URGENT - americancensorship Says Call Senator Today to stop US Govt Filtering The Net (PROTECT IP)

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Just go to http://americancensorship.org/ and enter your phone and zip code

(e-mail address not necessary) and they will connect you IMMEDIATELY to your Senator.

(Don't make the mistake I did of signing up late at night, they automatically patch you in)

When americancensorship.org calls, the four key talking points they mention in the message are:

1. The bill will do nothing to stop piracy on the Internet. People looking for
pirated material will still be able to find it. The bill does not target any actual piracy,
only copyright claims by third parties on potentially fair-use material hosted on legal websites.

2. The bill would endanger many sites on the web by making them liable for what users post
and subject to shut-down at the request of a copyright owner.

3. The bill is a jobs killer. Many major sites that today employ thousands could never
have started under the Protect IP Act.

4. The bill gives aid and comfort to authoritarian regimes that wish to censor the Internet
using nationwide filtering like in China. If America does so, they will encourage most
nations to embrace censorship using DNS filtering techniques that America previously opposed.

For more information, see my previous two threads on the subject:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2346109

Time Magazine Confirms That Dems are Co-Sponsoring A Bill To DNS Filter sites
to purge the Net of "unauthorized" copyrighted material including clips, at the
discretion of the copyright holder, "China-style" -- Federal Gov't would blacklist
sites (such as DU) hosting user-submitted copyrighted material including unauthorized
fair-use clips, such as cover songs, screencaps, and the like. Enforcement would be
subject to the whims of the copyright holder (only for works valued $2500 or more)

PROTECT IP Act Moves Through Congress

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2284667

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. K&*R

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2. bump

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3. Wow, this thread sank. Anyone interested in calling your Senator?

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4. dup n/t

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5. Anyone? Is this still on?

I am not sure what the current status is of this bill. I figure there has to be Dems on Capitol Hill who oppose it, who can give us a status update, right? I mean Bill Clinton probably would've opposed it...

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6. So, did anyone call?

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7. No response :-(

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8. Bumping, seeking info on this bill or comment.

The bill would essentially revise standards of fair use...

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9. Soooo... does anyone know what's happened with this bill?