Comments on: Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:55:14 +0000

I’d never buy and ebook. Not the same as a real book. If an ebook breaks, well, that’s a lot of money wasted. And many ebook ‘books’ are unavailable in certain countries.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:29:55 +0000

“But the vast majority of customers are willing to pay if the product is widely available and the price is fair”.

Wrong. The inclination to pirate grows every day as the costs of hard assets that cannot be pirated grows. In fact, given a world of 7 billion people and a developed/developing world of 4.5 billion – the inclination is fast becoming an imperative.

“If SOPA goes through, it could very well force certain innovative companies to go offshore”

Again, wrong. These industries are already moving offshore for cost reasons. And they are moving to places like Turkey and China where there is actually quite a lot of government intervention.

Your posting is nothing but propaganda, Tim, and clumsy propaganda at that.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:48:46 +0000

I just bought the Kindle Fire for 199.00 which works with Amazon and I have to say that I have found many very affordable 2.00-3.00 books in e form and am loving it as I can carry a library in my pocket and be reading a half a dozen different books and switch between them at the flick of a finger.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:23:45 +0000

long live pirate bay. they are gonna filter our internet, but guess what will go untouched?? major business advertisements. if this passes, i guess im just gonna have to really STEAL my stuff. thanks gov

By: Georgie

Georgie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:33:37 +0000

Interesting. While I have concerns being in an industry that needs protection from burglary or piracy of intellectual property, I think it’s important that folks see this bill for what it really is. Unfortunately many people dismiss things before their eyes when dirty words like ‘conspiracy theory’ pop up, but when all the pieces are put together in a bowl in front of you, it becomes readily apparent what kind of salad you really have. The US govt has been veying for an “internet kill-switch” for some time now, and this bill – under the guise of copyright protection – is the means in which conglomerates are trying to achieve that. If you look at the testing theater grounds of the middle east last year where social media became the common citizens weapon of choice and essentially only defense, it’s clear as day that big brother cannot rule by fist when all forms of communication by those being ruled cannot be controlled. But in western society unlike the middle east and other areas, this cannot be force-fed, the citizens wouldn’t stand for it. They have to convince society they want it and it’s for their best interest. The reality is though, that there are lawyers and legal systems for individuals and companies to help protect and remedy themselves in individual and on a case by case basis. It’s a shadow game that really has almost nothing to do with copyright protection. Couple all aforementioned comments with the new NDAA bill that passed in the black of night on NYE and the recent and ongoing comments by J. Neopolitano [sic], and that paints a very disturbing picture of where this world is headed if people do not speak up and protect their narrowing avenues of free speech and communication.

By: Eff Off SOPA

Eff Off SOPA — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:55:48 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! These Is No Need to Change Anything. Piracy is hardly a real issue, these movie stars and music stars are STILL MAKING MONEY with or without the piracy. and For companies to somehow make claim like its stopping them from making Money is Ridiculous. Selling items online is no different than me just having a yard sale for the crap I no longer want or need.
Give Us Our Freedom! Set Us Free! Why Must Corporations Feel The Need TO Have Control! Move to a Commy Country If Control Is Really THAT Important To You! Gah! -_-

By: Seymour Butz

Seymour Butz — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:06:26 +0000

Jim, how in the name of God can anyone tell a pirated MP3 file from one I ripped myself off a CD? And let’s not even get into legally-purchased M4Ps that have been converted into M4As to futureproof them. Or did the RIAA simply assume that all audio files that don’t carry the appropriate signature from Amazon, etc. are pirated? Remember, this is the industry that sued people for sharing Metallica MP3s that actually weren’t Metallica MP3s… some mischievous fellows renamed files to include “Metallica” and “MP3″ in their name and their record company dutifully sued the sharers, despite never bothering to verify whether the shared data was infringing. You honestly want to give the kind of power that SOPA/PIPA grants to these incompetent fools?

By: Howard Cunniffe

Howard Cunniffe — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:29:21 +0000

I am writing in behalf of Sopa trying to get rid of web sites like http://www.openmikes.org.This is a great web site for poets,comics and musicians.Musicians like myself like performing in Open Mic nights because they want their songs to be heard.Plus it helps keep venues continue doing Open Mic as long as the venue is making money.Paul Roub and I never met,but have chated by e-mail quite a few times.It’s not easy to put up a web site and exspect that everybody knows all about it.I beleave that Paul Roub does an excellent job keeping his web site going and also helps keep Live Music going as well!So Sopa can leave http://www.openmikes.org alone.There is no crime about having an Open Mic web site for the whole world to see!

By: GODFATHERRN@GMAIL RNC

GODFATHERRN@GMAIL RNC — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:42:06 +0000

Wow 85%-95% of all music is pirated, this sounds like a good thing for the music industry to have so many people downloading their music becoming fans wow I bet they may even end up being tickets to their shows and buying their merchandise, but we live in a world where people always need more your right music is suffering last time I saw mtv cribs it looks like the music industry is in trouble only 8 cars in the garage of a 10 bedroom house that 1person lives in ya the pirate active online has truly hurt then
. And, how know what you will say now but what about us little guys just trying to get started I say encourage people to pirate your music get your name out their the more downloaded the better then mabe you can gain enof fans to have a big full concert and you can make money on ticket sales and merchandise all because people pirate and your name got out given it makes for some hard times waiting to get big but it works

By: GODFATHER RNC

GODFATHER RNC — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:37 +0000

I agree with you a little however I am a technical support agent and 12hrs without Google would make a very hard day. But I do agree it would put the point across. But I don’t think BING would go for it as I would bet Microsoft is loving the idea of SOPA