Artists: it's time by NefariousDrO
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I'm joining sites like Wikipedia.org in protesting a very misguided law currently under consideration in the United States Congress.
This law purports to protect artists from copyright theft. Unfortunately it is the equivalent to using a hammer to kill a fly: you may kill the fly eventually, but not before you've punched a large number of holes in your walls, at the very least.
This would throw the door open to those who've already tried to use copyright laws to stifle criticism and dissent, offers few protections for those wrongly accused, and insufficient oversight. Do you make fanart? You could be targeted. Think that's an extreme example? After Sony Pictures bought the rights to produce the first "Harry Potter" movie they spent the next two years sending threatening letters to every fan who'd produced a website devoted to their love of the "Harry Potter" books. Fortunately they were eventually shamed into backing off those threats, but not before they'd sent their lawyers after several hundred teenage girls. Now they won't be sending letters, they'll just be contacting the host and demanding it gets shut down.
The big media conglomerates don't want competition, they don't want the market to change, and they don't want to have to actually do their homework. They just want to keep running the game the way they always did, and we will have no alternatives.
Join the fight, sign the petition, and make your member of congress decide the risk of losing the next election isn't worth the money they've been offered to pass this ridiculous law:
http://americancensorship.org/
Comments (10)
MagikUnicorn
Cool idea
eekdog
i heard about this, so many sites could be shut down by the g-men.
brewgirlca
Indeed, this is a huge threat to internet artists, scientists and indeed anybody who desires and lives by free speach. Sign this petition and better yet write to you congressman and demand she/he vote against this bill.
auntietk
They are listening.
geirla
Thanks for this reminder!
jocko500
thanks for the imform. i signing now
T.Rex
This is just the first step in an attempt to take over the Internet for more nefarious purposes. Clinton and Gore tried this in the mid 1990s. The next step is pointing out "undesireables" for removal, based on reading e-mails and other spying on Internet users in the name of war against terrorists (like Jews, Christians, others labelled undesireable for the moment. See what happened under Stalin and Hitler).
shayhurs
The Artists are not the ones who would gain from the passage--we never were. Your production companies for movies and such are the ones who want it. Remember these are the yahoo's who wanted to make you buy a copy for every device you tried to put a song or a movie on--even if you were only moving it from your laptop to your desktop--they insisted you had to have two copies of the same film,/song/album. Bunch of greedy bastids...
RodS
It's all just another ploy by big business, and the politicos they have on thier payrolls. Protection for the 'little guy/gal' artists? Hardly.. More greedy bastards that want to make sure no one can take a crap without them making a buck from it.
greywolfe1960
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability."