Anyone else on top of this developing issue?
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
Piracy should be stopped. However, power is a dangerous thing and shouldn't be granted without careful consideration.
There needs to be a better encryption service developed that cannot be video converted, the studio system needs to pay for and license it, and indie producers are also going to have to pay for licensing encryption protection or watch their unprotected content get stolen.
That argument doesn't hold up when we're talking about the most blatant of sites. Otherwise if 1% of PirateBay is legally shared material does that give them a free pass? Just sprinkle in a little bit of legal material and that makes you untouchable?An NPR contributor likened it this morning to making all cars illegal because some cares are used in bank robberies.
Actually there are a lot of people out there who want to keep the "looting party" going. And they feel very "entitled". They have this disillusion idea that the movie and record industry are making money hand over fist and therefore they have a right to download illegal torrents, and that illegal torrents are "promotion" that are a net GAIN for the industry. These people are like 911 conspiracy theorists. There's no getting through to them.No one is saying that piracy is ok when being against SOPA.
So then, organization that is against people feeling they deserve free access to their property...complains when someone temporarily revokes free access to their property. Ah, hypocracy! But really, what else can they do to spin it?MPAA chairman and CEO--and former U.S. Senator--Chris Dodd railed against the blackouts, calling them "an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on [the sites] for information and [who] use their services."
[/QUOTE]Some interesting commentary from the MPAA:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57360499-52/mpaa-blasts-dangerous-anti-sopa-blackouts-as-stunts/
[quoteMPAA chairman and CEO--and former U.S. Senator--Chris Dodd railed against the blackouts, calling them "an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on [the sites] for information and [who] use their services."