This is just as bad as the FBI cracking down on the ICP.
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This is just as bad as the FBI cracking down on the ICP.
Not to mention the problems that already exist with current copyright enforcement measures would be multiplied hundredfold. The easiest way to take down somebody's site these days is not a DDOS, but a reasonably professional looking DMCA notice. It doesn't matter whether there actually is anything infringing. Webhosts are terrified and will happily pull down sites based on such spurious claims. Now imagine that happening at the DNS level. And copyright owners aren't known for their due diligence in submitting DMCA claims, so there will undoubtedly be many innocent sites getting served notices based on the simple misfortune of having a word like "batman" used enough to be visible to the less-than-amazing webcrawling bots that companies use to sniff out copyright infringement.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
I think there is a bit more to it than "oh no, no more free musics"Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
It would really hamper the speed at which ideas in the US travel. A lot of stuff latches on and attaches itself to things made by companies. Most memes are made from commercial material (probably with hacked copies of photoshop).
Really, think about what the internet is. How we interact. What we interact with. Then make it illegal to use copy written material. Boards like TNL would be shut down. There is so much copy written material posted here, it is crazy. Magazine scans. Game concept art. Quotes from other print sources without proper situations. The what are you listening to and what are you watching threads would be enough on their own.
And it would really hurt the preservation of the past 50 years. How am I going to show anything old to anyone if this passes? How will I show them old tv shows, music videos, books from the 80s? 70s? 60s? 50s? Hope the copyright holder does a rerelease?
Yeller wants to act like he is above this shit, but he's posted enough songs and licensed cartoon stuff on his facebook to get his account deleted.
This will flat out ruin talking about modern culture online. It's going to be 97 all over again, and we're going to be stuck typing out shit that is easier to just link to, but we can't link it or post it because their is a copy right on it.
Copy written, you say?
Here's a simple way to know how terrible an idea this law is: Try to think of one significant online innovation that, before it grew legit, wouldn't have been subject to being banned by SOPA. Google? Banned. YouTube? Banned. Facebook? Banned. Twitter? Tumblr? Wiki? Oh and a trial/conviction doesn't have to occur, just the accusation of copyright infringement. They want to severely damage the future of industry in order to protect archaic industry. They can go fuck themselves.
No, it was a blantant and obvious personal attack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
The obvious example would have been embeded movie, music or game clips since the bill actually effects those things. The bill DOES NOT censor sites because some individual who uses the site had broke conpyrights with the use of a different site.
Stop being a cunt and leave me and what I've done out of threads. I don't bring it up, its irrelevant here and everywhere else and you're acting like an asshole without provocation.
[Edit]: Eh, I actually don't want to make this thread about you, so I'll move my comment elsewhere.
The other issue, and I've brought this up before, is that copyright itself hopelessly broken and enforcement of copyright to the letter of the law could have dire consequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
When you have a world where media is fleeting and 99% of works have a very short commercial life, and yet the media they're stored on is temporary and volatile, it doesn't make sense to have 100 year terms of copyright. I know it sounds hyperbolic, but actually enforcing copyright on out-of-publication works is more destructive than book burning. Restoring a reasonable, renewable copyright term isn't going to hurt businesses, but it's going to do so much for preservation and archiving.
Fuck SOPA and the PIP Act. We don't need a Soviet Union of America sneaking up on us. I'll keep track of my senators' and representatives' stances on SOPA and the PIP Act. If they support these bills, I don't want them in office.
If you're referring to the city of Batman, Turkey then your site could get flagged by the Pinkobots on suspicion of Batman DVD/game rips or something.