MPAA Calls SOPA Blackout Day Dangerous and Irresponsible

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]When these bills are written by Republicans and partially backed by Democrats, who the hell are you supposed to vote for? Time for more than 2 parties.[/citation]
1. As I recall, PIPA was actually introduced by a Democrat, Patrick Leahy of Vermont... Someone who, overall, is in fact one of the more LIBERAL Democrats. And Harry Reid, likewise, was in favor of it.

2. A true multi-party system with more than two parties never works out. Even in countries with such systems present, it invariably winds up just being a two-sided system; only instead of parties, it's coalitions. (on a technicality, even the US Republicans and Democrats are actually coalitions) A majority coalition is required in any legislature to form a government; so a multitude of parties just groups itself naturally to two coalitions. This is already at work in the US Senate, for instance, where Bernie Sanders of Vermont is an independent (And self-labeled socialist) who caucuses with the Democrats, counting as an additional seat. (and one of two independents that the Democrats needed from 2007-2009 in order to have a majority)

 

[COLGeek]

No great surprise that the MPAA supports PIPA and SOPA (since many say they have effectively paid for this legislation). I oppose both vehemently. Nothing will do more harm to the Internet than this misguided pair of legislation. Contract your Senators or Representatives to put a stop to this madness!!!!

 

[captaincharisma]

no an abuse of power is forcing every movie to have the cheesy 3D effect and releasing more bad movies than good every year.

 

[poxenium]

I'm sorry, is this the famous corporate america thinking?
... no words ... all I have to say can be said with just one finger.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]nottheking[/nom]Funny that, the United States has only existed for about 235 years. Please don't turn this into an American-bashing tirade. Remember that many of the great entrepreneurs that are speaking OUT against SOPA most are, in fact, Americans themselves: Jimmy Wales, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page are all American-born. (Sergey Brin is a Soviet-American who immigrated at age 6)[/citation]
1492, check that date in history

 

[Blink]

I found an interesting link this morning that shows who is in Support and who is Againt SOPA/PIPA. You can even sort by state. Unfortunately even a number of those who are supposedly against it are only against it in its current form. Meaning they want to screw us more subtly. So do your homework and give these people the middle finger next election!

projects.propublica.org/sopa

 

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]nottheking[/nom]the United States has only existed for about 235 years.[/citation]
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]1492, check that date in history[/citation]
Am I the only one who spots the horrendous failure of logic on your part?

And besides, Christopher Columbus' voyage was hardly the first European one to settle at North America; the first actually happened around the year 999.

 

[thrasher32]

I think the MPAA is dangerous and irresponsible. So there.

 

[tokencode]

The MPAA has no idea what is up against. The only thing irressponsible is endangering our freedom of speech in order to protect the MPAA and RIAA's broken business model.

 

[f-14]

i guess the truth is more then they can handle because the day SOPA and PIPA pass is the day the MPAA and RIAA will start paying thousands of lawyers to start defending their rights by attacking the web in massive take down suits that will block out theses sites protesting as well as up to 1/3 of the web.

On Tuesday the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had the nerve to strike out against those expressing Free Speech (PDF), calling the protest "dangerous"

exposing the reality of their truth before it is made law in showing the end result of said law before it becomes law is kind of like MADD protestors showing up to their jobs/school dressed as corpses and ghosts and not talking or interacting with any one just like if they were actually one of the dead in the statistics that make up the drunk driving deaths per year on drug awareness day.

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]keczapifrytki[/nom]"These sites include Destructoid, Facebook, Google, Mozilla, Reddit, Tuscows, Wikipedia, WordPress, XDA-Developers and many others"From what I read, Facebook, unfortunately, is not participating in the blackout.[/citation]
proving once again it is all about the money face book would lose for just one day despite being one of the first domains that would be blocked.
zuckerfool really either knows he's screwed and trying to get every last red cent he can before he gets eliminated from the web or just to greedily stupid to realize this is his only chance to stay on the web.