A Happy Politician....... by Tholian
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"Yes, sir, you keep bringing me these here souvenir cases and I'll get that legislation through that will let you BLACKLIST, er sorry, Nuc any site that you THINK might be infringing on something that might or might not be your property without them pesky courts having anything to say about it at all!"
Normally I avoid commentary of this kind but the bills before the House and Senate at this time have the ability to shut down sites like Renderosity just because someone claims that it MIGHT have something infringing on it.
Very dangerous legislation indeed. If these bills pass the internet as we know and love it will cease to exist.
For those who might be interested one bill is called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) which, of course, will do little to stop so-called Piracy.
The other bill is called Protect-IP which, again, will be used to do nothing of the sort. Both of these bills are aimed at undermining the "Safe-Harbor" clauses of the DMCA (itself a barely tolerable bit of legislation) which protects sites like Renderosity from being responsible for the postings of it's users.
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Comments (23)
Savage_dragon
In my closed little desert world, I have no idea what you are talking about. But I'm sure not to like it! >:8(>
mgtcs
Splendid composition my friend, amazing poses and POV, gorgeous image!
daggerwilldo
Great commentary. To bad it has to ring so true/ Well done
barryjeffer
Along with all the other pending legislation on the table, this is bad... It would seem that the Iron Curtain never really fell, it was relocated to the shores of America. Bit by bit our Constitution is being ripped to shreads. But what the hell, after all The Almighty Decider himself the great and powerful BushII said it was, after all, nothing more than a GD piece of paper. great render and excellent commentary.
marineguy
Great image!!!! We are a society of fools.
Cimaira
I truly fear for this country! Excellent image.
tetrasnake
Fight the power, my friend! Excellent piece!
bazza
Great scene and frightening thought but hey they have already brought in a law here (NZ) which amounts to the first one you mentioned, to stop so called on line piracy.. If someone gets caught downloading illegal say music you can get fined and lose the use of the internet even if it isn't you that has done it, say a friend of your son came over and downloaded it, its your IP address that gets banned and the person who's name is on the account gets fined.
Faemike55
Very scary image and commentary
renecyberdoc
this now sounds more and more of control smells bad bro.
sigterm
byteline
What politician can it still be happy? Although, if he gets so much rap. Beautiful image.
shannonsuzanne
Great render. When it comes to internet they can't seem to allow ppl to have freedom of speech. Govt needs to get off their bottoms and balance budgets and stop infringing on us! And if we were to protest? They'd find some dumb rule to arrest ppl even though we were built on principles such as that. Our forefathers had more integrity. Today ppl are content to just be quiet :( I get into trouble b/c I still have the principles thing going.
MtnMist
Great image and statement. I'm painfully aware of the piracy problem as I find my books listed for sale by people with no rights to sell them (you know where that leaves the author and/or artist, etc. royalties). Even the largest pub houses are losing against rampant piracy. Politicians are more concerned with stopping you from playing poker online.
A_Sunbeam
They're all control freaks; never happy unless they can control every part of our lives. And the Internet, of course, is free. Some people just can't get over that.
adrie
Cool composed scene, superb work.
jenwencheng
Scary to think that this is a possibility...hopefully this doesn't happen. Thanks for the thoughtful and educational commentary/art.
velleman
Politicians are the last persons on Earth to deserve even a bit of respect.. Splendid idiotic expression on his mug :-).
drifterlee
THis is really cute!
HADCANCER
Don't you just love how those politicians slap those warm and fuzzy names on there bills like "Prevent Animal Cruelty" then hide all kinds of crap in them that have nothing to do with the title or directs money to there cronies that use the money to line there own pockets. Yep follow the money.
tofi
An interesting caption, and a detailed image of the going on's in the world of business. Looks like there's some kind of serious debate going on here. I really like all their expressions, and the very dressy and sophisticated business attire! Well done!
eekdog
wow, never heard about this.. like your display to the fact.
loligagger
Very bad indeed and they are trying to pass this kinda crap in my country too,great image!!!!!!!!!!