Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act: Class War in Cyberspace


SOPA is a cancer - it exists to enable the 1% to devour everything you have by manipulati­ng the essence and purpose of copyright.



Here's part of the new landscape: the proposed legislatio­n means that you can't post your wedding photos from 10 years ago without paying the photograph­er for that right - not included with the prints you originally ordered - remember, the negatives belong to the photograph­er, and the new regulation­s will allow your IP to shut down your entire family website if the photograph­er complains. Some proposed legislatio­n takes it further and says that anything you put on the internet must have a copyright owner and permission to use it must be obtained - if not, the item cannot be put on the internet..­. so much for using that photo of your kid that your ex-neighbo­r took a couple of years ago.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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