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SOPA Shelved - ACTA is Worse
Renegade:
Iain posted a joke in the NFSW silly humour thread, and it linked to this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117114202722218150209/posts/4GgaRiSyaTf
READ IT~!
No. Really... Click the link. You will thank me. Or thank Iain. Or both of us. But you WILL be thankful~! :D
Fine... If you're too lazy to click the link, then click here...Joel Spolsky - Jan 22, 2012 - Public
Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up :)
(1)
The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us... then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, "OK, compromise," and gets half of what they want. That's not the way to win... that's the way to see a steady and continuous erosion of rights online.
The solution is to start lobbying for our own laws. It's time to go on the offensive if we want to preserve what we've got. Let's force the RIAA and MPAA to use up all their political clout just protecting what they have. Here are some ideas we should be pushing for:
* Elimination of software patents
* Legal fees paid by the loser in patent cases; non-practicing entities must post bond before they can file fishing expedition lawsuits
* Roll back length of copyright protection to the minimum necessary "to promote the useful arts." Maybe 10 years?
* Create a legal doctrine that merely linking is protected free speech
* And ponies. We want ponies. We don't have to get all this stuff. We merely have to tie them up fighting it, and re-center the "compromise" position.
(2)
The dismal corruption of congress has gotten it to the point where lobbying for legislation is out of control. As Larry Lessig has taught us, the core rottenness originates from the high cost of running political campaigns, which mostly just goes to TV stations.
A solution is for the Internet industry to start giving free advertising to political campaigns on our own new media assets... assets like YouTube that are rapidly displacing television. Imagine if every political candidate had free access (under some kind of "equal time" rule) to enough advertising inventory on the Internet to run a respectable campaign. Sure, candidates can still pay to advertise on television, but the cost of campaigning would be a lot lower if every candidate could run geo-targeted pre-roll ads on YouTube, geo-targeted links at the top of Reddit.com, even targeted campaigns on Facebook. If the Internet can donate enough inventory (and I suspect we can), we can make it possible for a candidate to get elected without raising huge war chests from donors who are going to want something in return, and we may finally get to a point where every member of congress isn't in permanent outstretched-hand mode.
Stoic Joker:
The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us... then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, "OK, compromise," and gets half of what they want. That's not the way to win... that's the way to see a steady and continuous erosion of rights online.
The solution is to start lobbying for our own laws. It's time to go on the offensive if we want to preserve what we've got. Let's force the RIAA and MPAA to use up all their political clout just protecting what they have.
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Now that's brilliant! All we need is a small hoard of (mildly psychotic) legal types to start flooding them with a constant barrage of "legal" bullshit, and it'll be like hitting them with a courtroom based DoS attack.
Renegade:
The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us... then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, "OK, compromise," and gets half of what they want. That's not the way to win... that's the way to see a steady and continuous erosion of rights online.
The solution is to start lobbying for our own laws. It's time to go on the offensive if we want to preserve what we've got. Let's force the RIAA and MPAA to use up all their political clout just protecting what they have.
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Now that's brilliant! All we need is a small hoard of (mildly psychotic) legal types to start flooding them with a constant barrage of "legal" bullshit, and it'll be like hitting them with a courtroom based DoS attack.
-Stoic Joker (January 25, 2012, 11:31 AM)
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I like... No... I LOVE that idea~!
"Courtroom based DDoS"
Yeah. That would be nice. Just get enough people to sue to suck the f***ing life out of them.
;D
tranglos:
I don't really have a problem with theoretical communism (Marxism). I actually think that it is a better system.-Renegade (January 25, 2012, 10:00 AM)
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Be that as it may, it wasn't even communism that got whacked above, it was a seemingly insignificant entity known as Communist Party USA. I'm saying insignificant, because despite all the alleged subterfuge and infiltration, they don't seem to have influence the actual policy one bit.
bmikey:
Well, I would have figured that they will come back with something stronger with the SOPA/PIPA being put on hold. They are just not going down without a fight, and a good and strong one at that.
What they are probably going to do is give some leeway to those aspects that made people click and capitalize on those that aren't much recognized. ACTA, one for the kill here.
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