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Insert Your Favorite Title Here.Tomorrow EHOWA will join the many, many big named sites out there who are planning to shut down in protest of SOPA/PIPA. So tomorrow you'll get a hands on look at just how these new proposed copyright laws could affect you. SOPA's author is none other than the internet-challenged Rep Lamar Smith from Texas. And yes, in case you're wondering, it's the same Lamar Smith whose own website was guilty of copyright violations -- even continuing to do so after it was brought to your attention. Oh, and I forgot to mention that his top campaign donor is the film/entertainment industry. Wink-wink. Now, if you're up on the news, you know that SOPA was shelved recently -- note: that DOES NOT mean it's dead. SOPA is still quite alive and ready to come back and rear its ugly head as soon as the furor dies down. Furthermore, SOPA was the bill introduced by the House of Representatives. The Senate has their own gem, called the Protect IP Act (PIPA), introduced by Patrick Leahy from Vermont. Again, it's the same shit, just a different acronym. it's just as poorly written, openly/purposely vague, entertainment-industry friendly and heavy handed. Yes folks, if either of these two bills become law it WILL SPELL MOTHERFUCKING DOOM FOR THE INTERNET. But to start, let's take a quick look at an article written on a blog I frequent, called The Truth About Guns. The article goes on to detail a new bullet-counter product and throws in some colorful commentary for good measure:
In the very last sentence, the Harry Callahan link goes to this video. Listen, I'm all for copyright laws. People should reap the rewards of their hard work. But not at the expense of everything else. So let us say for the sake of argument, that Warner Brothers (the company that produced Dirty Harry way back in 1971, took issue with that little 30 second clip of Harry Callahan. The way that copyright laws would work now, Warner brothers would send a DMCA takedown notice to the company actually hosting the copyrighted video, in this case Youtube, and say more or less, "Hey man, that's out shit and you're using it without permission so take it down or we'll see you in court." Youtube would do so and anyone trying to play that video again would see a , "THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED DUE TO A DMCA REQUEST FROM WARNER BROTHERS STUDIOS." That's it. No harm, no foul. But if FUCKHEAD LAMAR gets his way, that same scenario would play out like this. Warner Brothers goes directly to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT does two things. First they order that all of the domains hosting -- OR EVEN LINKING TO -- the copyrighted material be banned from US based search engines like Google. Secondly, they FORCE financial institutions like banks and Paypal, to case processing all funding for all of the domains hosting -- OR EVEN LINKING TO -- the copyrighted material. And all of this happens without the case seeing the inside of a courtroom. Finally, some nice FBI agents -- or perhaps Immigrations and Customs Enforcement? - will be knocking on the doors of: Youtube headquarters, The-Truth-About-Guns headquarters, and my house since I linked to TTAG. We'll all be treated to a nice 5 year stay in FEDERAL PRISON and FINED UP TO $15 MILLION DOLLARS EACH. Now look back through all the years of EHOWA, and try to imagine how many times I've made movie references, or used a screen cap from a movie, or quotes a line from a song. Yeah, exactly. Does any part of that sound reasonable? Thes the ability of the government to block access to any part of the internet sound like anything other than what it is: CENSORSHIP. Probably the first step in a long line, I would venture to guess. The only way to prevent it coming crashing down on us is to stop that first step. Call your Representatives. Call your Senators. Tell them SOPA and PIPA are pieces of shit let them know that if this legislation gets in, their fat asses are out. Otherwise? What you see tomorrow will only be the beginning.
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