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With every Democrat in the pocket of the entertainment industry, its easy to see who to blame. I hope Obama gets his ass destroyed in their upcoming election.
The Orchard Music is a major music distribution company, claiming to represent over 3 million songs in its catalog. It has developed technology that can identify songs uploaded to websites such as YouTube and Facebook. While it claims it will not sue uploaders, it does point people to a post on its blog about YouTube copyright guidelines:
http://www.dailyrindblog.com/?p=9808
YouTube seems not to be aggressively enforcing these guidelines at the present time, but they will probably be forced to do so if “anti-piracy” legislation passes the US Congress in the next few weeks.
The threat is that music becomes the province of “big business” and music celebrities only — and that small-time musicians will get frozen out of online music promotion.
Very informative text, it is really interesting to analyze the SOPA and PIPA from this aspect. Im this context, these acts have some rational sides, too, although I find them a way to censor the internet. And that’s not what I want.
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I hope Obama realized SOPA will kill small websites and will make the rich – richer and the poor – poorer! I don’t agree with SOPA!
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I see the SOPA as a law with good intentions, however, the mechanism it employs once it gets enacted is too much. I hope they can come up with a better alternative.
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Don’t worry guys, hearing about SOPA was suspended. I hope it will be temporary trashed by the officials.
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If this eventually passes, big government is going to go after all the 9 and 10 year old girls who post their rendition of Lady Ga Ga songs on youtube… I hope this doesn’t pass!
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The same situation is going to be in Europe…The new legislation is called ACTA, and there are significant protests in the bigger cities nowadays…I’ve heard that in Hungary, for example, the governor has signed the legislation without any communication to the people. I think that’s insane.
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I thought the issue about SOPA and PIPA has already take in action, This is alarming to the blogging society…
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Wel, SOPA seems to be dead, at for a while. BUT the threat still exists, as some other countries are going down the SOPA route. And there was a report last week that in the US a website lost its domain without notice by US government actions. The website owner tried to get answers about what the problem was. No one would talk with him. Finally, after a few days, the domain name was active again, and once again with no explanation. The moral is: The US government can do most anything it wants to do under the current climate, turning to all kinds of obscure laws to justify its actions.
I understand the concern to try and crack down on internet piracy, but turning Google and YouTube into the “internet police” is kind of blackmail isn’t it? I don’t see this happening despite the large backing from big video and entertainment firms.