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CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.
Renegade:
Looks like an RIAA/MPAA propaganda/indoctrination mission didn't work out too well for Paramount at Brooklyn Law School:
Paramount's Post-SOPA 'Outreach' To Law Students About 'Content Theft' Still Shows An Out Of Touch Operation
Worth a read.
-IainB (April 13, 2012, 03:36 AM)
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From the prof's notes:
Perry finally discussed SOPA and PROTECT IP. From Paramount’s perspective, these were proportionate measures targeting foreign sites and providing for a measure of due process
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Proportionate? Well, I don't think I need to point out how utter ridiculous that is...
"A measure of due process"? WTF? Is he on crack? Due process is kind of like being pregnant or dead. You either are or aren't. You either get due process, or you don't.
These people are completely out of touch with any semblance of reality.
TaoPhoenix:
"While he said he didn’t want to get into copyright math,..."
Haha! So the minute a properly calculated hard number appears, it might reverse his "noted that" talking points!
And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)
Renegade:
"While he said he didn’t want to get into copyright math,..."
Haha! So the minute a properly calculated hard number appears, it might reverse his "noted that" talking points!
And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)
-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2012, 04:30 AM)
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+1
Hollywood Accounting is every bit as real as the A-Team~! :P
erikts:
Facebook defends support for CISPA monitoring bill
Other tech sponsors strangely silent
"HR 3523 would impose no new obligations on us to share data with anyone – and ensures that if we do share data about specific cyber threats, we are able to continue to safeguard our users’ private information, just as we do today,' said Facebook's Joel Kaplan, vice president of US public policy in a statement on the site.
"We recognize that a number of privacy and civil liberties groups have raised concerns about the bill. The concern is that companies will share sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity. Facebook has no intention of doing this and it is unrelated to the things we liked about HR 3523 in the first place."
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IainB:
And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)
-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2012, 04:30 AM)
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+1
Hollywood Accounting is every bit as real as the A-Team~! :P
-Renegade (April 13, 2012, 05:05 AM)
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I disagree. The reality of Hollywood accounting would seem to be none too far removed, theoretically, from Government Accounting, according to this economist's amusing overview of the latter:
Why the State Demands Control of Money
It's all a useful fiction.
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