SOPA for Photographers

this opinion piece isn’t specific to photographers, but a good overview on the concerns from Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman at the MIT Media Lab:

“Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA”

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/2012115121928594335.html

Joichi “Joi” Ito is an entrepreneur with a focus on internet and technology companies. He is the Chairman of the Creative Commons and Director at the MIT Media Lab.

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He also co-founded international blogging community Global Voices.

BignoseTW, I think that in your statement you are mixing problem, with solution.
Piracy is a problem.
SOPA (and PIPA) are proposed solutions that are not designed according to the internet culture and its benefits. Not all solutions are good for a problem!
The link that teru proposes, is very interesting! thanks!

Clay Shirky on SOPA and PIPA.

Not only are not all solutions good for a problem, as Gabriela states, but not all intended solutions are really solutions. As mentioned in the article that Teru linked:
“Internet experts have observed that, beyond being dangerous to innovation, harmful to speech and potentially unconstitutional, SOPA and PIPA are unlikely to work. Countries that block access to prohibited websites by altering the domain name system – as Vietnam does in blocking access to Facebook – find that millions of users are able to circumvent this form of censorship.”

Techcrunch article, with links to Google’s anti-SOPA petition, which generated 4.5 million signatures in a single day.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/18/google-collected-4-5-million-anti-sopa-signatures-today/

ps. I think Bignose was being facetious.

OK, Bignose, own up to it! Are you indeed facetious? I have also heard that you are bilingual and multifaceted. The truth please!

I am almost always facetious. (He says, facetiously)

Tobie