Here’s How to Force Congress to Block SOPA and Save the Internet

The American Civil Liberties Union, Free Press and the Save the Internet campaign have made it clear that the Stop Online Piracy Act poses a genuine threat to human rights advocacy and whistleblowing on the web.
Yet, the measure continues to advance in the US House, even as a Senate variation on it, the Protect IP Act, has been put on hold by Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden.

That’s why Internet sites have been going dark in protest today.

If the bill is stopped, it will be by political action. But that won’t be easy. Powerful lobbies, including Rupert Murdoch’s still considerable and influential DC operations, are backing it.

The only way that members of Congress, especially top Republicans in the US House who tend to defer to Murdoch and Fox News, will oppose SOPA is if they recognize that they could be threatened politically if they take the wrong position on the further of the Internet.

Is that possible? Yes, Indeed, in at one remarkable case, the message has already been sent—and received.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/165717/heres-how-force-congress-block-sopa-and-save-internet

This is just blatant circumvention of the DMCA.

PIPA Protest Roundup and Whip Count Summary

OpenCongress is back online – as of a bit after 8pm ET, our anti-PIPAstrike action has come to a close. Thank you everyone for helping to spread the word and understanding why we joined a huge, huge, sprawling, informed, diverse, public-spirited, energetic, entrepreneurial, reality-based, passionate, design-richcoalition to protest PIPA & SOPA, the worst Internet bills in history and together the most-opposed legislation by the OC user community in the past year.

First, a piece of big site news (which unfortunately still pales in light of the fact that the #PIPA & #SOPA net censorship bills are still very alive & terribly dangerous)  Today’s #PIPAprotest has already blown away our record for most web traffic in a day. That’s tops since we launched way back in 2007,…

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2463-PIPA-Protest-Roundup-and-Whip-Count-Summary

Yup, but that is not it, eventually theyll see any website against them as a threat or find some stupid way to censor it to, infact we might not be able to post anything on our mind at all on the internet.

Walmart might not be supporting this bill since any of the Walmart brand items being sold from their online site might get them in a legal bind since some of their items have been changed in a way to where they still fall in place of a name brand item with their logo on the label. Or does the bill not pertain to that?

2 Corinthians 3:17: “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (New King James version)

Ecclesiastes 3:17: "God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Matthew 12:36-37: "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

1 Peter 4:5: “They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead”

Rev 11:18: "….And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”

Opposing this bill is tantamount to opposition to private property rights.

Support the Protect IP Act of 2011 if it is changed to be enforceable and to define theft of IP as a crime that requires the thief to pay restitution for each violation to each citizen/victim of the theft. The analogy I would offer is similar to the theft and sale of credit card information. If someone comes into a place of business and transacts business, the business is entitled to use the credit card information only for purposes of the current transaction. If it collects and sells that information to another party, that is treated as theft. The same should hold for any information disclosed by one party to another party.

Further, in the Protect IP Act of 2011, the very definition of those who are subject to the act – an entity “dedicated to the infringement of IP” puts an unreasonable burden on enforcement to prove that the entity is “dedicated” to infringement.

Hope you don’t like Youtube, Pandora, Spotify. They will all cease to exist if this is passed. Post a like to a song you like to twitter, facebook, myspace or any other and you are in violation also. Next you can’t listen to music in your house or car with the windows open so other people hear it. Small bands doing cover songs will be next on the hit list. After awhile all you will have access to is government run web sites and then they will start telling you what to think.

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.

Folsom v Marsh, 9 F.Cas. 342

Fair-Use or the exception to author and inventor exclusive rights to a creation or discovery made the Copy[rite] Act unconstitutionally vague in 1976 in addition to the fact that the rite was not accessible for paupers. The Act had been a rite or regulation for copying art and discoveries for the “Barons and Nobles” in the United States that was only enforceable by courts if “licenses to sue” had been purchased.

Google Inc Attorney, Michael Henry Page Esq, stated purchase of “licenses to sue” are required for enforcement of copy rites although copy[rites] occur when a camera’s shutter is released.
Yes, RITES and NOT “rights”.

SOPA alleges to encourage copy[rite] enforcement and Google is fundamentally opposed as should be expected. Google Inc exists exclusively because of unfair uses of §107 or unconstitutional United States’ fair-use.

1) how will ANYTHING cripple wire communications?
2) Worst by who’s standards? DMCA encourages IP theft.
3) Who DEEMED it unconstitutional. What portion does it violate?
4) I will not care at all nor will millions.
5) Evolution has no direction.
6) VETO doesn’t matter.
7) Innovation of ways to “hack” and circumvent these laws has already begun.
8) OPEN just replaces the justice department with the immigration department and gives all US sites a free pass as is unconstitutional on its face.

Your best chance to stop these 2 bills is if your elected idiots believe the whining masses who “click” protests and call or email numbered lists of idiotic allegations like @walker7 has posted are voters. AACK Ha

“internet” wire communications are mostly illegal now. FCC ignores the mission to regulate ALL wire communications. Whine louder but 2 + 2 can only be 4. See 47 USC § 151 and whine more.

I can not believe that there are 24 completely misinformed people who actually support this bill. As P.T.Barnum stated… there really is one born every minute.

did you read anything about this bill besides the words ‘intellectual property’?
read the comment under you.

example: some guy pirates a movie, and posts part on youtube. youtube is then shut down/sued out of existence for.. copyright infringmint?

8 years of videos are uploaded to youtube everyday. they have about 60 employees.

the current laws allow youtube to be informed of this content and immediately remove it.

but there are millions of sites this applies to, not just youtube or video sites.

O.o

If this sounds like bribery to you, you’re not alone. Sign this official White House petition to investigate this act of blatant bribery.

But even if SOPA and PIPA are really dead (which they definitely are not), while we focused all of our attention on them, at least two other bills are being pushed that are as bad if not worse. ACTA (which is actually a treaty, not a bill), and PCIP.

ACTA

ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (wikipedia article).
I’ll let this video explain what ACTA does. (see link)

The worst part is, for years the text of the treaty has been kept secret. According to the wiki article:

“Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause ‘damage to the national security.’”

Despicable.

PCIP

For more info on PCIP, check open its page on OpenCongress

PCIP stands for “The Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.” It was introduced by, surprise surprise, Lamar Smith, the same scumbag who introduced SOPA. Why is he so persistent you ask? Well, according to OpenCongress.org, the largest portion of Lamar Smith’s campaign contributions come from the TV/Movies/Music industry. He’s not really passionate about this issue he’s just been bribed. Sorry, people of Texas district 21, but your Congressman has been bought and no longer represents you…

Internet wire communications users think these bills needed to be passed to work. SCOTUS ruled the Berne Convention selected by Congress in 1994 is the authority on copy[rites] and ruled this constitutional and not disturbing free speech or anything else. See Golan v Holder, (10-545)

p12 REPLY BRIEF <<<<

“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.”

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

I never said you should try to hide Mr Neeley…

Who would you try to hide from anyways?

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.

…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

H.R.3261 is the House Version of this bill …. This bill Needs to be rejected … It has nothing overall to do with intellectual Property Protection and more to do with corporate control. This would Effect All aspects of what we are used to with the Internet and Open the Flood Gate of legal problems in direct concerns for this bill.

This gives way to an American version of Censorship that China now currently has, in the guise of “Protection”.

The effects of this bill are far reaching … It will not only just effect Youtube, Facebook, Google and so forth .. it will also effect community PHBB boards, Ezboard, Yuku.. and the list can go on.

This bill gives no consideration to Individual rights.

I was waiting for a big news outlet to finally talk about this story HuffPost did. It is well known in some places on the web. There was a lot more than just all of the sites that joined together to participated in the blackout that caused Congress, and others, to back down quick on SOPA and PIPA. A little mentioned, but very real cyber war was waged in many ways…

I also read a very good article today in a CT paper about how former Senator Chris Dodd was hired to push SOPA through, even though that is illegal for him to do until 2013. It is not online yet, but I will post it when it is

Of course Dodd will not comment to the CT media hammering him now…