 LinklistPremium join:2002-03-03 Longport, NJ kudos:5 4 edits | The Summary of what the bill says »www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xp···=summary
Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General (AG) to commence an action for injunctive relief against a domain name used by an Internet site that is "dedicated to infringing activities," even where such a domain name is not located in the United States. Defines an Internet site that "dedicated to infringing activities" as a site that is: (1) subject to civil forfeiture; (2) designed primarily to offer goods or services in violation of federal copyright law; or (3) selling counterfeit goods. Requires the AG to maintain a public listing of domain names that the Department of Justice (DOJ) determines are dedicated to infringing activities but for which the AG has not filed an action. Allows parties to petition the AG to remove such a domain name from the list and obtain judicial review of the final determination in a civil action. The full bill can be read here: »www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex···111-3804
And what is copyright infringement?: »www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/us···00-.html
Since the vote was unanimous, all 19 members of the committee listed here voted for it: »www.govtrack.us/congress/committ···?id=SSJU
Groups supporting bill: Property Rights Alliance Motion Picture Association of America Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse US Chamber of Commerce Screen Actors Guild Viacom International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States
Groups opposing legislation: Center for Democracy & Technology Electronic Frontier Foundation Distributed Computing Industry Association
Where the lobbying money came from to the US Senators, shows both for & against: For bill: $5,348,392 Against bill: $167,750 »maplight.org/us-congress/bill/11···ibutions |
|
 | I am an artist and I do not support censorship.This bill is bullshit and I intend to do something about it.
1.boycott mafiaa 2.buy only used products 3.never buy theater tickets 4.never support any artists or labels involved with mafiaa 5.already wrote to my senators 6.not voting democrat or republican again
maybe bills like these will get us all moving in the right direction.away from a 2 party bs system many of us hate |
|
 LinklistPremium join:2002-03-03 Longport, NJ kudos:5 | said by gorehound:I am an artist and I do not support censorship. Seems some of your fellow artists don't agree:
Supporters of bill:
Screen Actors Guild
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States |
|
 | His statement was without question not all inclusive to every artist and thus did not need your 2 cents. |
|
 LinklistPremium join:2002-03-03 Longport, NJ kudos:5 2 edits | reply to Linklist
A more extensive list of this bill's supporters: » www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=528101-800-PetMeds Activision Acushnet Golf Association of American Publishers Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) Chanel Church Music Publishers' Association Copyright Alliance Disney EMI Entertainment Software Association Fashion Business Inc. Fortune Brands Guru Denim, Inc. Imaging Supplies Coalition Johnson and Johnson LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Major League Baseball Merck Motion Picture Association of America NagraStar Nagravision National Music Publisher's Association NBC Universal Nervous Tattoo Inc., dba Ed Hardy Newscorp Nike Oakley OpSec Security Premier League Recording Industry Association of America Sony Music Entertainment Sports Rights Owners Coalition STOP Streaming Group Tiffany and Co. Time Warner True Religion Apparel, Inc. Ultimate Fighting Championship Underwriters Laboratory Universal Music Group U.S. Chamber of Commerce Viacom Warner Music Group Xerox |
|
 PDXPLT join:2003-12-04 Banks, OR 1 edit | reply to Linklist
Karl distorts the facts again quote: The bill would create a website blacklist and give the (entertainment industry lawyer stocked) Department of Justice the ability to censor or shut down certain websites deemed "dedicated to infringing activities" without Judicial review.
That's not true, if the contents of the bill are accurately described above: quote: Amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General (AG) to commence an action for injunctive relief ...
'Injunctive relief' must be granted by a court. So much for the 'no judicial review' falsehood.
It's no surprise to me that Franken would support this. He used to be an entertainer. He got paid for the copyrightable content he would create.
I had an entertainment industry insider recently sum up the industry to me in a few short sentences: first you have a bunch of creative types, that create stuff in order to be paid for doing so. That's one sde of the industry. They then hire the other side: an army of barracuda lawyers whose job is to negotiate deals, wring out every possible penny of revenue that can be obtained for that creative content, and to protect the value of said content as much as possible. Yea they have front groups like the RIAA/MPAA that take the public heat for being the 'evil empire', but make no mistake the objective for all involved is to make as much money from as many sources as possible. How else to pay for all that bling.
Yea it doesn't sit well with the internet population that thinks this should all be free, but what else is new.
EDIT: WIRED has a much more accurate and better-written article: »www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/1···liceman/ |
|
 BF69Premium join:2004-07-28 Camden, TN | reply to Linklist
Re: The Summary of what the bill says said by Linklist:A more extensive list of this bill's supporters: » www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=528101-800-PetMeds Activision Acushnet Golf Association of American Publishers Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) Chanel Church Music Publishers' Association Copyright Alliance Disney EMI Entertainment Software Association Fashion Business Inc. Fortune Brands Guru Denim, Inc. Imaging Supplies Coalition Johnson and Johnson LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Major League Baseball Merck Motion Picture Association of America NagraStar Nagravision National Music Publisher's Association NBC Universal Nervous Tattoo Inc., dba Ed Hardy Newscorp Nike Oakley OpSec Security Premier League Recording Industry Association of America Sony Music Entertainment Sports Rights Owners Coalition STOP Streaming Group Tiffany and Co. Time Warner True Religion Apparel, Inc. Ultimate Fighting Championship Underwriters Laboratory Universal Music Group U.S. Chamber of Commerce Viacom Warner Music Group Xerox What's ironic is that if the governemnt tried to ban certain music, video games, movies or books many of this group would oppose such laws on freedom of speech. |
|
 DesdinovaPremium join:2003-01-26 Gaithersburg, MD | reply to Linklist "1-800-PetMeds Activision Acushnet Golf Association of American Publishers Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) Chanel..."
And eugenics was supported by the American Medical association, Theodore Roosevelt, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council. The Supreme Court upheld the rights of states to involuntarily sterilize "undesirables" and by 1963, over 60,000 people had been sterilized, many for no other reason than homosexuality, feeble-mindedness or just social undesireablity.
"Eugenic breeders believed American society was not ready to implement an organized lethal solution. But many mental institutions and doctors practiced improvised medical lethality and passive euthanasia on their own. One institution in Lincoln, Illinois fed its incoming patients milk from tubercular cows believing a eugenically strong individual would be immune. Thirty to forty percent annual death rates resulted at Lincoln. Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time. Others doctors at mental institutions engaged in lethal neglect.
Nonetheless, with eugenicide marginalized, the main solution for eugenicists was the rapid expansion of forced segregation and sterilization, as well as more marriage restrictions. California led the nation, performing nearly all sterilization procedures with little or no due process. In its first twenty-five years of eugenic legislation, California sterilized 9,782 individuals, mostly women. Many were classified as "bad girls," diagnosed as "passionate," "oversexed" or "sexually wayward." At Sonoma, some women were sterilized because of what was deemed an abnormally large clitoris or labia."
--quoted from »hnn.us/articles/1796.html
So just because a group of people attached to a cause support and like that cause, doesn't exclude the cause from being horrifically wrong and shortsighted. |
|
 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium join:2000-01-17 Tulsa, OK | reply to Linklist When money is involved ethics and principles go right out the window. I find it ironic that many of Hollywood support such a measure out of greed. Seems it really is true, those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
|
|
 KearnstdElf WizardPremium join:2002-01-22 Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Linklist SAG supporting a bill like this, now there is a shocker. their premier members just could not live with only one bentley this year. -- [65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports |
|
 KylemaulLovin' My FirefoxPremium join:2001-03-30 North Port, FL Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| reply to BF69 said by BF69:What's ironic is that if the government tried to ban certain music, video games, movies or books many of this group would oppose such laws on freedom of speech. Hmmm. A) This is the government trying to ban something. B) 'many of this group' part is negated by their participation. As far as I'm concerned, they just turned in their own (and those they represent's) 'freedom of speech' cards. |
|