Since when did politicians get tech savvy? DNS in bills??
Re: We're not all pirates
Dex
1/19/2012 9:03:02 AM
More legislation = more expense in the long run for all of us = more loss of personal freedom.
All in all, SOPA is a bad idea all around.
Re: We're not all pirates
back2basicz
1/19/2012 8:28:03 AM
Noreen,
Prof.Werbach seems to have put the issue very much in the right perspective.
The trouble is that Big Media still wants to go back to the Good ol' days (of record bonuses with very low risk for their companies);unfortunately as Webach says you cant put the Internet genie in the bottle anymore.
Big Media has to learn to compete with this competition & the faster they do it,the better it is for the surviving members of this industry(or else they could all go bust and nobody would care...)
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/how-copyright-industries-con-congress/
http://www.gao.gov/assets/310/303057.pdf
http://www.itworld.com/security/242587/best-evidence-showing-we-need-sopa-based-govt-studies-never-existed
As for the numbers for all the losses coming in from SOPA,as the above articles say-the losses would most probably not go beyond USD 90 million(& enforcement costs to US Govt would be about USD 50 million)-Does it make economic sense to introduce such legislation then?
I think not.
Regards
Ashish.
Subtext: Congressmen need more time to meet with Disney, Viacom, and News Corp. Lobbyists.
I cannot believe the media industry still thinks the solution is to lock up the Internet. You would have thought they had learned something from what happened to the music industry?
Does anybody use Napster anymore? No, because it became so easy to buy and transfer music content that people now do it legally. They grew the market. And Apple's making the most money because the music industry was afraid to do the right thing in the beginning and traded away all their negotiating power.
Tricky, tricky politicians.
Yes, but...(there is always a but Joey)
Yes, the legislation’s House and Senate backers said they’d review a controversial provision that would de-list rogue sites from the Domain Name System (DNS). However, they haven’t abandoned these provisions — they just want more time to study them. The Senate bill is still scheduled for a vote next week. As Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) pointed out yesterday, it’s premature to write an obituary for SOPA and PIPA.
In a recent blog post titled "Digital Content: The Half-Full Glass," Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach notes that SOPA and PIPA ignore the "great Internet success story" of authorized digital-content distribution.
"Reading [these bills], one would think that no one pays for digital content," Werbach writes. "Yet we know empirically that the market is thriving. Anecdotally, too. Ask a roomful of college students if they've obtained digital content through unauthorized means. Every hand might go up. Then ask whether they also pay for those very same forms of content. You could get the same response."
Werbach cites Apple, Hulu, Netflix and Pandora, among others, as examples of companies that are "monetizing digital content in unique, creative ways, while sending licensing fees back to the record labels and other content owners. Even licensed mobile ringtones are a $2 billion global business.
"The market isn't perfect," Werbach concedes. " It is a challenging time to be in any kind of content industry. We must accept, however, that the Internet genie will never go back in the bottle. It's time to build upon the successes of digital distribution, rather than imposing ever wider spheres of legal liability."
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