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Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
... hard enough yet.
So far the MPAA has been losing everywhere for years. I don't see this going anywhere.
Lets say they get ISPs to do one thing or another. So what? Worst case you run your dirty traffic through a VPN.
This gets nutty enough and large portions of the web will go from the conventional internet to the dark web.
They need to offer their content on the streaming services and they need to do it at a competitive rate.
If they can't make money like that then cut production costs. That's all they can do.
Stopping the piracy isn't going to happen because the communications network is inherently uncontrolled and uncontrollable. The Iranians and the Chinese can't control their network... why would the stupid studios think they could control the US network? Ignorance.
You can control the system if you control everything. Run the internet like the north koreans and you can lock it down.
But that won't happen so the whole thing is pointless.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
We keep running around fighting fires instead of fighting arsonists
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The people who want to maintain the exploitation market (you didn't think it was actual artists getting paid did you?) will just try again and again and win a victory of a thousand cuts eventually. We need to put them in cages at the very least. This is a losing battle the way it's being fought.
We should pick one of the very sleazy operators like Sony and keep going after them through a multitude of approaches and just keep coming until they no longer exist.
Make their name a synonym for when the population turns on a corporation and irrevocably crushes it into the dirt.
Make every corporation on earth fear getting Sony'd.
The way you've been conditioned to think about conflict are the values of the exploited and defeated population. Greenfield your preconceptions. Fight the dirty fight and win or they will.
Did you expect the people who wanted this legislation to stop wanting it just because it didn't go through the first time? They're always going to keep pushing for it, regardless of how many times it gets voted down, so you're always going to have to keep opposing them.
Take a look at it from a different angle. Gay people didn't stop pushing for marriage rights just because they had been denied in the past or ballot measures were unsuccessful. Why should you finding it surprising that the people who want SOPA or similar laws would quit just because it didn't work the first time?
Then your going to be partially disappointed. The "elite" have already planned for this "revolution", that's why we're seeing all this Confederate flag crap. They know the situation is getting worse, so they've gotten the population to fight amongst themselves. What SHOULD be is "poor" black citizens and "poor" white citizens should be banding together to defeat their common enemy. Instead they are waving / destroying / fighting over a flag of a failed insurrection. The "poor" whites actually think the GOP is "on their side" since the elites are white too; but they aren't considered human by the ultra-wealthy. Newscorp is involved with both the MPAA and stirring racial tensions.