GREEN PIRATE

Notorious rival gang cartels known as MPAA and RIAA which experts believe got it’s start when entertainment producers and lawyers in Hollywood teamed up to find ways of exploiting copyright law to extract money from unwary citizens, have grown into out of control cartels with a sphere of influence reaching as high up as the President of the US and many other leaders of other nations.

These cartels have grown so powerful that they have powers “above the law” so to speak. They can have people incarcerated for publicly indexing hash strings or demand that ICE seizes domains, blocking global access to a website based on an accusation of copyright infringement without requiring an investigation or trial.
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Tech experts, human rights & free speech supporters, as well as the very internet users who will be subject to the ill effects of this legislature, are not being allowed to voice their opinions at the the congressional hearings surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this week.

Supporters of this bill have given congress over four times as much money as the opponents. Simply put, Hollywood money ($8,500,820) vs. the common person with common sense ($2,076,390) has successfully bought congress.

If you are sick of corrupt congressmen bending over for Hollywood’s golden member, you can go to Demand Progress and demand that the voice of the people is heard.

I was recently directed to this (thanks hyper_ch) very smart video explaining how such bills break the internet. Everyone should see this then go here to see what you can do about it.

H.R. 3261,  the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been introduced in an attempt to make streaming unlicensed content a felony and allow government to take down websites they consider to be involved in copyright infringement.. The Immigrations and Customs Office has already been doing this since around Thanksgiving of 2010 (while admins were no doubt enjoying a nice turkey dinner with their families).

Apparently though, taking away your right to free speech and a fair trial is making it hard for some members of the House Judiciary Committee to sleep at night. Their solution? “LET’S MAKE IT LEGAL TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREE SPEECH AND RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL!”

Now I’m sure none of these politicians are evil. Therefore I conclude that the following are mentally challenged members who think that legalizing oppression makes it morally appropriate: Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), ranking member John Conyers (D-MI), Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Howard Berman (D-CA).

http://lamarsmith.house.gov/Contact/

http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.OnlineContactForm

http://goodlatte.house.gov/contact/index.shtml

http://www.house.gov/berman/contact/index.shtml

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) for Taiwan claims to have developed a more effective model for reducing software piracy. Apparently these methods are so effective that other nations are expected to copy. Let’s hope they are not patented. O_O

Hung said Taiwan’s software piracy rate has decreased from 63 percent posted in 2002 to the present 37 percent, which is the third- lowest in Asia, and 23rd-lowest in the world.

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A petition has begun to stop what is, perhaps, the most ridiculous proposal since ACTA. Edit: My mistake. This is NOT a proposal! This has already been approved! ACT NOW!
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