NOTICE!!
GRUMPY'S OPINION
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012
by Grumpy Elder
SOPA, Why We Need Wednesday’s Internet Blackout
Stop Online Piracy Act commonly known as SOPA, Nice sounding name,
Ever notice laws with the nicest sounding names are the ones that do the most damage?
Nothing there to make the average American nervous, most of us know that online piracy is a problem. But when we think of Online Piracy we think of Music, Movies, Designer Clothe and let’s pretend Rolex watches make cheaply in other countries then labeled to look like the real thing and marketed on line.
Even Pharmaceuticals are pirated, illegally labeled and sold online, to a great extent in that case we have competing pirates. Illegal online pirates are competing with America Drug Manufactures that engage in their own form of larceny.
Those are all the things most Americans think of when they think of online piracy. If you plan on asking me what’s wrong with stopping that sort of thing, the answer is nothing. It’s everything else that’s a problem. Most Americans use the Internet, most Internet users innocently engage in some form of copyright infringement. That is a form of online piracy.
Have you ever embeded a utube video into an email and sent it to twenty friends? With gmail all you have to do is put in the link and the video self embeds.. If the person that put that video onto utube to begin didn’t have absolutely sole owner-ship to the content, you might find yourself in violation of SOPA.
Ever copy a story from a newspaper or magazine site and email it to friends? Or even forwarded an email like that someone sent you?
Gotcha.. That’s a technical violation, and most ordinary users wouldn’t be at much risk– unless while you were out of town for a day your 18 year old son decides to throw a beer party for all 500 of his High School friends.. when the police arrive they smell a lot of pot and start looking for evidence.
Or if you post material like that on Facebook or one of the other Social Sites.
Utube may shutdown if SOPA passes and they aren’t the only ones, take a look:
URGENT!!!! Stop SOPA (HR 3261)
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Uploaded by SteffyKinz2010 on Nov 16, 2011
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!
LISTEN TO ME!
IF THIS BILL IS PASSED,
ANY AND ALL SITES CAN GO DOWN, INCLUDING YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, GOOGLE+, TUMBLR, BLOGGER, AND MANY MORE!
IF ANYTHING IS POSTED THAT VIOLATES THIS BILL:
(HR 3261)
IT WILL BE SHUT DOWN.
EVEN IF YOU ARE ONLY SINGING A SONG FOR 4 SECONDS, YOU WILL BE SUED.
REMEMBER ME TELLING YOU ABOUT THE INTERNET KILL SWITCH?
If passed, the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or SOPA (HR 3261), could rip apart the open fabric of the Internet. People could see their websites disappear from the Internet for a "crime" as innocent as posting a video of themselves singing along to a favorite song.
It paves the way for the sort of heavy-handed blocking tactics you'd expect to see in China, not the United States.
SOPA violates our right to free speech.
GO HERE TO HELP:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/sopa_letter/?source=facebook1
AND HERE:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/resolution_of_disapproval/
IF WE DON'T STOP THIS,
THERE WILL NOT BE AN INTERNET TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM ON.
ALL OF OUR HARD WORK WILL BE GONE.
Not that it MATTERS or anything.
LISTEN TO ME!
IF THIS BILL IS PASSED,
ANY AND ALL SITES CAN GO DOWN, INCLUDING YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, GOOGLE+, TUMBLR, BLOGGER, AND MANY MORE!
IF ANYTHING IS POSTED THAT VIOLATES THIS BILL:
(HR 3261)
IT WILL BE SHUT DOWN.
EVEN IF YOU ARE ONLY SINGING A SONG FOR 4 SECONDS, YOU WILL BE SUED.
REMEMBER ME TELLING YOU ABOUT THE INTERNET KILL SWITCH?
If passed, the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or SOPA (HR 3261), could rip apart the open fabric of the Internet. People could see their websites disappear from the Internet for a "crime" as innocent as posting a video of themselves singing along to a favorite song.
It paves the way for the sort of heavy-handed blocking tactics you'd expect to see in China, not the United States.
SOPA violates our right to free speech.
GO HERE TO HELP:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/sopa_letter/?source=facebook1
AND HERE:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/resolution_of_disapproval/
IF WE DON'T STOP THIS,
THERE WILL NOT BE AN INTERNET TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM ON.
ALL OF OUR HARD WORK WILL BE GONE.
Not that it MATTERS or anything.