| P3Games,LLC supports the fight against SOPA | |
| Posted by PhantomFire on Jan 18, 2012 12:00 am | |
What is SOPA? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites like Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, and others may cease to exist in their current form if this bill is passed. What is PIPA? The Protect IP Act (PIPA, S. 968) is SOPA's twin in the Senate. Under current DMCA law, if a user uploads a copyrighted movie to sites like Youtube, the site isn't held accountable so long as they provide a way to report user infringement. The user who uploaded the movie is held accountable for their actions, not the site. PIPA would change that - it would place the blame on the site itself, and would also provide a way for copyright holders to seize the site's domain in extreme circumstances. The Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out four excellent points as to why the bills are not only dangerous, but are also not effective for what they are trying to accomplish: The blacklist bills are expensive. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that PIPA alone would cost the taxpayers at least $47 million over 5 years, and could cost the private sector many times more. Those costs would be carried mostly by the tech industry, hampering growth and innovation. The blacklist bills silence legitimate speech. Rightsholders, ISPs, or the government could shut down sites with accusations of infringement, and without real due process. The blacklist bills are bad for the architecture of the Internet. But don't take our word for it: see the open letters that dozens of the Internet's concerned creators have submitted to Congress about the impact the bills would have on the security of the web. The blacklist bills won't stop online piracy. The tools these bills would grant rightsholders are like chainsaws in an operating room: they do a lot of damage, and they aren't very effective in the first place. The filtering methods might dissuade casual users, but they would be trivial for dedicated and technically savvy users to circumvent. Info from sopablackout.org/learnmore/ Read more now SOPA: Why it matters to you |
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| Komitadjie | Jan 18, 2012 1:07 am | |
| It's quite apparent that it's a bill drafted by a few large media companies, trying to give themselves total control over the internet. I mean, we're talking the RIAA here, the same whackos that were suing 12-year-old kids because they downloaded some crappy pop song. Would YOU trust them with this kind of power? I think not! |
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| Michi | Jan 18, 2012 2:28 am | |
| *claps her hands* Great way to get people to notice! | ||
| fluff17 | Jan 18, 2012 5:49 am | |
| I don't understand what any of it means but it's really annoying that every time I go to Index my screen goes black >:( | ||
| Kami Mi Ke Neko | Jan 18, 2012 8:08 am | |
| fluff - at least it's not like another site which has apparently disabled the entire site itself with the blackout. Not sure if they intended to do that or it's a glitch but you can't click past it. LOL And I support this as well. Basically it means that if they DO pass those ridiculous bills that anything we say or post on the internet can be removed and we can be fined for it if some corporation "says" it's in violation of copyright. So large corporations get to decide what we can post on the internet. It could go so far as to even restrict things like photographs of your cat if someone sees some product IN those photos that they take offense to. Sounds extreme but if you give the government and large corporations the ability to chose what we can post, you're taking away the freedom of the people. The "common people" will wind up paying the price - you and me - while the net savvy/hackers will go underground and this "piracy" they are trying to stop will happen anyhow. |
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| PhantomFire | Jan 18, 2012 11:20 am | |
| The sites that ARE disabled mean to do so. that is what will happen if this bill passes. Anyone can claim "piracy" and the government without trial, investigation or inquiry will shut the site down. This is why these sites are blacked out. So people understand we MUST fight this bill. | ||
| karalynne | Jan 18, 2012 2:35 pm | |
| Surely...suuurely this can't be passed! | ||
| Yam McYam | Jan 18, 2012 2:49 pm | |
| As someone directly suffering from internet piracy (as in, the average graduation to job time in my field is an entire year), I think it's cool that they're trying to find a solution. But the SOPA would cut off every single website that I'm using to network, therefore it totally defeats the purpose of itself because "new" grads like myself would be even worse off than we already are. So I'm glad P3 and other petsites are protesting too. I really hope it helps, or our BFF Mr Obama vetoes it to death if it ends up getting passed. |
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| PhantomFire | Jan 18, 2012 4:06 pm | |
| In theory, it's a nice thought. In practice it would end up breaking the internet down. |
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