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If everyone thinks that SOPA and PIPA are NOT an attempt of the US Government trying to control the flow of free information, then have I got a deal on some good beachfront property...
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i'm just curious, has anyone heard or seen a news story on SOPA from the mainstream press? i haven't.
like i said earlier: corporate censorship>government censorship. SOPA is lock-step in line with the beliefs of the networks and sponsors so why would they report on it? the government isn't blocking the news at all, the media is. mainstream media is utterly vapid mind-rot. i wouldn't lose sleep if nbc, cbs or warner were pirated into bankruptcy. |
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I'm starting to wonder if somewhere in the underworld, there's a goofy little man with a toothbrush mustache saying, "So what if they won the war, they've just proved me partially right." "A lie told enough times becomes the truth." Last edited by teh603; 01-11-2012 at 10:25 PM. |
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Google: sopa site:.nytimes.com and sopa site:.washingtonpost.com and sopa site:.latimes.com and sopa site:.reuters.com Quote:
sopa site:.cbsnews.com and sopa site:.abcnews.com and sopa site:.msnbc.msn.com |
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For example, Erle Stanley Gardner copyrighted 80 Perry Mason novels. Only 20 are currently in print. I don't think that the other sixty are "available to the public". |
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And a lot more works that are out of copyright are not available to you.
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If you actually do believe that restricting the free flow of information is the purpose of SOPA and PIPA then we know you couldn't possibly possess any good beach front property...
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Yes, they are. You can go to a copyright library, such as the Library of Congress, and read them there. A copyright library has, by law, to be supplied with a copy of every copyrighted item published in that country.
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True, but I don't think there is a requirement (at least in the UK) that the copyright library retain a copy. Thus it is possible that there are copies that can be accessed.
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EDIT: A little research seems to indicate that the British Library does keep everything, but the Library of Congress is "selective about which works it retains", but still adds about 3 million books a year to its collection.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...n-at-ces-2012/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...5rP_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...rrP_story.html http://www.foxbusiness.com/technolog...eir-open-bill/ http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/tech/w...iref=allsearch http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technolo...et-censorship/ Quote:
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If declining numbers of CD's and movie tickets purchased aren't due to piracy, then they are probably due to content company leaders being beaten in the marketplace fair and square. And you know they don't believe that. So thinking the worst of the content companies should make you MORE certain they are motivated by a sincere belief in piracy losses. By the way, I myself sincerely believe that there are fewer good, fulfilling entertainment industry jobs because of piracy. I just don't know how many fewer. |
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