Guess which proposed law is making a comeback?

Snader

Hint: it's the Stop Online Piracy Act.

http://a.fightforthefuture.org/sign/obama-sopa

Y'all might want to sign this thing. (not the bill, the petition against the bill)

Paradan

dam for a sec there I thought maybe this was gonna be about that old "First Night" law from medieval times .

Anuxinamoon

Even though I don't live in the US any more I still signed it with my old address.

aajohnny

Like the listen to the American people anyways... I still signed it.

Jessica Dinh

Thoughts about this?

Bibendum

Jessica Dinh wrote: »

Thoughts about this?

Probably the best thing I've read about SOPA

Justin Meisse

I'm not for it but it's a bit sad that they rank opposing SOPA higher than human rights.

Bibendum

Feel like I must have missed something, where'd that happen?

low odor

Vio

Dam there are so many stupid laws floating around these days. The European court of human rights given prisoners the vote is another good example. I'm sure SOPA will be all over the world at this rate. What will they think of next?

"We propose that the penalty for jumping off a building higher than 7 stories is death"

JamesWarren

I dont really know too much about SOPA to be honest, but I found this TED talk to be pretty interesting.

Justin Meisse

"We need SOPA to wake the sleeping giant in this country. It could have been our generation's Rodney King verdict."



slowly backing away from this thread

almighty_gir

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

I'm not for it but it's a bit sad that they rank opposing SOPA higher than human rights.

interestingly, isn't it a human right to have access to whatever information you feel is right for you? to be allowed to censor yourself and to have the basic freedom to say "you know what? i won't read that, but that's my choice".

Ace-Angel

Jessica Dinh wrote: »

Thoughts about this?

Holy hell, someone went ahead and read my mind and posted everything online.

I hope that one week in Vegas doesn't come up....

Ben Apuna

Here's a nice article on the subject of IP by Mike Loukides.

On pirates and piracy - O'Reilly Radar

A quote from it that really resonated with me:

"I am not willing to sacrifice this generation's great artists on the altar of Hollywood. I'm not willing to have the next Bach, Beethoven, or Shakespeare post their work online, only to have it taken down because they haven't paid off a bunch of executives who think they own creativity."

Here's another good (and entertaining) TED talk on this issue:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0"]Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod - YouTube[/ame]

Dylan Brady

Ben Apuna wrote: »

Here's a nice article on the subject of IP by Mike Loukides.

On pirates and piracy - O'Reilly Radar

A quote from it that really resonated with me:

"I am not willing to sacrifice this generation's great artists on the altar of Hollywood. I'm not willing to have the next Bach, Beethoven, or Shakespeare post their work online, only to have it taken down because they haven't paid off a bunch of executives who think they own creativity."

Here's another good (and entertaining) TED talk on this issue:

Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod - YouTube

Yuss, thanks bBen was thinking of linking that.
this is pretty sad but we all knew this was gonna happen.
My biggest concern after SOPA was that the internet wont be able to get the energy going again to stop it.
we'll see but they've basically been trying to pass tight Copyright laws since the early 90s.
in some cases they've been successful, in others they've lost steam.

David-J

Another link on this. now Netflix is involved.

http://rt.com/usa/news/netflix-sopa-pac-lobby-618/

almighty_gir

David-J wrote: »

Another link on this. now Netflix is involved.

http://rt.com/usa/news/netflix-sopa-pac-lobby-618/

guess i just found my final reason to end my netflix sub

low odor

maybe don't cancel it so quickly

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120409/14562618435/no-netflix-has-not-formed-pro-sopa-superpac.shtml

almighty_gir

i was going to anyway, the UK version of Netflix is diabolical.

Alberto Rdrgz

just another day in the USSA!

"in soviet america, internet is not free!"

Vio

Just you wait till its not an election year in America

"Spasiba Obama!"

Ben Apuna

@Alberto Rdrgz:

lol!

"In Soviet America you don't search the internet, it searches you!"

SubPablo

hah, I was expecting the thread to be about this:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/07

Yo dawg, I heard you liked depressing news...

David-J

I was amazed how different Netflix is per country. Netflix in Mexico is way better than Netflix in the US.

EarthQuake

David-J wrote: »

I was amazed how different Netflix is per country. Netflix in Mexico is way better than Netflix in the US.

How so?

David-J

It's just the quality of content. Here in the US you get a few recent releases. When I visited Mexico a month ago, we opened Netflix and all their recent stuff was actually recent. For every recent movie you have on the the American Netflix you would have 5 more in the Mexican Netflix. I don't know how the licenses work so different or if they buy different licenses per country.

EarthQuake

David-J wrote: »

It's just the quality of content. Here in the US you get a few recent releases. When I visited Mexico a month ago, we opened Netflix and all their recent stuff was actually recent. For every recent movie you have on the the American Netflix you would have 5 more in the Mexican Netflix. I don't know how the licenses work so different or if they buy different licenses per country.

So you get recent US releases in Mexico before we do, or are you talking content created in Mexico?

I guess I haven't really noticed with the recent releases because I don't really care much about that stuff, I watch a lot more older/obscure stuff than the latest hollywood movies or whatever.

AZelenski94

i havent really read up on sopa = whats the pros/cons

David-J

EarthQuake wrote: »

So you get recent US releases in Mexico before we do, or are you talking content created in Mexico?

I guess I haven't really noticed with the recent releases because I don't really care much about that stuff, I watch a lot more older/obscure stuff than the latest hollywood movies or whatever.

Overall content, more commercial stuff is available in Netflix Mexico. you still get all the obscure and older stuff but add on top of that a good collection of recent commercial releases.

Back to topic, seems like Netflix is not supporting SOPA but it's not against it. Seems like Netflix is trying to stay neutral. I would rather be openly against it. I'm trying out Amazon Instant Video now and it's looking good so far.

Weirdboy

AZelenski94 wrote: »

i havent really read up on sopa = whats the pros/cons

It doesn't really have any pros...

AZelenski94

Weirdboy wrote: »

It doesn't really have any pros...

what are the cons then"?