Help Mozilla stop Internet Censorship Legislation
Discuss. I must admit that the banner on my Firefox homepage was the first I'd heard of this.
Discuss. I must admit that the banner on my Firefox homepage was the first I'd heard of this.
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- Thread starter Pesqueeb
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Keep your hands off my porn!
this is some ol' buuuulllshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit charles.
Seriously though. I'm not really against what they're trying to accomplish, but they're going about it completely the wrong way.
Seriously though. I'm not really against what they're trying to accomplish, but they're going about it completely the wrong way.
What exactly are they trying to accomplish that the RIAA hasn't already proven doesn't work?
My take on it is that after going after This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations and other sites that were linking to pirated material (mostly live broadcasts of sporting events), they're going to try to block sites like Live Score / LiveTV now. They can't go after them like they did channelsurfing since they're based outside of the US, but they're going to try to block access and filter Google results. I just heard about it today from a teaser on WSJ.com.
edit: I like the auto-correct on the link...
edit: I like the auto-correct on the link...
they're putting the blame in the wrong place. what theyre trying to do is blame the liquor store clerk who sold the bottle of vodka to the guy who drove drunk for the death of the people the drunk driver hit. or blaming the cabella's clerk who sold the rifle to the guy who went on the shooting spree for the death's of the victims.
What is the penalty for *watching* pirated content? I think that the main problem is that you're not allowed to rebroadcast anything (under US law), and if the people doing the rebroadcasting are located outside of the US are they really able to go after the people streaming/watching the content?
Apparently they can't go after you for illegally streaming something. Yet.
Apparently they can't go after you for illegally streaming something. Yet.
these are the kinds of issues they're not addressing. they talk about pirates like some sort of internet boogeyman. more often than not piracy is the end result of no lack of reasonable access to the content that people want.
Although apparently the government hates The Pirate Bay as well... But that should be covered in the "go after the people bittorrenting the copyrighted material" since it's definitely illegal.
I'm wondering if the non-illegality of streaming is how Grooveshark gets by? I've heard that music companies are pissed, but that they can't take legal action?
this is largely being driven by the recording and movie associations, i think deep down they really *don't* care about piracy, they're just looking for another quick easy paycheck. If they really did care about their content getting stolen, they'd be doing their due dilligence to track down the people who are ACTUALLY responsible for it.
I agree, but it's only a matter of time before broadcast/media companies get behind the lawsuits. With so many people cutting the cable cord, it's only a matter of time before people really turn to digital media. Just look at how many people are connected via a Top Gear torrent, or a Weeds torrent, or... There's also a website devoted to cycling that often posts links to cycling torrents, especially during the TdF.
(not that I would ever connect to such a swarm other than for research purposes, of course)
these are just last ditch efforts to prop up dying business models. within the next year or so we're going to begin seeing the first content created exclusively for streaming services like netflix and hulu. music artists are already cutting out the middle man and publishing directly to itunes, and as of today, google music is now in the digital music distribution business as well. these industries know their days are numbered unless they adapt, and are scrambling to cash in wherever they can as quick as they can (re: companies that were rubber stamping take down notices based on automated "infringement" searches that weren't subject to actual human review)
