S.978: The end of Let's Plays?

Hm... Do those fifty major players care more for human rights than money? No? Then we still have a tie.

Maybe if some one at GDC said something.

Well, according to an email I got from DemandProgress today, the opposition is apparently winning:

Emphasis theirs.

edited 12th Jul '11 11:07:56 PM by RocketDude

Wow. I'm surprised.

Also, to everyone saying that the voters will turn Congress out over this: no, they won't. Internet regulation is generally bipartisan; if a Democratic Senator votes yea on this bill, anyone who might object to that knows that the Republican alternative would have voted the same way.

Of course it is. Both sides want power, and control of information is power (or at least eliminates a threat to power).

edited 13th Jul '11 1:46:33 AM by deuxhero

Both sides risk the power they currently have when they push for more.

edited 13th Jul '11 2:33:19 AM by Vyctorian

I have a good idea for a commercial to oppose the bill. Remember that Anti-Piracy commercial where the dude is selling dvds on the streets and he tells people that if they buy them, random boom mike operator will lose her job?

Well, here's the scenario I have: A guy has a ten-year-old girl on the street and two people go to them and ask what is going on. The guy says that she's been caught doing the harsh crime of publicly preforming karaoke 10 times. He offers the two a choice, they can report the crime to the local authority and send a little girl to jail for 20 years, or not report this and let her go scot-free. One person decides not to go and tell the police, but the other does. Cops come and arrest the girl, who cries for her mom. The guy looks at this and tells the person who called the cops that he has no soul.

How's that for a anti-anti-piracy commercial?

Good idea, but I doubt the mainstream media would want to encourage such opposition.

It doesn't sound like an expensive skit. You could always Youtube it and hope it went viral.

I'm envisioning a cute little Asian girl in pigtails with a pink backpack.

edited 13th Jul '11 8:36:00 AM by Karkadinn

Indeed, a good chunk of Hollywood is in favor of this bill, it seems.

On a related note, I've been hearing loobying ads for this bill's co-conspirator, S.968 (PROTECT-IP Act), and I have to wonder what the real meaning of this is. Screaming about piracy and jobs and all that is one thing, but I get the feeling the ulterior motive is that You Tube embarrassed the industry greatly and led to horrors such as *gasp* Netflix streaming. :P

Also, the ads are funded by the US Chamber of Commerce, which is actually a right-wing front group funded by large industrial corporations. Usually they defend people like GE and Walmart; I have no idea why they'd be sticking up for Hollywood.

edited 13th Jul '11 8:38:53 AM by lee4hmz

I can't help but feel that these companies should adapt to the growth of technology, not monopolize it. Why can't they shift their market focus on online distribution of their content?

I've also been thinking that they can have their ads show up on videos relevant to their products. That way they're benefiting from the videos.

The main turnoff to Democrats I (and my father before me) have had has always been that they're in bed with Hollywood and pursue ridiculous anti-piracy legislation. Of course, Republicans don't fight them on it. Still good to know that at least in this case, it's a Republican think tank destroying the internet.

^Well, Hollywood is Big Business, and Republicans seem to love Big Business, so any perceived threat to it seems to get support from that side.

Unless it involves art or things that upset the Moral Guardians. Then again, that's probably two separate groups.

Okay, for those of you who used Demand Progress to protest the PROTECT IP Act, the US Chamber of Commerce is trying to push for the bill to be signed (apparently, Demand Progress managed to raise enough noise about the issue). DP is apparently asking for donations.

No word on S.978 at the moment.

edited 14th Jul '11 10:28:05 PM by RocketDude

Bump, but DemandProgress put together a mashup of videos explaining the bill so that there's only one to explain the bill:

edited 1st Aug '11 11:11:11 AM by RocketDude

The video doesn't work.

Should work now.

Glad DPS gaming got featured in that video, his video is what helped me understand this issue better.

Actually, the first video about it I saw was the one by X. X did link to the DSP video, though.

Also, I know this isn't that related, but since I can't find a thread for the PROTECT IP Bill and I don't want to be the one to start it, I'll just link DemandProgress' mashup video explaining it:

edited 3rd Aug '11 9:39:34 PM by RocketDude

Ya, that bill needs to be Killed with fire, even more so then bill S.987.

Not suggesting anything extremist,I'm just saying that bill needs to be stopped.

edited 3rd Aug '11 11:21:27 PM by Vyctorian