It simply amazes me that censorship of ANY kind would be implemented to protect creative materials. I get that copyright infringement is illegal, but since the internet is so vast, the measures to stop it have to be equal if not greater. In this case, anyone – including YOU – who has posted a link to such material could be shut down along with your website. And in the cases of Facebook and YouTube, since they cant police all of the users, they intend to police the sites themselves. All those people who post videos of themselves doing song covers, links to scenes from movies or TV shows, posting images of paintings or photographs not in public domain and things of that nature are all fall under shut down offenses.
At the end of the day, this is about money. The Motion Picture Association of America and the RIAA are two huge lobbies behind this act and they arent happy. I get that. On the other hand, what if I see a great cover of a song and go and purchase the iTunes version from the original artist. Or what if i never saw Office Space but have seen enough snippets that I want to, so I go and rent it or buy it. It could happen.
There is more to the PROTECT IP Act but this is not a political site so I would urge you all to learn quickly about it before you go to sign into your favorite channels and they arent there, or worse, your IP has been banned and you arent.
via PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet on Vimeo.
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
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