SOPA is dead!

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Sauce http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”

“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith (R-Texas) said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”
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Common sense prevails.
 
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Thanks to the Blackout and OWS movement :o

Now to kill PIPA
 
PIPA has also been withdrawn, see my thread.

BUT, neither bill is actually dead. They will be back in an amended form.

This aint over until the Fat Lady has Duck Tape stuck over her mouth and is served with a Cease and Desist Letter and has her website taken offline.
 
Yeah, don't let these bastards lull everyone into a false sense of security.

How many tens of millions were thrown at this by the recording/media giants? They are most certainly not going to let this go easily.
 
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Well my only question is this.When the bill is re-evaluated and if passed, do you really think the likes of Anonymous and the millions of other hacktivists, will just lie down? The cyber war will be 2012 times worse than what occurred yesterday!

But for now : AWESOME! The internet has united and won this small battle for now. The power of social media today truly is inspiring actually. I really enjoyed twitter these last 2 days, it gets extremely boring only seeing celeb fodder do the rounds :D
 
"It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products."
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As if "piracy" is a foreign concept to the US....
 
adrianx said:
As if "piracy" is a foreign concept to the US....
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I think its more a problem with countries like Belgium or Finland where its legal to download thanks to CD/DVD and internet levies.

Joke is USA once had a levy system, dont know why they just didn't expand it to internet usage. It would have made all this piracy war null and void if you ask me.

United States
Audio home recording in general

17 U.S.C. § 1008, as legislated by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, says that non-commercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings is not copyright infringement. Non-commercial includes such things as resale not in the course of business, perhaps of normal use working copies which are no longer wanted. It is unlikely to include resale of copies in bulk; Napster tried to use the Section 1008 defense but was rejected because it was a business.

From House Report No. 102-873(I), September 17, 1992: "In the case of home taping, the [Section 1008] exemption protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings" .

From House Report No. 102-780(I), August 4, 1992: "In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use".

The United States music industry[citation needed] administers the Audio Home Recording Act and foreign hometaping royalties for artists on US sound recordings as well as US record labels. These royalties are administered by The Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies for featured artists and copyright owners, ASCAP/BMI/SESAC for writers, Harry Fox Agency for publishers, and The AFM/AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distributoin Fund (Joint venture of AFM and AFTRA ) for non-featured artists. All societies also collect foreign remuneration for their respective funds.

Blank music CDs and recorders

17 U.S.C. § 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 U.S.C. § 1003 provides for a royalty of 2% of the initial transfer price for devices and 3% for media.[12] The royalty rate in 17 U.S.C. § 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs, even though they can be (and often are) used to record or "burn" music from the computer to CD. The royalty also applies to stand-alone CD recorders, but not to CD burners used with computers. Most recently, portable satellite radio recording devices contribute to this royalty fund. [13].

Thanks to a precedent established in a 1998 lawsuit involving the Rio PMP300 player, most MP3 players are deemed "computer peripherals" and are not subject to a royalty of this type in the U.S.
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Source: Wikipedia
 
Ha! I meant those who shamelessly download movies, tv series, games and musics without paying a cent.
 
Garyvdh said:
Troll.
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I don't see why he/she is being a troll. Some people believe piracy is wrong gary and in all honesty i cannot blame them. I have no issues with it but calling someone a troll because they think it is wrong is just a bit silly.
 
Kitty09 said:
Ha! I meant those who shamelessly download movies, tv series, games and musics without paying a cent.
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SOPA would have done sweet ****all to stop piracy, but would have forever changed the landscape of the internet, in a very, very bad way.

The sooner these idiots realize that piracy cannot be stopped, the better for us all.

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Not that I condone piracy (although personally, I don't give a large toss), but the reality is that there is no practical way to actually stop it, so they need to rethink their methods of distribution, join the stream, rather than waging an unwinnable war.
 
copacetic said:
Not that I condone piracy (although personally, I don't give a large toss), but the reality is that there is no practical way to actually stop it, so they need to rethink their methods of distribution, join the stream, rather than waging an unwinnable war.
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Something like what Hollywood did when they became outlaws themselves to escape the licenses fees Edison placed on the film industry?

Yep friends Hollywood would not have been what they are today if they followed the law.

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Edison fims is dead today as they did not adapt and changed and I suspect the same will happen to Hollywood or more so the people that spread the media if they dont listen to the people.

Bring the world, media without the artificial boundaries and the limitations that is imposed onto it today and I can assure you loads of piracy will decrease. Also make it affordable and lastly add small affordable levy/royalty system and you will save millions of your bribe money to try and make laws that is not needed.
 
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copacetic said:
SOPA would have done sweet ****all to stop piracy, but would have forever changed the landscape of the internet, in a very, very bad way.

The sooner these idiots realize that piracy cannot be stopped, the better for us all.

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Not that I condone piracy (although personally, I don't give a large toss), but the reality is that there is no practical way to actually stop it, so they need to rethink their methods of distribution, join the stream, rather than waging an unwinnable war.
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If netflix and the like were available anywhere in the world, who would want to pirate? Too much effort.
 
killadoob said:
I don't see why he/she is being a troll. Some people believe piracy is wrong gary and in all honesty i cannot blame them. I have no issues with it but calling someone a troll because they think it is wrong is just a bit silly.
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Um, the Troll comment is because...

1) SOPA and PIPA are not actually dead.
2) They have nothing to do with controlling piracy.
 
Garyvdh said:
Um, the Troll comment is because...

2) They have nothing to do with controlling piracy.
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ehm... Stop Online Piracy Act. Nope, Nothing at all remotely to do with piracy.

anycase

SOPA would NOT have changed much. You guys kick up such a fuss, because you have no idea what authorities are already capable of doing without SOPA and PIPA.
 
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