A Possible New Law To Worry About?
ETA: I went ahead and made this a public post. Please, pass around the URL. If this is something we need to be worried about, I want people to know.
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So. I sent letters to my Senators and Congressmen about SOPA/PIPA, like I was told to during the whole trying to get rid of it thing. I just got this e-mail from Congressman Darrell Issa:
Dear Ms. Cook:
Thank you for contacting me to state your opposition to the legislation known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
I share your concern and am opposed to both SOPA and PIPA. In fact, I led the effort in the House to oppose both pieces of legislation because of provisions which would damage Domain Name Service (DNS) Security (Sec), stifle online innovation, lead to search-engine takedowns, and create a new private right of action to empower trial attorneys. Additionally I was highly concerned that SOPA and PIPA would give the Attorney General and the Department of Justice the power to potentially censor domestic, non-infringing websites.
I'm happy to report to you that both SOPA and PIPA have been indefinitely postponed in both the House and Senate.
Online piracy, specifically the illegal copying and infringement of music and movies created by American artists remains a very serious problem. And while SOPA and PIPA went about it the wrong way, artists and content creators deserve to have their work protected. It is possible to go after the foreign rogue websites that are infringing on American intellectual property without sacrificing the Internet we all enjoy. That's why I introduced H.R. 3782, the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Piracy (OPEN) Act" in the House with more than two-dozen original cosponsors.
The OPEN Act will target just the foreign sites that operate specifically for the purpose of stealing and misappropriating other people's intellectual property, and it won't subject legitimate websites to collateral damage. My solution was written with input from the online community and has been deemed by many as the preferred alternative to dealing with international online-piracy.
You can find out more about the OPEN Act and submit comments and suggestions on this legislation by visiting www.KeepTheWebOpen.com.
Should we be worried?
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So. I sent letters to my Senators and Congressmen about SOPA/PIPA, like I was told to during the whole trying to get rid of it thing. I just got this e-mail from Congressman Darrell Issa:
Dear Ms. Cook:
Thank you for contacting me to state your opposition to the legislation known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
I share your concern and am opposed to both SOPA and PIPA. In fact, I led the effort in the House to oppose both pieces of legislation because of provisions which would damage Domain Name Service (DNS) Security (Sec), stifle online innovation, lead to search-engine takedowns, and create a new private right of action to empower trial attorneys. Additionally I was highly concerned that SOPA and PIPA would give the Attorney General and the Department of Justice the power to potentially censor domestic, non-infringing websites.
I'm happy to report to you that both SOPA and PIPA have been indefinitely postponed in both the House and Senate.
Online piracy, specifically the illegal copying and infringement of music and movies created by American artists remains a very serious problem. And while SOPA and PIPA went about it the wrong way, artists and content creators deserve to have their work protected. It is possible to go after the foreign rogue websites that are infringing on American intellectual property without sacrificing the Internet we all enjoy. That's why I introduced H.R. 3782, the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Piracy (OPEN) Act" in the House with more than two-dozen original cosponsors.
The OPEN Act will target just the foreign sites that operate specifically for the purpose of stealing and misappropriating other people's intellectual property, and it won't subject legitimate websites to collateral damage. My solution was written with input from the online community and has been deemed by many as the preferred alternative to dealing with international online-piracy.
You can find out more about the OPEN Act and submit comments and suggestions on this legislation by visiting www.KeepTheWebOpen.com.
Should we be worried?