nooby wrote:Thanks for starting the thread.
A lot of organizations and individual persons
here in Europe is very upset about it and so am I.
The companies behind the Lobby that proposed it
gets too much power in their hand.
Youtube as we know it today will most likely have to change
a lot.
and even our forum here has to be very vigilant and stop
any link to music or other copyrighted things.
So a villain that want to destroy for us can bomb us
with such links and there are too few moderators to keep up
so it is bad bad bad.
Now, there's an interesting use of words, and there's a really disturbing case from almost a decade ago, raisethefist.org.
And it involved a copyrighted picture published first by the U.S. Army and later by Time magazine, on how to make a pipe bomb.
It was the very first case prosecuted under the USA PATRIOT ACT which is an acronym for a mouthful of Police State non-patriotism. Sherman Austin, the maintainer of the site, was imprisoned for a year then placed on federal parole with no internet access.
The guy who actually posted the really crude instructions, poorly written enough that you'd lose fingers if naught more by making the stupid thing, and unlike young Mr Austin wasn't a Minor... got off scot-free.
To misquote Mr Rogers (public television show) "Can you say 'agent provocateur', 'poseur' and 'singing like a canary'? I knew you could!)
There is an ongoing case in Colorado Springs where a fellow just down the street from me was making M80 super-firecrackers and is charged on several felony counts, he got the instructions off the internet.
The local really fascist news media, who have the improbable name of Freedom Communications Inc, and are enjoying a tax-break subsidy of unbelievable proportions because they're in bankruptcy for the past several years and STILL publishing and broadcasting,
Their three main subsidiaries made a big hoo-haw about this, KOA radio, KOAA tv and the Gazette, because of the many similarities between an M80 and pipe bombs.
They also flagged for removal every YouTube video involving fireworks.
These are also among those who advocate allowing the carry of firearms in schools.
Combining the laws, PIPA, SOPA and the "patriot" act, that's a freakin' huge amount of power to put in the hands of non-elected, non-deputized, officially non-Government corporations.
They hide their contempt for the U.S. constitution and international laws also ratified by Congress like the Hague and Geneva conventions and the U.N. Charter, under the false flag of "nationalism".
Ratified under the constitution means in Article 4 that the Constitution is the law of the land and to be interpreted as such in any court in U.S. Territories and ships at sea.
And under Article 6 any treaties ratified by the Congress have the full force of law, in the U.S., as the Constitution itself.
They kind of swept that out the door with the Bush Doctrine and the "patriot" act.
Nationalism which doesn't recognize the national sovereignty of every other nation, especially the ones with whom your own nation officially disagrees, "rogue states" and "regime change" for instance, that's not nationalism and has an uglier name... "Imperialism".
It's an extreme example, maybe, but within the scope of SOPA and PIPA, for somebody in Outer Mongolia getting a copy of Windows 3.1 off craigslist could also get a visit from the FBI. Probably wouldn't happen to that extent, but the professional lawyers who wrote the bills know damned well that's how much power they're giving.