Comments on: Websites go dark to protest SOPA/PIPA

By: After SOPA protest day

After SOPA protest day — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:55:33 +0000

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By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:42:55 +0000

@Ron Miller–
It is a case of a concentrated special interest pushing hard against a diffuse public interest where it hasn’t seemed worth the time of most of the public to push back. The Internet providers have made the diffuse public more aware of their interest and more able to combine. I hope a newly aroused public will push back enough to roll back earlier usurpations, notably the extension of copyright term to an unconstitutional life PLUS seventy years.

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:09:40 +0000

Conservative, liberal, everyone seems to be against this. I don’t understand the details but either the bill is completely inane or – at least on some level – it is being misrepresented on-line.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:04:51 +0000

In today’s paper is another illustration, like the 2003 Eldred v. Ashcroft (Lessig) decision before it, that the US copyright-extension process has become utterly dysfunctional and corrupt. The public’s price for SOPA-like tightening of (more recent) copyright enforcement must include reversal of this betrayal of the public interest to rent-seeking parasites.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204555904577168752017626174.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_1#articleTabs%3Darticle

MEDIA & MARKETING
JANUARY 19, 2012, Thursday.
Foreign Copyrights Upheld
Court Backs Reciprocal International Protection for Previously Public Material.

By: Rliyen

Rliyen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:53:47 +0000

Vitter and Scalise also jumped ship late yesterday. Now we have to be on the lookout of this thing being shunted into a bigger bill when no one is looking or caring.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:10:38 +0000

I’ll give Rubio partial credit for backing off from a mistake, whatever his motive. Unlike, say, Waxman and his CPSIA.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:19:47 +0000

I refuse to applaud Rubio for removing his support from something he co-sponsored.

He only pulled his support because said support isn’t politically popular, and that’s bs.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:07:15 +0000

I sent Rubio and my congressman letters a couple of weeks ago. Good to see that they read their mail, even if slowly.

By: Smart Dude

Smart Dude — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:56:12 +0000

Bravo Rubio!

The phone and e-mail lines are burning up. Reports are that Washington is under a tsunami of anti-censorship outrage.