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dlaz
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What gives? 1
#15683852 - 01/18/12 02:44 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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What's the frickin' SOPA ACT? And why are all the posted pix gone? Good ol' Big Brother?!... WTF?!!
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New HooN
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Re: What gives? [Re: dlaz]
#15683863 - 01/18/12 02:46 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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read the blackout thread at the top of the index
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Re: What gives? [Re: dlaz]
#15683866 - 01/18/12 02:46 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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dlaz
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Re: What gives? [Re: prismism]
#15683896 - 01/18/12 02:53 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanx for the thread. What a crock O' #*@!. I can't take beer to the library and do research; but I can sit in the comfort of my own home and read whatever my little heart desires. The whole world at my fingertips; well up until now if this bullshit passes. Thanx for the heads up.
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Re: What gives? [Re: dlaz]
#15683901 - 01/18/12 02:54 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sparkx said: If anyone's interested in reading the text of the legislature for SOPA it can be found on the Senate's website at http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm In 'Active Legislation' under the letter O for Online Piracy.
This link will further lead you to the Library of Congress-Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:H.R.3261:
Here you can see the basic summary, and full text. I find Paragraph 3 under the "ALL Information (except text)" link the most unnerving and will have the most visibile effect on the common user. The effect on websites/domains we use everyday will be even greater behind the scenes.
-------------------- Respectfully, Sparkx All information is obtained for mycological study in identifying and characterizing edible mushrooms. All suggestions are offered with a grain of salt as the gathering of this information is for microscopy and very well IS ONLY regurgitated information found across the internet, books and other media. It's okay you can ignore me because I'm female, society raised you to be sexist. I don't blame you, if the world told me I was superior I'd believe them too.
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Re: What gives? [Re: dlaz]
#15683943 - 01/18/12 03:03 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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dlaz said: The whole world at my fingertips; well up until now if this bullshit passes. Thanx for the heads up.
Nonsense.
SOPA is to prevent online thieves from stealing people's hard work. I strongly disagree with those protesting this bill. The only ones who hate it are those who think it's their right to steal the work of others. If you want software, movies, or my DVD for example, simply buy it. Offshore torrent and other illegal download sites which steal copyrighted work and then make millions of dollars by illegally distributing it can be shut down.
All this does is level the playing field back to the way things were in the pre-digital age. Back then, you couldn't check out a book from the library, set up a printing press and make millions of copies to sell, or you'd go to jail. That however is just what is happening now, and there's no stopping it without this law or a similar one.
I refuse to release another DVD or even my nearly-completed book on commercial cultivation until things change. Why should I dedicate years of my life to making a product just so it can be illegally downloaded and I don't get paid for my work? RR
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Agreed. Buy, don't steal.
But RR, the writing says "to carry out certain preventative measures including withholding services from an infringing site or preventing users located in the United States from accessing the infringing site"
Who determines the site/user is infringing? The attorney general. Do you still hold faith that the attorney general is interested in preserving rights or preserving money? Money that could be made. Money that could be lost. At what cost with this bill though?
I respect everybody's opinion and open myself to new viewpoints. As an american, I'm interested in the bottom line, as most people are. How does this affect me? Being in business yourself RR, understandably you would not want your life's work copied and given away free or re-sold with no fair payment to you.
More, more, more. I want more. thats the way we live. We consume. Its no wonder we're the most overweight country. Where's the money I could have made? Where's the money that is projected I lost?
I wholeheartedly believe more should be done to protect the little guy. To protect the few creative visioneers we have left in this country. 
I do hope RR, that your faith in publication is renewed through a more effective legislation.
-------------------- Respectfully, Sparkx All information is obtained for mycological study in identifying and characterizing edible mushrooms. All suggestions are offered with a grain of salt as the gathering of this information is for microscopy and very well IS ONLY regurgitated information found across the internet, books and other media. It's okay you can ignore me because I'm female, society raised you to be sexist. I don't blame you, if the world told me I was superior I'd believe them too.
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The act is a noble, giving RR and others with intellectual rights their assurance of assets; but in practice it infringes upon online freedoms and gives THE MAN and BIG BUSINESS way too much power. I don't see a compromise really, which sucks for some artists and is negligible to those who've adapted to an age where digital publishing fails to promise freedom from piracy.
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Re: What gives? [Re: Phallus]
#15684385 - 01/18/12 04:27 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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the internet should remain how it is as far as the availabilty of information reguardless of what it is. I am not going to lie and say I understand everything about it. but government needs to stay off the internet, or wonderful sites like this may become obsolete. freedom of information, but also fredom to protect intellectual rights is a must, atleast in America..
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dlaz said: The whole world at my fingertips; well up until now if this bullshit passes. Thanx for the heads up.
Nonsense.
SOPA is to prevent online thieves from stealing people's hard work. I strongly disagree with those protesting this bill. The only ones who hate it are those who think it's their right to steal the work of others. If you want software, movies, or my DVD for example, simply buy it. Offshore torrent and other illegal download sites which steal copyrighted work and then make millions of dollars by illegally distributing it can be shut down.
All this does is level the playing field back to the way things were in the pre-digital age. Back then, you couldn't check out a book from the library, set up a printing press and make millions of copies to sell, or you'd go to jail. That however is just what is happening now, and there's no stopping it without this law or a similar one.
I refuse to release another DVD or even my nearly-completed book on commercial cultivation until things change. Why should I dedicate years of my life to making a product just so it can be illegally downloaded and I don't get paid for my work? RR
I understand your position, but you have to realize the bigger picture here. This will set a dangerous precedent! On it's face that's what it seems to be about... protecting copyrights etc etc, but we all know that once lawmakers get a foothold, that's it the flood gates are open. You give them an inch they WILL want and take the mile! The patriot act is a perfect example of this. They start w/ this justification then it's only a matter of time before they start adding and adding to it based on new "justifications." This has been proven/shown/done time and time again! The ramifications of giving government this type of power/control over our last free frontier is frightening... do you want us to become like China, N Korea, or any other communist nation that restricts their citizens access to the internet b/c that is EXACTLY what will happen, maybe not tomorrow but eventually, over time.
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO] 1
#15684593 - 01/18/12 05:10 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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RR uses AOL dial-up internet compact discs to connect to the interwebs. Of course he's not going to mind if these bills pass. It's not like it will effect him negatively.
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Re: What gives? [Re: prismism] 1
#15684713 - 01/18/12 05:43 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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...on another note RR, sites like these will be gone/banned/censored and being that they are where most of your sales originate from (weather from banner ads or word of mouth)... well you get the idea. So people might not be able to pirate your stuff anymore (which really won't be the case, it just won't be as easy), BUT you're BIGGEST source of advertisement will be gone! So in fact I think you will actually LOSE money in the end. To get the same exposure your product gets here on sites like this, you would have to spend way more $$$ on mainstream advertisements that probably won't reach your target demographic in the concentrations it does here and places like it. And if you don't think that SOPA/PIPA won't be used in the future to shut places like this down, you're mistaken. Remember RR, people where pirating way BEFORE the internet. Again, I totally understand your position but this isn't the answer. By fixing one of your issues, you'll be shooting yourself in the other foot simultaneously!
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO]
#15686851 - 01/19/12 05:30 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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And if it does pass sites like this will be gone. When some one post pics of there cubes and says what's wrong?? And we help that's illegal am I not right?
Knowingly giving cultivation info to someone that's growing shrooms is illegal in I think all states
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I refuse to release another DVD or even my nearly-completed book on commercial cultivation until things change.
Sorry Roger, but I don't think things will ever change in the way you are hoping for. Motivated people will always find a way to circumvent what ever measures are put in place.
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dlaz said: The whole world at my fingertips; well up until now if this bullshit passes. Thanx for the heads up.
Nonsense.
SOPA is to prevent online thieves from stealing people's hard work. I strongly disagree with those protesting this bill. The only ones who hate it are those who think it's their right to steal the work of others. If you want software, movies, or my DVD for example, simply buy it. Offshore torrent and other illegal download sites which steal copyrighted work and then make millions of dollars by illegally distributing it can be shut down.
All this does is level the playing field back to the way things were in the pre-digital age. Back then, you couldn't check out a book from the library, set up a printing press and make millions of copies to sell, or you'd go to jail. That however is just what is happening now, and there's no stopping it without this law or a similar one.
I refuse to release another DVD or even my nearly-completed book on commercial cultivation until things change. Why should I dedicate years of my life to making a product just so it can be illegally downloaded and I don't get paid for my work? RR
i undrstand totally, but i bought your dvd. i had previosly downloaded them for free off of your website. if it wasn't for the free downloads, i might never have bought it. the way i see it is the more of your dvd's that are out there (downloaded or bought) leads to more people buying your stuff. because it gets your product to more people, like advertising.. It's like some small time band that is really good but can't get reconized. they put there shit out there for free, 100,000 free downloads. those people play it for 10 of there friends. well, now you've got a million potential buyers all because you gave some shit away.
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dlaz said: The whole world at my fingertips; well up until now if this bullshit passes. Thanx for the heads up.
Nonsense.
SOPA is to prevent online thieves from stealing people's hard work. I strongly disagree with those protesting this bill. The only ones who hate it are those who think it's their right to steal the work of others. If you want software, movies, or my DVD for example, simply buy it. Offshore torrent and other illegal download sites which steal copyrighted work and then make millions of dollars by illegally distributing it can be shut down.
All this does is level the playing field back to the way things were in the pre-digital age. Back then, you couldn't check out a book from the library, set up a printing press and make millions of copies to sell, or you'd go to jail. That however is just what is happening now, and there's no stopping it without this law or a similar one.
I refuse to release another DVD or even my nearly-completed book on commercial cultivation until things change. Why should I dedicate years of my life to making a product just so it can be illegally downloaded and I don't get paid for my work? RR
So you've never pirated a thing in your life. uhuh. Sure.
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keeno
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yeah I have to agree with Uncle Bobo and OoBYCoO here.
*the internet exists and it won't go away
*the way media proliferates has now changed forever
*you can't make things go back to the way they were, remember the Luddites didn't win. A few looms were smashed but did it stop the industrial revolution? no.
Now I know a lot about copyright and online distribution. I worked for a company trying to create a workable model for MP3 sales in 1994. I worked at Atom Films who were working on a model to generate revenue for short films online. And I worked at the BBC in their music copyright department.
So, companies and large societies who have a vested interest in the Status Quo (e.g. their nice yachts, villas in the Bahamas, Ferrari's etc.) hate change, hate threats to their kingdoms and unfortunately are generally old and have a hard time understanding the new. The Internet is just that. the destroyer of the Status Quo.
the old mentality of building factories and churning out goods to make massive profits is changing. And whilst I completely understand an artists rights need to be protected, and they need to be paid for their 'art' (so they can continue to make more), it's not going to happen in the 'old way' (musicians now make a larger share of their money from lives shows as opposed to overpriced CD sales for example)
this legislation seems to use that noble cause to bring in draconian laws which go way beyond protecting a persons copyright, and in fact can hinder them (as bobo has rightly said)
So I understand your desire not to be ripped off RR, 100%. but SOPA isn't out there to protect you, it's out there to protect Warners, or MGM. You as a 'niche' artist who needs to find their 'tribe' must have made countless sales via the free downloads. you'll do well via kindle and online streaming sites.
I would recommend that you read "Tribes" - by Seth Godin - In fact, I will buy you a copy if you so wish RR - as you would be the perfect person to benefit from it. A leader who can teach and spread the good word, and be rewarded for it
oops, got a bit of topic there...
but basically SOPA in my opinion is Big Business using strong arm tactics instead of thinking intelligently about a whole new era of human media.
We must embrace the new and learn to make it work even better than the old! (I totally will buy you that book if you have a glimmer of interest in reading it RR)
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Re: What gives? [Re: keeno]
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Re: What gives? [Re: Chez man]
#15687046 - 01/19/12 07:43 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Under the law, the 'government' does not order foreign sites blocked. A judge in a court of law does, after receiving evidence they are hosting copyrighted material illegally.
This is not about big brother, big government or anything else. It's to stop websites in China from pirating my stuff. It's also not about big business, even though they're also supporting it for the same reasons. People have a right to get paid for the work they do, period. Those of you with jobs expect a paycheck on Friday. If someone hacked into your bank and stole your money, you'd expect the 'government' to get it back for you and arrest the thieves.
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i undrstand totally, but i bought your dvd. i had previosly downloaded them for free off of your website. if it wasn't for the free downloads, i might never have bought it.
Those are sample clips. I put them there and everyone is welcome to download them. That's why they're there.
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And if it does pass sites like this will be gone.
Nonsense. If a site like this gets notice there's copyrighted material posted, they have ample time to take it down. If they refuse, THEN they get taken to court where they still have an opportunity to tell their side.
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RR uses AOL dial-up internet compact discs to connect to the interwebs. Of course he's not going to mind if these bills pass. It's not like it will effect him negatively.
Gosh, now you're just making shit up. I get internet via satellite dish because of my remote location. Dial up is not even available here because it's 45 miles to the nearest hardwire phone switch. Satellite is not a whole lot faster than dialup in speed, but I'd cut off my nuts before sending money to AOL. If you think the only reason I don't pirate other people's work is because I have slow internet, you seriously misjudge my moral character. RR
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There's already a considerable amount of government interference with the internet, in fact, this bill may be just to justify actions they've been taking for years now.
Regardless if it passes, it won't stop the pirates, it'll make them more sophisticated.
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keeno
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Re: What gives? [Re: Jonow]
#15687430 - 01/19/12 09:39 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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here's a piece by Seth Godin: (hope you don't mind me shoe-horning it in)
Why not ban digital cameras?
Kodak declared bankruptcy this week. Legislation to ban digital cameras could have saved this company, a “jobs creator,” pillar of the community and long-time wonderful brand. One wonders why they didn’t make the effort? Would you have lobbied for that bill?
A friend tells a story about Kodak. Apparently, they had 59 buildings on the site that made film. As the film business started to shrink, the obvious thing for Kodak to do was to shrink as well, to reduce overhead, to become more nimble. The CEO said, “look out at those buildings and answer this question for me: How many steps are involved in making film?”
The answer, of course, was 59. Slowly shrinking wasn’t an option. The overhang was too large, it was going to take a leap, not a gradual series of steps. And that’s why the future is uncomfortable for most successful industrialists, including those in the media business.
It’s interesting to note that the only people who are in favor of SOPA and PIPA are people who are paid to be in favor of it. And creators (authors like me and Clay Shirky and Scott Adams) aren’t. While the folks at the “Copyright Alliance” pretend to be looking out for the interests of independent filmmakers and authors, the fact is that the only paying members of their lobbying group seem to be big corporations, corporations that aren’t worried about creators, they’re worried about profits. Given a choice between a great film and a profitable one, they’d pick the profitable one every time. Given the choice between paying net profits to creators and adjusting the accounting…
Anyway, back to the future:
The leap to a new structure is painful for successful industries precisely because they’re successful. In book publishing, the carefully constructed system of agents, advances, copyeditors, printers, scarcity, distributors, sales calls, bestseller lists, returns and lunches is threatened by the new regime of the long tail, zero marginal cost and ebook readers with a central choke point. The problem with getting from one place to another is that you need to shut down building 59, and it’s hard to do that while the old model is still working, at least a little bit.
Just about all the people who lost their jobs in Rochester meant well and worked hard and did their jobs well. They need to blame the senior management of Kodak, the ones who were afraid of the future and hoped it would go away. There are more pictures being taken more often by more people than ever before–Kodak leadership couldn’t deal with their overhang and was so in love with their success that they insisted the world change in their favor, as opposed to embracing the future that was sure to arrive.
Please understand that the destruction of the music business had no impact at all on the amount of music available, and little that I can see on the quality of that music either. Musicians just want to make music, thanks very much, and they’ll find a way to make a living gigging in order to do so. The destruction of the film business in Rochester is going to have very little impact on people’s ability to take photos. The destruction of the New York publishing establishment will make me sad, and they/we should hustle, but it’s not going to have much impact on the number of books that are written.
Before we rush to the most draconian solution we can think of to save the status quo, I think it’s worth considering what the function of the threatened industry is, and whether we can achieve that function more directly now that the future is arriving.
Check out this short TED video from Clay Shirky. Especially the first minute, the middle 90 seconds and the last one as well.
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO]
#15687466 - 01/19/12 09:48 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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OoBYCoO said:Remember RR, people where pirating way BEFORE the internet.
I remember recording radio onto cassette tapes haha oh how the times have changed.
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haha yeah the top 40 mixtape 
do you remember this? 
if you want a brief history of the Media industries attempt to clamp down on people sharing, and where it could be headed, check this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html
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OoBYCoO said:Remember RR, people where pirating way BEFORE the internet.
I remember recording radio onto cassette tapes haha oh how the times have changed.
Don't Copy that Floppy!
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OoBYCoO said:Remember RR, people where pirating way BEFORE the internet.
I remember recording radio onto cassette tapes haha oh how the times have changed.
Remember the uproar when VCR's came out?!?!? The media giants tried squashing that too!
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO]
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OoBYCoO said:
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Shroom_Goon said:
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OoBYCoO said:Remember RR, people where pirating way BEFORE the internet.
I remember recording radio onto cassette tapes haha oh how the times have changed.
Remember the uproar when VCR's came out?!?!? The media giants tried squashing that too!
Lol, Remember this one:
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Jack Valenti said: I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
He actually said that to congress!!!!!
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Does this bill take into consideration those who are subjects of Kleptomania?
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uncle bobo



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move this shit to the pub!!! time to grow some mushrooms.
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OoBYCoO
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move this shit to the pub!!! time to grow some mushrooms.
Probably a good idea.
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO]
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Anyone watching the pube debate? They're debating SOPA right now....
....AND EVERYONE OF THEM GAVE IT THE RIGHT ANSWER! 
...FOR THE RIGHT REASONS!
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Re: What gives? [Re: OoBYCoO]
#15691488 - 01/20/12 04:40 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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the pube debate?

why do we not have that in the UK?
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TPB press release.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.
Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.
So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it's all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules.
The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It's all based on the fact that we're competition. We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are.
And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.
The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe - but we've stayed out of the USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this: The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence. They want to make the internet inte a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the rest of us obedient consumers. The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you'll learn that noone wants to be fed with trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that you will stop them, before we all drown.
SOPA can't do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we'll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really. To fix the "problem of piracy" one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they're creating "culture" but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat.
In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world. One of the most powerful ones is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he's complainting that Google is the biggest source of piracy in the world - because he's jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you'd get a more honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.
Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.
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