What's wrong with SOPA, anyway? Nothing, according to the RIAA, which has firmly rejected a proposed alternative to the bill
designed to address due process issues. Among other shifts, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act would shift oversight of infringing site policing (and shutdowns) from the US Department of Justice to the International Trade Commission, a move the RIAA says creates too many delays and doesn't make sense.
The following statement on the matter is from Mitch Glazier, Senior EVP at the RIAA.
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aa Friday, January 06, 2012
makes sense. international organizations are largely symbolic. very much inefficient and terminally unproductive.
doesn't mean SOPA is perfect, but passing OPEN would be like passing nothing at all. a new release of music or movies makes the majority of its money in the 6 months following release. so, OPEN would be wholly ineffective.
Visitor Friday, January 06, 2012
Mitch is right on this one. OPEN is a joke...
this is crazy Friday, January 06, 2012
33 months?!
And we thought 2 days for a DMCA notice response was on the edge of acceptable.
I guess the NSA is so much in love with Google that they don't want their puppy to get any financial damage.
visitor Monday, January 09, 2012
there seems to be a prevailing sentiment that google is the internet. Google is a library. think of it like a librarian. They don't create the books, they help you find them. they are not in control of what books get made, and it's not their job nor responsibility to limit accesibility based on moral claims etc. More importantly, it just won't matter if you impose google exclusions. So you won't be able to google search them, great. So i'll use yahoo. and then you'll impose on yahoo and I'll us bing. ad infinitum. it's just not a real solution and the implications are highly serious. it's like carpet bombing a town to maybe hit 2 targets.
Visitor Saturday, January 07, 2012
SOPA is imperfect, and has to be adjusted to prevent abuses, but something of this power is necessary. The devaluation and infringement of intellectual property has gone on long enough.
- Versus
Yves Villeneuve Saturday, January 07, 2012
Food For Thought Saturday, January 07, 2012
@Yves - SOPA language does provide for countersuit remedy against anyone making false allegations.
wallow-T Saturday, January 07, 2012
Sure, all you need to countersue is a few million dollars to hire enough counsel to fight the major label lawyers.
James Sunday, January 08, 2012
Currently its the thousands of independent artists who are in this same position of not being able to afford to legally challenge the multi-million-dollar tech companies who are stealing from them. The percentage of mistaken or fraudulent copyright claims issued by labels is absolutely miniscule compared to the number of legitimate copyright claims by artists that currently go unheeded by the tech firms.
Food For Thought Sunday, January 08, 2012
Exactly. And keep in mind that the passage of SOPA would only hold foreign websites to the same U.S. laws that exist for U.S. based websites.
The rest of what you're hearing about how SOPA will break the Internet, limit free speech, etc. is intentional mis-information generated mostly from Google and the so-called consumer protection groups they fund (and then seized upon & spread by anti-copyright bloggers).
Google makes SERIOUS bank on advertising search results and links to these foreign based sites that feed non-stop, unlicensed, illegal music and movie files.
woodsmits Monday, January 09, 2012
So what are the names of those tech companies that are doing all the stealing?
double standards Sunday, January 08, 2012
Google is mocking the artists by publising all the DMCA notices on the Chilling Effects website, Pirate-Bay-style.
Why isn't anyone talking about this?
Where are the journalists?
Wow... Monday, January 09, 2012
If the RIAA had a pair of balls I would kick them. Hard. Repeatedly.
@paulgreenberg Monday, January 09, 2012
Shocker.
Sigh.
Don't Kid Yourself Monday, January 09, 2012
SOPA is a door to shutdown freedom on the internet and nothing else. It goes hand in hand with the recent NDAA. Wake up, world.
Griff
Food For Thought Monday, January 09, 2012
@Griff's comment is just wrong. Point to anything in the bill's language that confirms that SOPA is just a doorway to shutdowns and a lack of Internet freedom.
Wake up, indeed. Your fears about SOPA are spurred directly from misinformation being spread by big business interests, namely Google, to continue allowing them to profit at the expense of creators.
We all know that the mere mention of the RIAA is enough to make many take an opposite position, but if you actually read this bill, look at the numerous constitutional experts who've reviewed this bill favorably for U.S. citizens' rights, and look at the many, many creator/business groups (outside of the music or movie industry) that support SOPA you'll realize that by fighting it you're choosing the financial wealth of Google (and overseas criminal enterprises) over the health and rights of American creators.
LetMeEnlightenYou Monday, January 09, 2012
SOPA is the doorway to shut down domestic websites and stifle internet business, and it's not just Google saying this. Experts on web design and web engineers, the people who make the internet function and understand it, are opposing it. The language of SOPA holds the individual website owners legally accountable for the uploads of their users. It is impossible for any large website with massive amounts of user generated content (Youtube, Reddit, Blip Tv, Twitch TV, Livestream, Deviant Art, and so on) to track every single submission and check it for a copyright violation. However any of these companys who could possibly have their copyright infringed would then have the possibility to shut the entire page down. This kind of law is far too easily abused, and basically opens the door for corporate espoinage against competing websites.
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