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The goal of CISPA is to completely eliminate any sort of privacy online. It really is a Big Brother bill, and that isn’t hyperbole.
CISPA is orders of magnitude worse than SOPA/PIPA. We need to mobilize like we did before, and stop this.
Agreed. And from what I’ve read, not too many people know about this.
Next step: control over the internet This graphic sums up CISPA pretty well.
A more correct analogy would be someone that takes left over food from restaurants and gives it to the poor. The intended audience are no source of income to the movie industry. The Kabul Best Buy does not carry the latest movie last time I checked, nor are the soldiers likely to see this stuff on the silver screen. They will not be “missed” by other intended users like your pipe organs were. No, movies are not required sustenance like food, but if it helps a few of the soldiers feel as if they are appreciated or gives hope to some of them for returning to a normal life, it will be worth the price.
T. Wiley, of Chicago, commenting on movie piracy by 92-year-old Hyman Strachman of Long Island, who sent all his copies to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at his own expense
Now, American lawmakers want to take things one step further on their own turf. They are putting the entertainment lobby ahead of their own voters, by seeking to pass legislation that puts the US on the same playing-field as Iran, China and North Korea.
What will the internet be like after SOPA? Imagine a library filled with nothing but fliers, catalogues, and calling cards. That will be the internet in a nutshell. If content holders go crazy with copyright complaints, the only websites left will be sites belonging to companies with teams of lawyers, or advertising sites, or personal or organizational sites made by people who know how to build non-copyright infringing sites, none of which will have comment sections. In other words, it will be boring.
Ariane Barnes: ‘SOPA will be the death of the internet’
UK: you are a terrorist if you pirate stuff Britain is more f***ed up than I thought. Almost as bad as a New Zealand politician thinking that the internet is Skynet. We can, of course, trace all of it back to US entertainment industry lobbyists.
Judge decimates BitTorrent lawsuit with common sense ruling | TorrentFreak
One of the few people in position who can see past the BS. I haven’t looked into the court yet and how persuasive a precedent this is. What I do know is that the pre-August 2011 copyright régime worked here, and works in the US, and the new one will be weakened, if ever so slightly, by common-sense judgements such as this.
(Source: chelfyn)
Copyright Amendment Act an epic fail
I jokingly call Hugh Lilly, Hugh Linky, because of his obsessive fascination with and curation of the web. He tirelessly posts links to required reading.
Every now and then, he finds something truly awesome, like this column by Peter Griffin, in The Listener, where he criticizes New Zealand’s ridiculous copyright law.It is not only accurate in its criticism, but perfectly articulates the frustration in this country, and why kiwis illegally download in the first place.
How very true. And this year, there have been two times where I have had to Torrent something legally. Well, it’s looking likely that we will set up VPN and Torrenting on our box in the US for the rare occasions when I need this material.
Happy three strikes day, New Zealand!
If any of you had the extreme misfortune to watch the live parliamentary session reading/ringing in the “3 strikes” copyright infringement/guilt upon accusation law change, then (like me) you were probably vacillating between incredulity at our elected official’s lack of clue about the internet…
Every internet user needs to read this post in full to understand their rights. New Zealand has entered a dark age for civil liberties.
