Aren’t the same regulations that restrict usage on Free Republic still in effect? It worked for this website, why do we need more laws?
The entertainment venue uses the same technology to make a profit.
Unlike folks who sell products and services they have not yet figured out how to protect their "copies".
I think that is the entertainment industry's problem to fix ~ and I don't think I should have to give up any element of speech to help them out.
www.eff.org has a good article on it. according to EFF, congress went from 80 supporters and 31 opponents to 101 opponents and 65 supporters. In one day.
/johnny
SOPA is a ham- handed attempt by the government (as most govt efforts are) to solve a very real problem. Copyright law is rooted in hundreds of years of common law. At its very heart is the issue of an individual’s right to property and if copyright disappears it is only a matter of time before property rights disappear. It is not a slippery slope. The arguments are the same. In its current form the legislation does pose a threat to all kinds of civil liberties but the article’s author is correct, conservatives must rally behind an improved version.
Government has been looking for a way to appoint themselves Czar of the Internet since it caught on. The Clintons dreamed of doing it and Obama dreams of doing it as well. Any excuse is a good excuse when that much power is just sitting there inches out of reach.
Once they have established in law that they have authority over who can do what over the net, its a new day and one we aren’t going to like. They just have to establish the precedences and its game, set and match.
MSM and the DNC lost control of the masses because of the web.
They want it back.
If Chris Dodd wants it, I don’t.