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The United States Congress is proposing two laws that address the problem of wide-scale unlicensed distribution on the Internet of motion pictures, songs, trademarked goods, and patented pharmaceuticals.
In both proposals, if they became law, the government of the United States would determine on application if a website was primarily engaged in unlicensed distribution. A court might hold a hearing but only if the people who run the website showed up. Otherwise, the site would be blocked by an order directing all websites in the United States with search capabilities or links to refuse to resolve any results or clicks to the blocked address.
Blocking addresses is hard to do without damaging every address on the Internet. The blocking methods suggested in these two proposals would completely confuse existing Internet functions. They would encourage multiple hacks to get around the blocks (and the proposals, it turns out, would be ineffective against very simple work-arounds). Maybe a few copyrights get saved but the price is opening massive wormholes in the Internet permitting hackers to re-direct traffic all over the place -- to malware, spyware, and phishing operations.
Identifying sites that "primarily" infringe on copyrights is full of complexity. Nobody agrees on what "primarily" means. Many sites like Wikileaks and other activist, political, and cultural websites need to copy material that is copyrighted by others who oppose their goals in order to criticize them or to bring important documents into the light. Some organizations, particularly political and religious ones, would use these laws if they were passed to try to block sites that republish controversial writings of a dictator or of a priest that they would prefer to keep under wraps.
Even harmless Internet behavior can be "primarily" an infringing activity: for example, a Tumblr account with still frames taken off of Glee. The unique address of the Tumblr account potentially could be blocked under these proposed laws.
SOPA, which would only block websites outside the United States, is a complete embarrassment to a country that has avidly supported the freedom of all peoples to express themselves openly particularly in the face of oppressive regimes. The role of the Internet in populist liberation movements is well-known and the tools used by these movements come from the people and companies that built the Internet and the Web -- not from motion picture companies and sellers of consumer goods. If the United States blocks websites over a Tom Cruise movie or a Rihanna song, other countries are certain to be encouraged by this to find cultural and political reasons to block websites from the Unites States and will refuse to open their borders, virtual or otherwise.
The Internet that has connected the world would become disconnected under these dangerous proposals.
The Internet is fragile. The worldwide protection of copyrights and trademarked goods is extensive and the laws for them already are powerful. By comparison, laws that protect an open Internet are few and far between.
The compromises that the White House calls for are going to be very difficult to reach. The motion picture studios and record companies are getting actors, directors, and singers to support SOPA and similar measures and have announced that they are not going to back down. Internet users are up in arms and protests are scheduled for January 18, 2012.
The community on deviantART is in a special position. Our members make art -- copyrighted content -- and they want it to be protected. But everyone on deviantART uses the Internet to expose themselves, their work and sometimes their souls to the world and we depend on an open platform for the very existence of the community.
DeviantART as a site and as a company promotes the rights of artists. However, SOPA and PIPA are poor "solutions", and we should all work towards other ways in which to resolve valid concerns about infringing conduct on the Internet that do not potentially harm free speech or the Internet itself.
Where do you stand?
How much power should copyright owners have?
How open must the Internet be?
Is free speech, a public right, more important than the personal rights of an artist?
Many claim that a culture can only grow and speak at all by protecting private rights in art, books, movies and music. Do you agree?
Joshua S. Wattles (makepictures )
Advisor in Chief
deviantART.com
Get educated:
The White House's statement:
Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet
Technical White paper on effect of SOPA and PIPA:
Security and Other Technical Concerns Raised by the DNS Filtering Requirements in the PROTECT IP Bill
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's update on SOPA:
SOPA Manager's Amendment: It's Still A Blacklist and It's Still A Disaster
Motion Picture Association of America's statement:
MPAA Response to White House Position on Anti-Piracy Legislation
Public Knowledge outline of SOPA:
Act Now: This Bill Seriously Screws with the Internet
Make your voice heard:
STOP SOPA Bill by sakimichan
Take a look at the deviantART front page using "Newest" in the Browse to see a remarkable community protest of SOPA and PIPA.
Meanwhile, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America has called for the White House to intervene and help big content and big tech reach compromises. See this New York Times article for more information about the issue.
Given the extraordinary grass-roots response to these proposals, almost overwhelmingly negative as reflected in all of the comments to this Journal and others on deviantART, this is a political hot potato everyone in politics will now want to stay away from.
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Tysh, I s'pose I should say, I strongly believe that musicians, artists and filmakers deserve every cent they get- They work HARD for a living, but on the other hand doing a blanket ban is not right. Not only is SOPA too broad, but it laws have to be very carefiully implemented because sometimes outright prohibiting something can make a problem worse. Before prohibition there was no real mafia, only disorganised gangs.
I don't want you to change your point of view, and I'm not asking you to do that. All I ask is that you consider mine. And I blocked you because I felt like I was being harrassed for having a different POV, not because I didn't want to hear a conflicting opinion.
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Please consider signing my petition to preserve freedom of information: [link]
On July 1, Internet Service Providers will take matters into their own hands and do on their own what SOPA and PIPA failed to do, unless we stop them immediately.
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just signed it.
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Thank you 
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Soooo... Your one of the admins? Define artist. The one who actualy learned to draw in real life or someone who learned to use photoshop and started mass producing digi art?
Composers actualy deserve every cent musicians get for CD's. Musicians deserve every cent for their perfomances,and that can not be copied.
Filmakers definetly deserve the money but I wish they would make films more accessible for public. I still cannot get my hands on original Evangelion CD's without having to look in ebay.
Is that really how Mafia came to be?
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Both. It doesn't mkatter whay your medium is, as long as you created it you should get credit for it. I agree with you, and yes that is how the Mafia started: By driving something underground, those who practose of deal in said illegal activity just become united by their dislike of the ones they feel are oppressing them. It's simple history. BTW, I agree with you and I'm really not looking for a fight.
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will ACTA have any effects on dA? >__<
i don't want to be restricted like deleting all fanarts and never will be allowed to post them!!
i wrote to some dA admins, why don't they do anything??
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ACTA effects transfering data and keeping it in your computer. Internet is not affected. On the other hand if the goverment officials check your computer you will need proof that all the didital files belong to you or were payed for officialy.
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not true! it's getting worse and worse!
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You need to. ACTA passed. copy all your files and keep them under seven locks
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i can't imagine how they want to control it... o.O
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Acta passed but wan't confirmed. EU national parlament still has to aprove it. We still have the chance
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yes, i know.
that's why i wrote e mails to almost all members of the EU parliament.
our last hope!
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I already sighned the pettione :}
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I can. Sadly if anonymous hits, the EU will be more inclined to create something similar to SOPA to hit back.
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argh... i don't want to live on this planet anymore...
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nah, stay. It's still good to live here. In a few decades? Well then we can all go to mars
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Has ACTA been passed? If anyone knows for sure could he/she tell me??
If it hasn't, we must not let it!!
International petition ----> [link]
Let's stand our ground!
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yes. it passed. hide your digi files. even legal ones
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Seriously???
I've read in wikipedia that EU signed today! That means it passed?
This can't be happening.....
There must be something we could do!
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It passed. But I just found out that ACTA has to be confirmed by EU parlament. we still have a chance
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Show the government they're making a big mistake by giving them an economic hit -> [link]
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Sorry, but unless theres a massive hack of EU files or demonstartion big enough to sway them theres nothing that can be done
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Let me chime in on the SOPA/PIPA debate.
I'm pretty pleased with the fact that SOPA has been postponed indefinitely, essentionally because it cannot be supported in its current form without making a lot of amemdments to the bill.
Blocking IP addresses is indeed hard without damaging every IPv4 address on the internet and would lead to innocent people having their IP banned and perpetrators using multiple hacks to get around the block.
In all, SOPA is ineffective.
As for older operating systems that have been deprecated or no longer supported, it certainly won't make that platform immune to wormholes on the internet as well as the decay of the functionality overall.
Now, looking at ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)...the situation over in Kielece, Poland is becoming increasingly serious as the protests turned violent as some people trashed cars and attacked police. So far, no one has been injured or even killed, but if this keeps up...this the situation is going to become increasingly grave.
People have to rely on advertising and paid services in order to keep the website and the property running. If every offending website would be blocked, it would be loss of advertising, possible closure of website operations and the property would be end up in default and facing possible foreclosure.
As I'm certainly trying to find ways how to keep the house that I live in running, deviantART is a business and a business that does not pay its expenses doesn't last long.
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Please consider signing my petition to preserve freedom of information: [link]
On July 1, Internet Service Providers will take matters into their own hands and do on their own what SOPA and PIPA failed to do, unless we stop them immediately.
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No thanks...but you seem to be spamming by cutting and pasting information over and over.
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SOPA and PIPA are dead.
He have won! Let us call January 20th "V-I day", for it is the day of our victory in saving the internet.
This way, politicians for generations to come will know that the internet should remain open, and that it's a bad idea to try and censor it.
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Please consider signing my petition to preserve freedom of information: [link]
On July 1, Internet Service Providers will take matters into their own hands and do on their own what SOPA and PIPA failed to do, unless we stop them immediately.
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If we have won then why are 17 internet media servers still defunct today ? Please explain ?
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Well it's better than having tens of thousands of servers (if not more) being taken down by SOPA and PIPA.
It's more of "What's better, $10,000 in damages or $10,000,000?" type scenario, it's bad but it can be a whole lot worse.
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That may be inaccurate. There may be thousands of forums that linked to the main servers, and they were unaltered. But to my knowledge there are only 25 or so of the actual file servers that carried the raw files themselves.
And 17 of the 25+ are shut down now. Do the math. For the overall internet, that is crippling, and yes, that DOES effect thousands of forums as their download links are no longer valid.
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Ugh, it's so true, and it drives me mad. I mean, f it didn't get passed, then why are all of those sites still down?
In fact, how did they have the right to take them down at all before the bill even got passed? I just don't understand that. If they already started doing it without the bill.
~Dash
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What is stronger than the law ?
Belief.
What is stronger than belief ?
Rumors.
What is stronger than rumors ?
Fear.
What is stronger than fear ?
Nothing.
Nothing is stronger than fear.
The other sites feared what would happen to them before the law actually took place.
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Truly? Well, if so, then yes, we shall celebrate.
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Well, yes. But it still got rid of SOPA and PIPA. Getting rid of either of those would've been a huge victory, when you think about it. But the fact that we got rid of both is what really made it a victory. That's not to say that ACTA is any better (if anything it's worse), but at least now EVERYBODY in the world can protest and not just people in the United States.
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Yes, yes.... But will it be enough? I guess we're gonna have to wait and see. I really don't want this to turn violent.
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do know what we need ?
a dead sopa
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Please consider signing my petition to preserve freedom of information: [link]
On July 1, Internet Service Providers will take matters into their own hands and do on their own what SOPA and PIPA failed to do, unless we stop them immediately.
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Wow ! This is terrible ! I was thinking about getting an Apple Media Pad sometime in the future so I can continue my novel work on the go and write new chapters in it, but NOT if Apple will lay claim to it ??
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i skimmed over but that is terrible. you'd think it would go the other way. "if you steal it and have no liceance then it's ours"
to me it's like if you use prismacolors, and they know it they get the rights to the art??.
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Spread this around -> [link]
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XE xe xe xa xxa xaxax xa xa ax ax ax ax axx a. I can die from laughter. This is gonna be fun when microsoft gonna tell all profesional artists they own company money. mwhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahhah
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Be real, they're after software pirates, not artists.
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