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SOPA will put JoeUser in Jail FOREVER
KrunkMcGrunk
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Sup SE++. There's a bill some of you have heard of going through hearings in the House Judiciary Committee called "The Stop Online Piracy Act". The hearing is to determine what mandates and provisions actually go into the bill. On the docket are:
1. It is a felony to upload any copyrighted material on the web without permission - punishable by 5 years in jail. Know that dumb video you and your friends posted up on Facebook when you all were drunk and sang a Journey song? That's copyright infringement. You could get 5 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for that.
2. Any website hosting copyrighted material can be taken down by the copyright holder if they send a letter to that site. No judiciary oversight, no due process, no burden of proof by the copyright holder. Did you do a sweet remix of Alice in Wonderland dialogue that you want to share with your friends over Youtube? Nice going, asshole, you just shut down Youtube for the entire US. And no one can do a thing about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY
Needless to say, the following shit probably won't exist under SOPA.
SOPA also does this:
Any website that has any copyrighted material uploaded or hosted will be shut down, regardless of who put it up. So, pretty much any website that anyone gives a shit about is done. Even our beloved Social Entropy++ could be a target, if someone uploads an avatar taken from a copyrighted photo. That person could also go to jail for 5 years - which means pretty much all of us are going to prison if SOPA is passed.
Personally, I don't like the idea of someone being Bubba's dance partner because he posted a cute animal picture. If SOPA passes, @JoeUser will have a rap sheet a mile long. And that's wrong.
You can still fight SOPA.
Go here. Fill out the form - it takes about 5 seconds, and could save JoeUser from death row.
1. It is a felony to upload any copyrighted material on the web without permission - punishable by 5 years in jail. Know that dumb video you and your friends posted up on Facebook when you all were drunk and sang a Journey song? That's copyright infringement. You could get 5 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for that.
2. Any website hosting copyrighted material can be taken down by the copyright holder if they send a letter to that site. No judiciary oversight, no due process, no burden of proof by the copyright holder. Did you do a sweet remix of Alice in Wonderland dialogue that you want to share with your friends over Youtube? Nice going, asshole, you just shut down Youtube for the entire US. And no one can do a thing about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxYNeedless to say, the following shit probably won't exist under SOPA.
SOPA also does this:
Any website that has any copyrighted material uploaded or hosted will be shut down, regardless of who put it up. So, pretty much any website that anyone gives a shit about is done. Even our beloved Social Entropy++ could be a target, if someone uploads an avatar taken from a copyrighted photo. That person could also go to jail for 5 years - which means pretty much all of us are going to prison if SOPA is passed.
Personally, I don't like the idea of someone being Bubba's dance partner because he posted a cute animal picture. If SOPA passes, @JoeUser will have a rap sheet a mile long. And that's wrong.
You can still fight SOPA.
Go here. Fill out the form - it takes about 5 seconds, and could save JoeUser from death row.
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Almost entirely positive that his response to this was "If y'all pass it it's getting vetoed, fuck you"
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You're not gonna send a baby to prison, are you?
Yeah, what would happen considering probably 90% of internet users have uploaded copyrighted material?
Can't break up a family, better send all of you to prison.
Babies get 30 lashes
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we didn't spend millions of taxpayer dollars on a prison for babies not to send babies to prison
enjoy visiting her at baby oz
Well, he also promised to veto the indefinite detention bill for month, which if I can be honest is a lot more threatening than an internet censorship bill, and then renegged on it a few days ago.
Oh god, yes.
I don't think so. He "promised" to veto the NDAA for 2012, which passed Congress with new provisions in it to allow for the arrest and indefinite detaining of American citizens without trial or proof of guilt.
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He
He hasn't signed this into law right
That hasn't happened
Please tell me that hasn't happened yet
Yeah but that passed with such overwhelming support that a veto would have been easily overthrown. I mean, going ahead and vetoing it anyway would have been a nice gesture, but that is all it would have been.
That depends. Do you live in Texas?
Yeah. How'd that end up for us?
At least in Mexico this shit is expected
It passed the Senate with only 7 votes against, and it passed the House with something like a 70% majority, and Obama has since backed off his veto stance, so yeah, it will probably wind up passing.
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exactly my thoughts
In Mexico, Sopa is a delicious meal!
Look, the information may be impossible to verify, and was pulled entirely out of the creator of the infographic's ass, but does that make it any less valid?
I think we can all agree that that infographic is horridly inaccurate. However, it's hard to argue that a dicey legal climate would encourage anyone to bet their livelihood on a web startup.
Regardless of all of that, SOPA is still abhorrent. Let us not forget.
I don't understand why that's a reason for him not to do it.
Why not make the gesture and stand up for what he believes in?
You should watch, they should be back from recess shortly
You should watch, that is, if you love being frustrated listening to our elected officials acting like douchebags (there are a few good eggs fighting to stop/amend the bill into something more reasonable, but they are losing badly)
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Typically in a fascist state, the state seizes private enterprise and not vice versa.
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the section from 12-20 seconds is really all you need to know on the subject
Why wouldn't it shut down Youtube and Facebook?