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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
SOPA has a lot of haters. That's a fact. However, if you look at the DMCA and its flaws, SOPA is just a natural progression.
Maybe the better alternative is to FIX DMCA first before moving to more draconian measures like SOPA?
Check this article out and read the figures Google supplied regarding DMCA. It's quite sobering. http://gigaom.com/2011/11/27/with-fr...ho-needs-sopa/ |
But consider this.
The real problem is that sites like youtube don't just host uploaded content, they
publish it. It's not like your hosting company that gives you a server and only you
publish the uploads.
So the law is trying to protect youtube in the same way that your hosting company
is protected but they aren't even doing the same thing.
One is hosting and the other is hosting and publishing.
Publishing is where copyright actually comes into play. It's not illegal to record a TV
show and upload it to your server for you to watch later. You are not publishing
it until you post a link to it.
If you upload and publish content that you know is legal then false claims mean nothing
to you. But youtube doesn't know what it is publishing so they have a problem with
false claims.
So the real question is "who the fuck ever changed the law to allow people to publish
content they don't buy, create, own or fall into fair use guide lines?" Nobody!
The DMCA is just a way around the real law and it deserves to be abused because
it's an abuse of the real law to begin with.
People like youtube and because people like it then it "must be right".
Too bad it's not right and it never was right, but since we like it so much we have
to fiddle with the law to "make it right".
Publish your own content and not someone else's and that will end of problem.