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| Mushi #830846 6 months ago |
Pipa = kite
SOPA = soup yay for portuguese |
| LordBristle #830857 6 months ago |
This, OP? |
| Michos #830860 6 months ago |
pipa=vagina
yay for polish |
| DeeperMadness #830871 6 months ago |
Seriously now, why do such a very vocal minority of Americans have an agenda against the Internet? Did the Internet drink when they were young? Did it touch them inappropriately? I mean, c'mon, haven't they heard that there's a world outside of their own doorstep? The whole planet would be affected by it.
Well, they would be at least until everyone decides to segregate America from hosting so many websites. Why would you want a business that can't show it's adverts or copyrighted media outside of one nation without jumping through hoops first? |
| Anonymous #830887 6 months ago |
These bills aren't about stopping piracy at all. They're quite aware that they won't even do much to combat piracy because DNS blacklists are embarrassingly easy to work around.
These bills are about giving companies the tools to stifle new competition and raise barriers to entry so entrenched businesses can further corner the market. |
| Shockblock99 #830921 6 months ago |
The 'vocal minority' backing the bill is largely in the entertainment industry and people who think the internet should be as regulated as a prison. One group is 'losing' money through internet piracy while the other is just bitchy.
But really, you two have said it better than I could right now. |
| Anonymous #830923 6 months ago |
PIPA is just the Senate version of SOPA.
It means that you should be calling your Senators up right along with your Representative. But they're still fundamentally the same bill, just bicameralized. |
| Wheezie_Moonflower #832224 6 months ago |
PIPA essentially helps tear down rights to resell stuff. If you buy an IKEA clock and paint it up with some beautiful designs. Now, if you try to sell it, IKEA can block your sale, as what you did was made with their intellectual property, in the form of the clock's design. Even if you transform it out of all recognition, it is still their clock. They make no money on the resale, so you are competing with them with a modified version of their product. They can block that, too.
This right was protected in 1906. There was some case in the late 80s where a merchant was buying/selling used Levis pants, not too far away from a Miller's Outpost store. They claimed they lost sales, but they were struck down as the original articals were legitimately purchased. This PIPA law possibly aims to get rid of that, therefore saddling us with old video games systems, old clothes and even antiques we want to sell. We got to stop them both. |