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Originally Posted by joshgirls
with respect to the oatmeal clip...are they arguing it should be OK for surfers to shop oprahs & jesus image & use them for their own creative purposes?
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fair use.
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& sopa opponents say nobody argues something needs to be done about piracy, but offers no alternatives.
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just because someone offers no alternative, it doesn't mean the points they're making about SOPA aren't valid.
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if a law that shuts down "sites dedicated to piracy" is overly broad, what is the non government alternative. The history of self policing in the private sector is not very good. This is why some people want the government to regulate things, in this case protection of creative peoples IP.
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Seems to me that some of the same people that want the government to take care of everything are the same people that constantly complain but are unwilling to do something themselves.
The current laws already allow you to sue those that violate your IP rights, yet most people prefer to bitch on the boards instead of actually suing someone.
Those same people dismiss the possibility that SOPA/PIPA might be abused by people who want to harm their competition. They use the argument that if someone files a bogus SOPA complaint against you, you can simply sue them back. Yet these same people apparently think suing someone involves too much hassle, otherwise they would already be suing those that violate their IP rights under the current system.
Over the years I've seen several people complain about illegal tubes and torrent sites and about the dating sites that "support them by advertising on those tubes and torrent sites". But at the same time, those same people have no problem sending traffic to those same dating sites. Double standard?
Problem is we have a lot of lazy people here. Not just on this board... not just in this industry... Our society is filled with more and more people that bitch and complain but are too lazy to do anything themselves.
Take epassporte for example. A lot of us got hurt. There's a few that actually sued Mallick. There's those who wrote it of as a loss (after analyzing the potential risks/costs etc of suing him). There's those who made sure the Goole serps are now filled with anti-mallick sites. And there's the majority that complained but didn't do anything.
What the hell happened to personal responsibility?!
"self policing in the private sector" doesn't mean you hope other people will suddenly stop violating your rights. It means that you yourself take things into your own hands. It means that you sue those that violate your rights and make money off of it. It means that you make the effort to stop promoting those companies that you complain about. It means that you come up with better ways to convince your potential customers that your product is better, more reliable than that of others. It means that you figure out how to best make use of new technologies. It means that you take responsibility for yourself and your company.