Kill SOPA, bill goes to house December 15.

[Jmustang1968]

Personally I really do wonder what a good and effective anti-piracy bill that doesn't step on the toes of legitimate internet users would look like.

Would it even be possible?

Probably not... not if it wants to be effective I am afraid... just hoping it won't be too rough.

[Czernobog]

Well when I was getting my Bachelor of Fine Arts we all talked about copyrighting our work quite a bit and almost everyone agreed that copyright itself is too archaic to work with the advent of the internet. We all used Creative Commons to protect our work instead.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Yeah, even if SOPA and PIPA go back to the drawing board lobbyists are still going to want something written and passed to go along with the Digital Millennium Act we already have. Another one called OPEN has been worked on and still has some problems but fixes a lot of what was wrong with SOPA and PIPA. I wonder if we'll be hearing about that soon.

Yeah I looked at that as well... but... IDK. Frankly the internet is one of the few places that really should be left well enough alone as is IMHO. The DMA is about as good of a compromise as there can be.

[fastbilly1]

So I just got an email saying SOPA and PIPA were dropped today!

They were postponed, not dropped

Shelved indefinitely does not mean dropped. It means we won this battle, but they will be back.

[Hatta]

Hopefully there will be another blackout when they pick this up again. They WILL pick it up again.

The REALLY scary part is that Lamar Smith has another bill in the works, this time not aimed at piracy, but aimed at child pornography. You can pretty much count on him moving the controversial provisions in SOPA over to PCIPA, at which point Google, Wikipedia, etc would have to appear to defend child pornographers to protect their own rights.

Lamar Smith really has it out for the internet.

[ATARI800XLfan]

So I just got an email saying SOPA and PIPA were dropped today!

They were postponed, not dropped

Shelved indefinitely does not mean dropped. It means we won this battle, but they will be back.

A win is still a win though I agree that while we won this battle the war is still not over for your internet freedom. Sadly as long as the movie industry is still greedy and buying politicians I fear it is a war that will never truly be over.

[J T]

Hopefully there will be another blackout when they pick this up again. They WILL pick it up again.

The REALLY scary part is that Lamar Smith has another bill in the works, this time not aimed at piracy, but aimed at child pornography. You can pretty much count on him moving the controversial provisions in SOPA over to PCIPA, at which point Google, Wikipedia, etc would have to appear to defend child pornographers to protect their own rights.

Lamar Smith really has it out for the internet.

Yikes!

That will be harder to protest effectively.

[YoshiEgg25]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201201 ... ught.shtml

Can we try to get this guy arrested for bribery of a public official? Somehow?

[Xeogred]

Hopefully there will be another blackout when they pick this up again. They WILL pick it up again.

The REALLY scary part is that Lamar Smith has another bill in the works, this time not aimed at piracy, but aimed at child pornography. You can pretty much count on him moving the controversial provisions in SOPA over to PCIPA, at which point Google, Wikipedia, etc would have to appear to defend child pornographers to protect their own rights.

Lamar Smith really has it out for the internet.

Yikes!

That will be harder to protest effectively.

Yeah this worries me. Anyone who would go against this would probably be viewed as supporting child pornography, when nobody certainly wants that. Seems to be the scapegoat for this bill. Backhanded trickery bullcrap stuff for sure.

[Hobie-wan]

Fun infographic about the movie industry complaining about technology improvements since film was invented and how it has helped them anyway.

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/28/infogr ... -long.html