Urgent: To all music lovers

[Johnv]

Article from engadget entailing a letter from some of the larger Internet companies speaking out against the bill:

http://m.engadget.com/default/articl...eng_latest_art


I understand the purpose of the bill, but it seems as though they're simply going too far with it.

[Santos10]

It doesn't matter how you get your music, it will royally screw everything up for people who purchase their music. Anyone could go out and claim there is an unauthorized sample in a track and have beatport held responsible. You can forget about soundcloud, mixcloud, youtube, djtechtools, blogs, forums, and hosting site, pretty much they would have the power to shut down anything where music gets posted with no due process. So it affects music lovers and anyone in general.

took the words right out of my mouth.. I also made it the title to hopefully pull more people into the thread since it is a music-based forum

[farhanashraf]

never gonna happen

[mart21har]

1st amendment anyone?

[Xonetacular]

1st amendment anyone?

but we must attempt to stop piracy! think of hollywood's lost profits!

[photojojo]

I asked my political friend about this he says it can be portrayed as a national security thing to get more ground and that email campaigns are next to pointless with most politicians.

[Xonetacular]

Yeah emailing and online petitions don't do anything. Physical direct form mailing is much more useful.

[photojojo]

He said don't discount calling either. You can use the form above to find out who the letter goes to and then just google their names to get their office number.

[LeeZer]

It doesn't matter how you get your music, it will royally screw everything up for people who purchase their music. Anyone could go out and claim there is an unauthorized sample in a track and have beatport held responsible. You can forget about soundcloud, mixcloud, youtube, djtechtools, blogs, forums, and hosting site, pretty much they would have the power to shut down anything where music gets posted with no due process. So it affects music lovers and anyone in general.

this is the point exactly i believe. The internet would take a 3 decade backtrack if this happens end of

[spiz]

This is true. If you follow these type of laws you will see that congress/govt is actively trying to pass some type of censorship of the internet. IMO it's one of the important issues of our time. If you care, absolutely follow and sign the petitions and keep the internet free of restrictions.