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Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

http://lyrebird.livejournal.com/142941.html

Posted: Mar 31 2010 07:37 pm

That is terrifying. Years of hard work by Lawrence Lessig and others like him down the drain.

Posted: Mar 31 2010 07:38 pm

That should not pass, simply because the reason a copyright is a copyright in the first place is to stop people from profiting from other people's original work.

It is your right as an American to put something up on the internet. If it's not yours, the original creator should be at liberty to show it how they want it.

I don't believe that official music videos and the like will cease to exist, because if the companies didn't want them to be there, they wouldn't be there.

Posted: Mar 31 2010 09:20 pm

The scope seems impossible to police properly.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

This hopefully won't pass, they're already going to extremes right now. It feels like they're going as far as they can to see when we'll crack and bring them down ourselves.

Posted: Apr 01 2010 12:05 am

The blog mentioned even things like lolcats and such as being in the scope, how could they possible shut down everyone participating in the creation of demotivational posters and the like? That's a lot of god damn people to add in to the already staggering amount of people downloading music etc.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Oh fuck...My...poor skills with the internet

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

The only way around this is for one of us to start our own ISP and be very lenient.

Posted: Apr 01 2010 09:23 am

How does one go about doing that? Do they just buy a bunch of equipmen, hook it up somewhere and fill out some forms?