Comments on: SOPA and PIPA for newbies

By: an0nymousR3v3ng3

an0nymousR3v3ng3 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:32:11 +0000

bama it all ties together and will be implimented soon if we dont stand together and act…….i take tht back its not time to act time has run out we act now or its too late………….

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:45 +0000

Is this article supposed to be a joke?

Both of these bills have been amended since their first drafts, SOPA very heavily, yet you reference analyses and text of the original, non-amended bills. In particular, the DNS provisions have been completely removed, yet the final three articles you reference comment on them as if they were still live features.

The Social Media Collective article says: “They both require DNS blocking” but neither does. The Reddit article says: “Note: In recent news, several legislators have suggested that they will be removing the DNS provisions from both SOPA and PROTECT IP. However, those provisions still exist in the bills today, and they are likely to still be debated. For these reasons, I’m going to include the DNS provisions in this discussion” and the bill text references for SOPA are to the first draft, not the third draft that’s the current topic.

No one should take this article to be a fair and accurate commentary on the state of Protect IP or SOPA today.

By: tylee

tylee — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:09:20 +0000

So does this mean no more free porn???

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:06:36 +0000

I pay monthly for access to this info forget paying for Internet of I can’t use it, they need to take money from the company’s who subscribe us Internet access not people who pay for sites but the people allowing us access to the world wide web if it’s all about money and copyright we the people are created the gov we the people can change the gov

By: Annabel Jane Williams

Annabel Jane Williams — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:22:51 +0000

sorry but why on earth do the americans think they have any right to dictate what i, as a british citizen, can view on the internet. these record companies make billions of dollars in album sales regardless of pirating on the internet, this is just greedy multimillion companies wanting more and more money, for less and less.

By: john johnson

john johnson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:02:08 +0000

Whats next,if im playing a song on a radio out in public i can get into trouble because i let some strangers hear the song so now i violated someones copyright? So the next time i dvr a movie on cable and i happen to let my neighbor catch part of the movie because i didnt close my drapes i violated some other persons rights? You have to be kidding. This is just the start of censorship that the goverment wants because they want to control what you say. They see now how internet brings people together on issues and it threatens them. Dont be fooled by this bs. This is just the beginning of an even bigger censorship that will follow soonafter. They want to prevent things like Occupy from happening again or another type of uprising against the machine.This must be stopped. Dont let them take freedom of speech away by masking it with this pirating crap.

By: Dan Bourdeau

Dan Bourdeau — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:24:22 +0000

Thank you!

By: Jill Kennedy

Jill Kennedy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:30:38 +0000

Hollywood is absolutely out of visionaries. The studios have been taken over completely by lawyers and MBAs – even in the creative areas. Most new innovation has moved over the last few years to Silicon Valley and it probably won’t return. The ‘dinosaur’ term for old media may be here to stay unless they start to think differently.

http://mankabros.com/blogs/chairman/2011/09/28/hollywood-is-out-of-visionaries/