Posted on 01/19/2012 1:02:21 AM PST by Sprite518
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Well worth the watch and share it on your Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, etc..
Government would use SOPA to kill the Internet and our liberty. They don’t like us exposing what they do.
The media had been hiding SOPA . Thank God Google put a message on their web site. Hopefully Google does it again.
I’m a believer in copyright laws – but – have a box of old reel to reel tapes of music from the 70s. Unfortunately my tape deck no longer works and no one can repair it due to obsolescence. I can’t find any new decks either.
When I’d buy a new album I’d tape it the first time I played it. LPs had a way of getting scratched and warped.
The government, politicians( harry Reid too), and the media say it is about protecting copyrights. That is a lie .This SOPA effectively breaks the Internet and Is government censorship.
We can’t allow government to have this kind of power. Government must keep hands off the Internet.
Thanks for sharing...
This video is not as important as the one you can find by youtube searching SOPA and CNET.
ALL OF THESE COMPANIES (VIACOM, DISNEY, CBS, NBC) DISTRIBUTED THE PIRATING SOFTWARE (THROUGH CNET) THAT THEY LATER SUED PEOPLE FOR USING. THEY HAD LINKS TO PIRATED MP3’S ON THEIR WEBSITES PRACTICALLY BEGGING PEOPLE TO BREAK COPYRIGHT.
THEY SHOULD BE SUED FOR SPREADING PIRACY.
Copyright infringement should be handled on a case by case basis by the copyright holder, just as it’s always been. What medium will be next, print?
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