I'm very happy to see this.
AchtungBono said:I don't understand the problem.....isn't this legislature supposed to protect people from having their intellectual property rights breached? Isn't that a good thing?
I don't understand the problem.....isn't this legislature supposed to protect people from having their intellectual property rights breached? Isn't that a good thing?
this legislature gives corporations the power to shut down any website.AchtungBono said:I don't understand the problem.....isn't this legislature supposed to protect people from having their intellectual property rights breached? Isn't that a good thing?
you could be sure that an anonymous survey of all the staff from even just the next executive level down would show heavily anti-SOPA sentiment while still being heavily 'anti-piracy'. Shit like this makes it harder, not easier, to find a solution.
So what would some smart, doable, effective ways to combat piracy look like? I know a detailed answer could fill a multi-volume encyclopedia, but just a sketch overview.He gained fame in Germany during the dotcom bubble and, as many others, later was found guilty of fraud and cheating on the balance sheets.
Megaupload, just like torrents and other things, are very useful for so many legal things. I send everything via that site which is too large for e-mail.
The founders name is Dotcom. Seriously?
PS. I loved megaupload for boots. How much longer until they get Mediafire?
That really stinks. U2start is among the most amazing sites on the web, I really hope this won't cripple them.Shit, your right, a whole bunch of U2Start's bootlegs just disappeared, at least in their mp3 form, and at least for now. That's a little scary.
So what would some smart, doable, effective ways to combat piracy look like? I know a detailed answer could fill a multi-volume encyclopedia, but just a sketch overview.
Part of why I have a hard time working up much enthusiasm for this issue (though I have contacted my representatives about it) is the disheatening apparent reality that--as Schmitz's bio happens to illustrate--so many of the vested interests on both sides are lying, greedy, hypocritical corporate scum seeking to present themselves as righteous protectors of art/culture/ideas/knowledge, to appeal to an audience that in turn often seems to be worried more about loss of petty perks they never earned in the first place than by anything deserving of being called a commitment to intellectual freedom/liberty (look at some of the comments on that article, the usual pathetic dolts shrieking about how the US government is like Mussolini and Hitler because now they can't download their porn for free, etc.). I don't like to see stupid, hamfisted legislation that strangles legitimate opportunities for the many to protect the interests of the few get passed, but I'm also getting the sense there's an awful lot of knowingly insincere and token nods of acknowledgement to copyright going on, by people who have no intention whatsoever of respecting it.