Urgent: To all music lovers

[photojojo]

ZDNet article

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/sopa-w...24?tag=nl.e539

[illstep]

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?tta

avaaz is collecting digital signatures for their petition. does take like 20 seconds!

[Xonetacular]

Unfortunately online petitions are completely meaningless.

[Dj_4-$hure]

The government has bigger plans, to own every single soul out there. The internet is the least of my worries.

[The Vly]

This bill is very real and incredibly frightening.
The "second side of the story" is really nonexistent. The bill is backed mainly by the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Disney, Viacom and Time Warner...

http://americancensorship.org/thanks..._name=act&rd=1

[dafe]

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.

Absolutely. We've all heard how piracy funds terrorism. I'm surprised that fact didn't actually get mentioned in the bill

[Karlos Santos]

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.

You completely missed my point.

I appreciate this is a music based forum so the question is valid.
My point is that if people just talk about the restrictions the bill will have on pirated music or soundcloud or similar such topics your/my/our concerns will be brushed aside as "Just defending piracy".

This bill affects people in untold ways but its easier for the bills supporters to attack the people against it if they take a narrow view of what its affects will be.

"You just want free porn and music"... That is what the bills supporters will say.

Its the wider issues that will get this bill stopped not peoples concerns about hosting mixes on Soundcloud or video montages of their kids on YouTube. These issue are a piss in the ocean to the people that support this bill even if they are life changing to us.

My point is to be more realistic about how this bill can be stopped.

[please...sometimes the nuance in discussion on this forum is totally lost]

[photojojo]

Absolutely. We've all heard how piracy funds terrorism. I'm surprised that fact didn't actually get mentioned in the bill

Terrorism isn't the only national security threat.

[Mylestec]

I'm personally offended by that comment. I take my job as a photojournalist very seriously and for you to tell me that I'm in any way in bed with the government and that they control what I put in the paper is ignorant on your part.

I don't know JoJo.. You very well may take your work seriously and conduct yourself in a professional manner, but I think maybe your taking his comment a little to personally. It is difficult to say exactly what the truth is, but for sure large media companies' interests are not always in alignment with the general public. In fact, it is clear their interests are more closely aligned with the corporations which pay for advertisements.

Keeping the post on topic - it may be useful for all respondents to this thread to thumb through and read parts of the 78 page document as it is quite threatening to many platforms we use daily for our craft. More importantly though is that it is extremely threatening to the platforms that are currently being leveraged to organize large scale democratic action around the world. Read the document. If you agree, then write your local representatives....

[dafe]

Terrorism isn't the only national security threat.

I read somewhere once that there are only 2 real national security threats for america. everyone outside america, and everyone inside america.[/jest]