[wplug] Thoughts on SOPA and PIPA

Ed Stewart KB3WRX stewart.ed at comcast.net
Fri Jan 20 17:59:03 EST 2012


Very good Zachary.

On 01/20/2012 11:56 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:
> 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.

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