Protect IP Act May Be Amended

angry tapir writes "The controversial U.S. copyright enforcement bill called The Protect IP Act may be amended on the Senate floor later this month in response to ongoing concerns about its provisions affecting Internet service providers and the domain-name system, according to the bill's chief sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat."

Comments

Sorry, but fuck you.

[Anonymous Coward]

We still don't want it even with an amendments.

Re:Sorry, but fuck you.

[Joce640k]

The problem is that when you vote somebody out, all their garbage laws stay behind.

Re:Sorry, but fuck you.

[unity100]

record labels are making a LIVING based on how well THEIR art is received, you say ?

are you a fucking moron ? excuse me, but really, are you a fucking idiot ?

record labels do NOTHING other than keeping bands perpetually in debt to them, and give just cents over dozens of dollars of album sales, forcing them to go on tours worldwide not to make money, but to be able to pay the 'loans' they got from the record label in the initial contracts.

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/07/13/1737224

THEY DONT EVEN PAY ARTISTS !

http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-major-labels-cook-the-books-with-digital-downloads

http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

you dont know shit about this, yet you are making grandstand statements like 'When you're making a living based on how well your art is received, then let's talk'.

LETS talk then. lets talk about how record labels are not paying musicians, keeping them in perpetual debt, dodging taxes and royalties, and gulping 90% of the revenue generated by content sales.

or alternatively, you can just shut the fuck up, and educate yourself before you make another grandstanding statement for next time. i think that's the better option.

Someone help me out here - business question

[mykos]

What's that business concept called where they run the business to its crashing point, then try to run it just a hair above that? They do it to try to figure out where the rock bottom is on what they can get away with to maximize profits.

I'm thinking the same thing goes on in government. They do something that has people breaking out their guillotines so they can do juuuuuuust slightly less than that.

Re:Someone help me out here - business question

[Joce640k]

Where's that Heinlein quote...oh, yes, here it is:

"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea
that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the
public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged
with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing
circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is
supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or
individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock
of history be stopped, or turned back."

- Heinlein, Life Line, 1939