliated website that you might visit that talks about something they do not own the rights to. Blogs could also be taken down for just mentioning a product, or showing one, that they do not have permission to.

Complete corporate control of the Internet at it’s finest. I bet the fat cats pushing for this bill are jizzing themselves every hour just thinking about it.

Neeley you are either a shill for the industry or one of those over protective, corporation can do no wrong type, parents that think the Government should protect your kid from the big, bad world.

SOPA is bad for everyone. So what if businesses lose a few billion a year to piracy. That makes no legitimate argument for censoring the greatest tool of free speech ever created. Before you try to say “piracy is not a right” stow it; you know as well as I that abuse with this bill is going to be a certainty.

All SOPA and PIPA is, is a tool for the RIAA and the MPAA to take control of the Internet to try and boost up a business model that should have died out three years ago. No one of importance supports this bill; everyone that does support it has ulterior motives or are just plain ignorant of what this bill does; including you evidently.

Don’t like whats on TV, then do not watch it or let your kids do it; that is called responsible parenting.

You know that proposed bill will never work. It talks about censoring what you do on your own devices, that you bought and paid for. It is an invasion of privacy and there would still be ways to get around it.

Let this be a lesson to you:

You can not censor the Internet entirely; there will always be new technologies designed to defeat any censorship system and there will always be hacker groups ready to destroy such systems once put into place.

Porn will also never go away. What a person does on their computer is not anyone else’s business if they are not breaking the law. Free porn is not unlawful, so the whole argument is invalid.

You think OWS is bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet if SOPA and PIPA go into law. Anonymous and other hacker collectives will be over everyone that supported each like flies on the arse of a dead horse.

Please don’t pass this bill! It violates our freedoms and privacy on the internet!

Here’s a petition you might want to sign:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-electronic-arts-to-oppose-internet-censorship

Threats invalidate and reveal motives of anti-SOPA criminals. The anti-copy[rite] and anti-SOPA type here forget Google Inc being charged HALF-a-BILLION for already violating the principles of SOPA.

The future ruling of the Supreme Court in FCC v Fox et al, 10-1293 was apparent after the oral arguments. Transcript PDF
Decency regulations will be upheld but may require some adjustments.

The trouble with SOPA is that SOPA requires purchase of copy[rites] and does not address the fact that the Copy[rite] Act in unconstitutional on its face.

Sony and Nintendo drop SOPA support: http://www.slashgear.com/sony-and-nintendo-drop-sopa-support-amid-anonymous-threats-03205579/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/opinion/fighting-online-piracy.html

and for all you Free Speech/porn supporters.
Today is the day the FCC will argue for broadcast decency from 6a-10p
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/10-1293.htm
FCC ability to require broadcast decency could be history after today!

Our Government is nothing but prostitutes to the rich now and have been for the past how many years? Yeah… I can’t call our government a government anymore

Compare democracy 1790-2010
Roughly 649,999 voters per Congressional Representative….
Roughly 33million and 833,285 voters per Supreme Court Justice…

Too late to fix this system in my opinion.

1. "In the… [pro-porn gibberish] …children!"

2. "It… [para-legal gibberish] …MOOT."

3. "The Telecommunications Act… [para-legal gibberish] …(2000)"

1. Well actually, it is Initially the duty of parents to protect children from even government supported inappropriate free speech. In the end, the government must take responsibility for government supported inappropriate free speech and has for nearly a century. Internet wire communications exist today because of the Communications Act of 1934.

2. Free Speech does not include “porn” that is “obscene”. MOOT is a cute legal term but does not begin to describe the “qualified right” you mistakenly find absolute and violated from the First Amendment.

3. The Supreme Court was CLUELESS about internet wire communications in 1996-2000 but is changing. The Supreme Court is not yet composed of internet wire communications era justices and will not be till around 2050. I will be 82 or be dead.

Our Government is nothing but prostitutes to the rich now and have been for the past how many years? Yeah… I can’t call our government a government anymore

So many fronts these days…

Maybe you should get involved on the other one too my old friend? Everyone is still at battle stations and ready to rumble again. We will make sure support is gone from anyone that wants to make money off of respect on the web. I’m not sure that will be enough in these times though. If this passes I can only imagine the backlash from what I am reading.

See you out there ;=)

This is eerily reminiscent of some things here.

“It’s been a few months since we’ve checked in with everyone’s favorite copyright troll, Righthaven.” 

“After an aggressive first half, Righthaven has been surrendering goal after goal in the subsequent months: some scored by Randazza and his crew of trollslayers extraordinare, some scored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and some own goals Righthaven shot into its own net.”

“So all in all, 2011 was a remarkable year for Righthaven, going from mass litigator supreme to on-the-ropes debtor.  We can only hope that the soon-to-be owner of Righthaven.com will have better luck (and fewer dubious legal claims) in their business endeavors.” 

http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2012/want-be-new-righthavencom-just-three-shopping-days-left