This week the tech world will descend on Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. While there is nothing subtle about a 152-inch 3D plasma TV there are plenty of subtle forces coming from DC that shape what you see at shows like CES and at retailers like Amazon and Best Buy. Here are just four examples.
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So while both bills try to curb online infringement by tampering with the domain name system (DNS); allow private actors to de-fund targeted sites, and grant blanket immunity to certain intermediaries for taking copyright law into their own hands, each has its own peculiarities that cause additional problems.
Is PIPA worse?
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Is PIPA worse?
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Is PIPA worse?
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To start, there is no such thing as an infinite filibuster based on one person objecting to a bill passing. Such a dynamic is the stuff of Hollywood movies (ironically) and has not existed in the United States Senate for decades. Below I will summarize how the process will work and why citizen involvement over the next few weeks is critical. For a very detailed explanation of how the Senate filibuster works you should read this Congressional Research Service report.
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January 01, 2012
Issues:
On today's podcast we discuss the (near) end of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, MegaUpload vs. UMG and YouTube, and SOPA. We also have an extended interview with Robert Levine, author of Free Ride, How Digital Parasites are Destroying The Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back.
Listen to Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast here
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Issues:
Background: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and several colleagues have released draft legislation to curb online copyright infringement. Text of the draft and discussion of it is here.
The Twitter hash tag #open was set up to discuss the draft bill.
The following statement is attributed to Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director of Public Knowledge:
“We are very pleased that Senator Wyden, Rep. Issa and their colleagues of both parties in both the Senate and House have come up with a more reasonable approach to combating foreign copyright infringement than the bills currently before Congress.
Proponents of the "PROTECT IP Act" or "PIPA" or "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011" are trying to make it seem like PIPA is the reasonable alternative to its cousin in the House, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" or "SOPA." Some even say that SOPA's extremism might be an intentional ploy to create political wiggle room for PIPA.
In reality, PIPA and SOPA both jeopardize online community platforms and innovation, set a bad example for internet censorship globally, and threaten security online. True, there are differences in the legislation, but it's mostly a matter of degrees—in which PIPA is really bad and SOPA is scarily worse.
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Proponents of the "PROTECT IP Act" or "PIPA" or "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011" are trying to make it seem like PIPA is the reasonable alternative to its cousin in the House, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" or "SOPA." Some even say that SOPA's extremism might be an intentional ploy to create political wiggle room for PIPA.
In reality, PIPA and SOPA both jeopardize online community platforms and innovation, set a bad example for internet censorship globally, and threaten security online. True, there are differences in the legislation, but it's mostly a matter of degrees—in which PIPA is really bad and SOPA is scarily worse.
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In reality, PIPA and SOPA both jeopardize online community platforms and innovation, set a bad example for internet censorship globally, and threaten security online. True, there are differences in the legislation, but it's mostly a matter of degrees—in which PIPA is really bad and SOPA is scarily worse.
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In reality, PIPA and SOPA both jeopardize online community platforms and innovation, set a bad example for internet censorship globally, and threaten security online. True, there are differences in the legislation, but it's mostly a matter of degrees—in which PIPA is really bad and SOPA is scarily worse.
[#printed] => 1 ) [links] => Array ( [node_read_more] => Array ( [title] => Read more [href] => node/6426 [attributes] => Array ( [title] => Read the rest of PIPA v SOPA. ) ) ) )Take a Stand Against PIPA: Call Your Senators Now!
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The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, S.968, or the PROTECT IP Act, also known as PIPA, would have allowed the Attorney General to require domain name registries to "suspend operation of, and lock, the domain name" of a website the DoJ determines to be "dedicated to infringing activity."
No one favors the theft of intellectual property, but there are a number of serious issues with the way both PIPA and SOPA try to tackle the legitimate concern of websites that infringe copyright:
preservesthe openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.
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