p99/red99 slated to get shut down when SOPA passes

[Humerox]

Let's not forget the Senate version of the legislation, either.

PIPA


In answer to the posting about how all this would have passed by a landslide if it had been voted on like it was supposed to be...

This is NOT the first time this has been gunned down. COICA was the first attempt and it was gunned down. Grassroots campaigns by people such as Demand Progress and Stop American Censorship have brought millions of emails and telephone calls directly to the White House in recent months...and that's the reason the legislation has been stalling. GoDaddy just had thousands of accounts pulled because of their previous pro-SOPA stance, and I say previous because the almighty pocketbook of the 99% made them change their minds.

You can sit back on your butts and talk about it, or you can join up and help with an email or call.

I been harping on this stuff ever since COICA...glad to see others are waking up to it.

[Humerox]

Originally Posted by RandonActs [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, if I am understanding this correctly, I can get banned/thrown in jail/sued if I sing someone else's song. But if a popular musician does a cover of someone else's work it is ok?

We could look forward to the Aussie example (Australia has a blacklist type legislation enacted) of Men at Work being retroactively sued by the new copyright owners of Kookaberra (Larrikin Music), who actually won 5% of royalties for the song for a three-second flute riff.

On 4 February 2010, Justice Jacobson ruled that Larrikin's copyright had been infringed because "Down Under" reproduced "a substantial part of Kookaburra.


If a 3-second flute riff - which was incidental btw - is substantial...
Also, this after 28 years of time that the previous copyright owners had no issue.

Crazy BS...plain and simple.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let's not forget the Senate version of the legislation, either.

PIPA


In answer to the posting about how all this would have passed by a landslide if it had been voted on like it was supposed to be...

This is NOT the first time this has been gunned down. COICA was the first attempt and it was gunned down. Grassroots campaigns by people such as Demand Progress and Stop American Censorship have brought millions of emails and telephone calls directly to the White House in recent months...and that's the reason the legislation has been stalling. GoDaddy just had thousands of accounts pulled because of their previous pro-SOPA stance, and I say previous because the almighty pocketbook of the 99% made them change their minds.

You can sit back on your butts and talk about it, or you can join up and help with an email or call.

I been harping on this stuff ever since COICA...glad to see others are waking up to it.

I'm a supporting member of demandprogress.org

I've personally spoke to Barney Frank via email over this. (likely one of his aides, but whatever...)

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Harrison [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a supporting member of demandprogress.org

I've personally spoke to Barney Frank via email over this. (likely one of his aides, but whatever...)

Good job Harrison.

[ZEROSUM]

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com...ney-frank.html

[ZEROSUM]

anyways, GoDaddy came out in support of SOPA.

The same day, they lost 30000 people, including Wikipedia.


Capitalism at work.


Wikipedia is also threatening to take down all their stuff if it passes. They did this with sucess in Italy before.

[Doublestep]

go wiki-merica

[purest]

interest groups that support sopa: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money

Top recipients for ALL supporting interest groups
Name Amount Received Vote On Passage

• Rep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7] $462,292
• Rep. Howard Berman [D, CA-28] $436,000
• Rep. Steny Hoyer [D, MD-5] $387,000
• Rep. James Clyburn [D, SC-6] $323,500
• Rep. John Boehner [R, OH-8] $289,350
• Rep. Addison Wilson [R, SC-2] $251,281
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D, CA-8] $250,050
• Rep. Michele Bachmann [R, MN-6] $235,367
• Rep. Michael Thompson [D, CA-1] $227,282
• Rep. William Owens [D, NY-23] $225,817

• Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] $1,383,541
• Sen. Patrick Toomey [R, PA] $1,116,789
• Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $1,049,215
• Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] $1,024,012
• Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH] $720,433
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] $656,875
• Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] $588,074
• Sen. Roy Blunt [R, MO] $543,651
• Sen. Marco Rubio [R, FL] $540,879
• Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] $523,500

Specific Organizations Supporting H.R.3261

• AFL-CIO
• Motion Picture Association of America
• Independent Film & Television Alliance
• National Association of Theatre Owners
• Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.,
• National Music Publishers' Association
• American Federation of Musicians
• Directors Guild of America
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• Screen Actors Guild
• National Cable & Telecommunications Association
• Recording Industry Association of America
• Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
• Comcast
• NBC Universal
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
• National Association of Manufacturers
• Concerned Women for America
• Viacom
• National Criminal Justice Association
• National District Attorneys Association
• Council of State Governments
• International Trademark Association
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• International Association of Fire Fighters
• U. S. Chamber of Commerce
• Americans for Tax Reform
• Let Freedom Ring
• National Football League
• Pfizer
• Johnson & Johnson
• Outdoor Industry Association
• National Electrical Manufacturers Association
• Association of American Publishers
• Ford Motor Company
• Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association
• Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
• News Corporation
• Society of Plastics Industry
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
• Software & Information Industry Association
• Entertainment Software Association
• American Association of Independent Music
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Merck
• Specialty Equipment Market Association
• Xerox Corporation
• Universal Music Group Inc.
• Walmart
• Dow Chemical
• Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
• Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
• Warner Music Group
• Major League Baseball
• National Confectioners Association
• Estee Lauder Companies
• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• CBS Corporation
• National Basketball Association
• Greeting Card Association
• Advanced Medical Technology Association
• Beam Global Spirits &Wine
• Sony Music Entertainment
• Adidas America
• Acushnet Company
• ABRO Industries, Inc.
• 1-800-PetMeds
• 1-800 Contacts, Inc.
• Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
• Bose Corporation
• Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
• Burberry
• Electronic Components Industry Association
• HarperCollins Publishers
• Kekepana International Services
• LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
• Nike, Inc.
• Nintendo
• Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
• Timberland Company
• Tiffany & Co.
• Time Warner
• Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association
• 3M Company
• National Retail Federation
• Retail Industry Leaders Association
• Viacom
• Philip Morris International
• National Association of Broadcasters
• Disney

[Jon Lemon]

weird when you follow the money it's almost like D and R don't even exist in reality

who'da thought

[Uthgaard]

It does when you look at the opposing side:

Top recipients for ALL opposing interest groups
Name Amount Received
Rep. William Owens [D, NY-23] $300,459
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D, ME-1] $203,700
Rep. Gary Peters [D, MI-9] $166,220
Rep. Niki Tsongas [D, MA-5] $146,400
Rep. Kurt Schrader [D, OR-5] $105,550
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D, CA-14] $100,759
Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8] $94,600
Rep. James Himes [D, CT-4] $88,964
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D, VA-11] $88,730
Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D, PA-13] $84,800

Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO] $1,320,304
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] $362,994
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA] $273,397
Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] $254,460
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] $251,244
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $224,784
Sen. Chris Coons [D, DE] $209,150
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D, CT] $156,849
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] $156,470
Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR] $135,950
Specific Organizations Opposing H.R.3261

Creators’ Freedom Project
Engine Advocacy
4chan
Boing Boing
Creative Commons
Daily Kos
Disqus
Grooveshark
Hype Machine
Kickstarter
MetaFilter
O'Reilly Radar
Techdirt
Torrentfreak
Go Daddy (lol)
NetCoalition
Consumer Electronics Association
Computer and Communications Industry Association
Public Knowledge
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDUCAUSE
Open Internet Coalition
Bloomberg
Google
Yahoo
Center for Democracy & Technology
Business Software Alliance
Twitter
Zynga
Facebook
AOL
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch
David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and co-founder of Alexa Internet
Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
Biz Stone, co-founder of Obvious and Twitter
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Tumblr
Mozilla
Union Square Ventures
MoveOn
Wikimedia Foundation
eBay
Reddit
American Civil Liberties Union
Consumers Union
American Library Association
Computer & Communications Industry Association
Human Rights First
Consumer Federation of America
Human Rights Watch
Microsoft
United States Student Association
Irregular Times
TechNet
Information Technology Industry Council
Association of Research Libraries
Entertainment Consumers Assocation
Writers Guild of America, West
Reporters Without Borders
Freedom House
Association of College and Research Libraries
Competitive Enterprise Institute
TechAmerica
TechFreedom
Demand Progress
U.S. Public Interest Group
Internews
New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative
Center for Media Justice
Center for Rural Strategies
Brookings Institute
American Society of News Editors
Benetech
Rackspace
OpenDNS