Showing posts with label Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Show all posts

Saturday, January 14, 2012

The SOPA Pits Hollywood Against Tech And The American People

 

We’re in for a fight on SOPA, folks.

 

The Stop Online Piracy Act Pits Hollywood Against Tech and the American People by Nick Sorrentino

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a nightmarish piece of legislation moving the House Judiciary Committee currently which Hollywood is pushing hard for. The Tinsel Town lobbyists are in full press on Capitol Hill, doing all they can to get the legislation out of committee and up for a vote. The problem is, SOPA in no uncertain terms is a direct assault on a free internet.

 

One of the reasons many of us get our news and entertainment from the Net these days is because we find the legacy media lacking. We have turned our backs on old media because it has failed to serve us. We no longer have to tolerate obvious and unceasing news bias, or watch only boxed and packaged melodrama. We are now free to pursue news and entertainment where we like with the click of a mouse or a swipe of the Ipad.

 

Hollywood, and most of legacy media are unhappy about this and would prefer that we continue to listen to their propaganda and watch their terrible movies. I mean, how many sequels can these guys crank out? SOPA seeks to put we the media consumers back in line.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Meatheads Of The Day (12-29-2011)

 

1)  The House of Representatives wants to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which would bamboozle bloggers, social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube. Congress claims they are protecting against copyright infringement. Strangely, Congress seems to en engaged in copyright infringement while they are trying to stop it.

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  1. How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website

  2. Hypocrisy- IP addresses assigned to House of Representatives engaged in illegal downloading

  3. Learn why SOPA is very bad here

  4. US House of Representatives- Internet pirates

2)  I was under the impression Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton was for people fighting for democracy.  Where was her mind when she told a Syrian freedom protester, who defected to U.S., the freedom fighters should lay down their arms?

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  1. Outrageous… Hillary Clinton Tells Syrian Freedom Protesters to Lay Down Their Weapons