Take Action: ISPs Selling Out Customers, Pushing Backdoor SOPA (online petition)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

NOTE: Because this is a call to action and the originator is REQUESTING that we spread the word, I am not following DU's "four paragraphs of copyrighted material." here.

Take Action: ISPs Selling Out Customers, Pushing Backdoor SOPA

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/backdoor_sopa/?source=fb

Take Action: ISPs Selling Out Customers, Pushing Backdoor SOPA

They're selling us out. Just weeks after Internet users from across the globe came together to to beat SOPA, the major ISPs are cutting a deal with Big Content to restrict web access for users who are accused of piracy.

It'll do much of the dirty work we were able to prevent when we took down SOPA, this time by restricting certain Americans' access to the WHOLE Internet.

The details are fuzzy, but the head of the Recording Industry Association of America's bragged this week that ISPs will start policing copyright by July of this year. Here's RT's take:

Some of the biggest Internet service providers in America plan to adopt policies that will punish customers for copyright infringement, and one of the top trade groups in the music biz announced this week that it could begin as soon as this summer....

RIAA CEO Cary Sherman was one of the guest speakers among a New York panel this week and he confirmed that, at this rate, some of the most powerful Internet providers in America should have their new policies on the books by July 12, 2012.

The ISPs are poised to start treating their customers like criminals, restricting their access to the Internet. And they're cutting us off at the knees just ast we've begun to force a new conversation about Internet freedom and copyright law.

Please sign on to our open letter demanding they back down:

OPEN LETTER TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS: Just weeks after the Internet banded together to beat back SOPA you've apparently chosen out your customers. You're undermining the emerging new dialogue about Internet freedom in America. We need you to back down from your "graduate response" plan.

Just add your name at right to sign on to our petition to the ISPs.

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R!!!!

[Heywood J]

2. "the head of the Recording Industry Association of America's bragged this week"

Isn't that Chris Dodd?

[SomethingFishy]

4. God I am so tired of this bullshit..

You ever notice that the only ones complaining about "copywrite violations" are huge companies who are making money off of other peoples creations...

I know many musicians who offer their music for "pay whatever you can" and are doing fine. Much better than they would were they signed to a label.

I just read an interview with "Notch" the creator of the Indie game "Minecraft". Minecraft is huge in the PC gaming world. When they asked Notch how much piracy was hurting him and his game. "Not at all, there are enough honest people in the world that we are making plenty of money, piracy isn't affecting us in the least".

It's all bullshit.

[greyl]

5. Because they're huge, they're the only ones we (usually) hear about. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

6. K&R! Done!