Thankfully, the two biggest villians on this bill are Dems.
Chris Dodd led the fight to destroy Glass-Steagall, which led Directly to the financial collapse of 2008. Now, he chairs the MPAA and is fighting to destroy Internet freedom. Can there be a worse or more harmful politician? Even bribed-boy Lamar Smith only just started to do harm. Dodd has been doing it for years. Ron Wyden is one of the few people blocking the rush to Nazify the Net, but corrupt Harry Reid is going to override his filibuster. The Full Pockets boys are in town, that’s for sure, with MPAA and RIAA loot pouring in their pockets.
A friend of mine in the industry told me music promoters are more crooked than boxing promoters, and cheat the hell out of artists. Although two wrongs don’t make a right, it’s an old saw that the biggest crooks are the first ones to use the law against honest people. Insurance companies are known for it.
Amazingly, this totally deadlocked Congress is unable to pass Anything of importance. Yet they are lightning fast to run off a cliff when the Bribing Boys pass the money. Congress sucks. They are the most hated bunch of corrupt fools in the nation. Even more than banksters.
The big companies that don’t support the SOPA blackout may be sorry when they find just what zealots can do. WMG jackboots YouTube all the time, taking down harmless fan vids that actually promote their songs; but they’re too stupid and lawyer-ridden to see that. Crony capitalism - if you can’t win in the market, get crooked Congress to pass a law, in behalf of big bribes and revolving-door jobs, like the one Chris Dodd just got as Chairman of the MPAA. Must be nice. Rape the people, destroy the US economy, then get a big job.
“There is no natively American criminal class except Congress.” —Mark Twain
“Thankfully, the two biggest villians on this bill are Dems.”
Baloney,, last i checked we own the house and it’s committee chairs. It would be IMPOSSIBLE for this to pass without Repubs doing it.
The GOP,,in an election year, has decided to attack the internet, by passing a bill allowing the US Govt to shut down sites they want.
They are NO friends of freedom. I am beginning to suspect they are actually trying to throw this election. Their main goal is to defeat the TEA mindset,,,period.
GOP, attacking the internet, to assist Hollywood that hates them, and is allowing Obama to “save” the internet. It’s utterly insane.
I oppose SOPA, but have to object to your attack of people asking for their songs to not be used in YouTube videos. People who write songs have an absolute right to control their public use. Nobody have a “right” to other people’s property.
And the YouTube system, as it is, isn’t a bad way to handle it. Pretty much anybody can post anything, although YouTube does go after some things aggressively, mostly it takes down things only with objection. If I write a song, I can ask to have others not use it. That is how it should be.
THe problem with YouTube is straight-up censorship.
It’s the modern lack of ethics, people who think they have a right to free downloads of songs and movies, that gives teh government an excuse for SOPA. If people would behave, if they would be civil, and not be stealing intellectual property and acting like it’s their right, we wouldn’t be fighting SOPA now.