Hollywood Pushes Back on SOPA

President! lol...the entire Government is up for grabs, if you have the money to buy it.

Don't worry, SOPA will pass as a law. When he signed NDAA, he said something like- I don't agree with everything it says but I signed it anyway. If you translate that, it would be like I have no brain of my own to think, so I am just doing what I was told to do.

This is like a comedy club, hard to resist.

These are the same people for whom the sky was falling because of:

Cassette Tapes
CD-Roms
DVDs
VCRs

all of which ultimately created billions of extra revenue for the entertainment industry.

But they never learn. They absolutely hate, hate, hate the Internet.

In their eyes the Internet is another way to copy their stuff, and now Apple and Amazon are forcing a 99 cent product model down their throats.

Since they can't control it they fight to destroy it.

(How many times has the copyright law been amended right before Disney is about to lose protection of its earliest creations?!)

Some of these morons already send cease & desist letters that don't know the difference between trademark and copyright, or which absurdly claim that merely mentioning their company or product on a website is somehow illegal.

The last thing you want to do is give them leverage to destroy people's lives by letting these fools wield a new law as a weapon.


ON THE OTHER HAND ...


There is an endless supply of morons, idiots, and a grubby horde who would sell their mother if it meant making a nickel.

They could care less about intellectual property and who they hurt and damage.

If they can copy it to get a link, a search ranking, or just grab free content so they don't have to create anything on their own, they will.

There are plenty of blackhat websites, even so-called IM sites who, lets face it, exist to copy and exchange WSOs and other digital products, to exchange passwords, to upload products for free on filing sharing sites, etc.

It is insanity run amok. And there is seemingly nothing that can be done except spend a ridiculous amount of time and money playing whack-a-mole.

These a-holes are hell bent on destroying the net for everyone on this forum. There is a reason why Google and others engage in wholesale bans, even if it sweeps up innocent victims. This last year we have seen more bans and restrictions from Google, Amazon, PayPal, ClickBank, Plimus, etc. And more are coming in 2012.

They are, frankly, tired of the B.S.

And the spam, spam, spam.

It is, frankly, impossible (and too expensive) to try and play whack-a-mole with idiots in another country, and idiots in your own country who can easily hide and make it look like they are in another part of the world.

Why not make it easier to simply and quickly shut down rogue websites?

Speaking of Google, isn't it interesting they can ban websites, even whole networks such as ClickBank from Adwords, but the same websites still appear in their search results?


Something has to give.

I don't have a solution, but it is important recognize there are two "sides" both with very important issues and very important faults.

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