[wplug] Thoughts on SOPA and PIPA

[Zachary Uram]

Yes and the thing to keep in mind in terms of due process rights and
SOPA is that there need not be ANY corroborating evidence that a
rights holder has a *legitimate* claim that there is due cause, they
only need to make the *accusation*. This is un-American, totally
arbitrary and illegal. Did our forefathers fight so dearly for our
rights so that greedy media companies can take them away without ANY
proof. And they are hypocrites too because media companies can be
directly linked to aggressive port scanning, unauthorized packet
inspection, malware and and other means they employ to illegally
invade the network and/or computers of Internet users. I've read cases
of old Grammas being hauled in to court and sued for $50,000 PER SONG
because a media company found illegally downloaded heavy metal music
on her computer. She had no idea it was even there, obviously someone
gained access to her computer illegally and was using it as a host for
their warez. But she was held responsible. This is outrageous. There
are countless other examples out there. And sadly this illegal and
unconstitutional behavior on the part of the media companies has gone
on for years all with the blessing from our courts. These companies
also are not very bright because they have alienated nearly their
entire customer base by treating them like hardened potential
criminals. Not a very good business model.


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Jason Freshwater
<jdfreshwater at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Biggest problem that leads to piracy are the media companies
> themselves.  The main problem is that people want on demand media through
> the internet, when that is not available to them, this will lead to more
> piracy.  There will always be some piracy, but look at the music industry,
> yes sales may be down, but they are still selling albums, just now in a
> digital age.  When they got rid of the DRM, it did not stop people from
> buying music, they still continued.  The problem is that we now have access
> to millions of bands, where there used to be half of that in retail stores,
> so big labels are not getting all of the money. When they restrict the way
> in which we can use media it just hurts them more than it does us.
>
> Sopa is not to stop piracy, it is to avoid due process on those who may or
> may not have downloaded something illegally.

-- 
Zach
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