U.S. Congress - S.968 PIPA
S.968 - PIPA
A bill to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for other purposes. view all titles (6)
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- Official: A bill to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: PROTECT IP Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 as reported to senate.
- Short: PROTECT IP Act of 2011 as reported to senate.
- Popular: PIPA.
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It’s a foot in the door to censorship. Government regulating internet browsers and search engines? Are you kidding me? It’s the responsibility of the content providers to adequately protect their intellectual property, not the strong arm of the federal government, and they have the ability to create the technology to do so. The federal government isn’t even supposed to have general police powers, according to the Constitution. Not that I would expect anyone who supports this bill to know anything about that, though.
You like youtube? You can’t go on that site anymore. It will be blacklisted by this bill
That’s one reason why this bill must get destroyed ASAP!
Another example of liberal fascism masquerading as “protection”.
The bill is bipartisan. But it is absolutely fascism.
Boo the other guys go our team? This bill has bipartisan support in congress and bipartisan opposition from the public. If you stop recognizing the chances to cooperate they will slowly die away.
Listening to downloaded music is infringing on “intellectual property”??
You’ve GOT to be kidding. What’s next, making us pay to hear music on the radio? This is nuts. It’s another tactic by the current socialist regime to shut down any and all internet freedom.
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This is what I sent to Rob Portman (R-OH). I won’t bother with the Dems. They won’t listen anyway.
I oppose S.968 – PROTECT IP Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
This proposed bill is another example of Big Government intrusion into our internet freedom and freedom of speech. Patrick Leahy, the sponsor of this censorship bill, was already defeated in his last attempt:
“The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would have permitted a blanket takedown of any domain alleged to be assisting activities that violate copyright law, based upon the judgment of state attorneys general.”
To his credit, it was a democratic senator, Ron Wyden (OR) who blocked the passage of this ominous crap.
“Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.
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As I have said, please oppose this bill at all costs!
There is the possibility that this Bill could destroy YouTube, Twitter, and other sites that rely on user-generated content.
I oppose bill S.968 one trillion percent.
Free speech my aSS! Would any member of congress please take the time to address why exactly I have 2 rods and 6 pins in my spine fighting for this country’s freedoms when our very government is the ones who need to be knocked off their high horse and given a bath; you are all pretty dirty for the bills you have passed previously. This bill proposal is something we’d expect from the original al-Jazeera, now it’s America, Inc. turn to impose those restrictions on us? For your information the people must give their consent to be governed, and that consent can be revoked at anytime.
You know… people will find a way to steal or download whatever they want regardless of this bill. And simply because these organizations spend all their money suing people instead of protecting their content.
This is a giant waste of time. And only exists because some bean counter at some point said “No, we don’t need to spend more money securing the content”.
All those organizations who support this bill, and are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to congress-people…
Spend that money making your organization SMARTER than the downloaders.
If I leave my garage open, and keys in the car EVERY NIGHT. Whats smarter, spending millions suing all the joy-riders, or closing the garage and buying a $10 masterlock?
Who wants to bet that piracy increases, and this bill adversely affects sites like YouTube if it passes?
Free speech and the free flow of information that the internet provides are my most cherished rights. They must be protected.
This bill is an abomination and must be stopped. Our government is acting in a totalitarian manner by censoring the internet and the information that citizens can view – which we ironically criticize China for doing. There is massive potential for this bill to be grossly misused by the government and other agencies which no citizen should be comfortable with.
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It is absolutely disgusting that this sort of thing is even taken seriously and being considered.
Ever notice how it’s the INTERNET BASED COMPANIES that oppose this? Interesting.
Ever notice how they don’t bother to get the opinion of the public at all? Also interesting.
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I Think The S.968 Bill Needs to Be Rejected!!!!!!
I totally agree. We will find out what happens very soon. Keep your fingers crossed!
Please don’t get me wrong, but it would be fun/interesting to see this law actually make it. I can’t stop imagining the size of the absolute chaos that would immediately follow the implementation. Would it the effect be a similar kind of nation-wide disorder as the Prohibition in the 20’s? It would be mayhem to say the least, because try to imagine a widely used site as Youtube being entirely banned from the internet due to “copyright infringement”.
If this is a joke, then Hollywood beats Jay Leno. Haha.
You don’t realize, there wouldn’t be threats for theft if you didn’t post it on the internet in the first place. That’s completely self-grave digging. Nintendo supports this? FUCK nintendo, you idiots obviously don’t USE the internet you want to regulate. You will never get this to pass.
I disagree. While things are much easier to steal if they are already posted, there is most definitely threat of theft even if you never touch the internet. People can do things like rip songs off a CD and post it online. The artist, publisher, and record company could never post any part of a recording on the internet themselves and it could be stolen using the internet, fitting in the scope of this bill.
If this bill does go through and goverment does have a control over a majority of websites….what if that power gets into the wrong hands? hackers or terrorist then they will have a control over everything that keeps us moving every day cyber war is real!…Please dont allow this to go through for the sake of our country!
Government hands ARE the wrong hands. The internet is safest when it’s free and open.