"SOPA and the Film Industry"

[handmade34]

"The entertainment industry fights every innovation that infringes on their territory. And then they make money off of it after they lose. You’d think they’d learn their lesson after half a century."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/18/the-entertainment-industry-always-tries-to-suppress-innovation-and-is-always-wrong-infographic/

[sofa king]

1. What a beautiful graphic.

Worth remembering: the reason why It's a Wonderful Life is the most popular Christmas film on television is because it accidentally fell into the public domain in the 1970s.

[wtmusic]

2. "It's as if someone shoplifts in your store, SOPA allows the government to shut down your store."

No, it's not "as if" that at all.

It's "as if" your have a business selling stolen property, SOPA allows the government to shut down your business. But it also allows the government to shut down the company who rents the building for your business (for people who absolutely need analogies to grasp what's at stake).

[frylock]

5. a lot of people lost quite a bit of data when the feds took down megaupload..

a better analogy might be someone keeping stolen goods at a storage facility. maybe you store items that were not stolen at this facility, but because someone stored stolen goods there, your stuff was also seized.

[Mosaic]

3. Internet wins: PIPA/SOPA postponed

It's almost dead, just a few more to vote against it.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/20/internet-wins-votes-on-pipasopa-indefinitely-postponed/

[handmade34]

4. a grand victory...

it always helps to understand victories as well ...and histories

[Jkid]

6. The instant you forget your history, the instant you want to repeat it.

[meow2u3]

7. Piracy is perfectly fine if corporations perpetrate it

But let the little guy use the exact same tactics and right away it's a serious crime!

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for thread, handmade.