[Situação: Suspenso por período indeterm.] A luta contra a SOPA (Desta SOPA não comerei!)

Última edição por Averróis em Sex Jan 20, 2012 6:23 pm, editado 5 vez(es)

Estão a par do que tem estado circular no congresso americano? Alguns de vocês estarão certamente, outros talvez nem por isso.
A SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) trata-se de uma proposta que, basicamente, visa conquistar uma legitimidade governamental para castrar recursos da internet com o objectivo de "impedir a pirataria". Em causa ficam diversos aspectos que a maioria de nós aprecia na internet, nomeadamente no aspecto da liberdade e do direito à privacidade dos utilizadores. Uma proposta semelhante é a PIPA (Protect IP Act), que também está neste momento em discussão.
Aqui ficam uns vídeos a explicar algumas particularidades destas propostas de lei:

Para uma explicação mais detalhada sobre a SOPA não deixem de consultar o artigo na Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act

Diversas grandes empresas de alojamento (e não só) estão contra a proposta. As que estavam a favor, como a GoDaddy, viram o seu negócio em risco quando os seus utilizadores ameaçaram - em massa - abandonar o serviço e transferirem-se para a concorrência (que tem estado inclusivamente com promoções "anti-SOPA", que oferecem condições e descontos a todos aqueles que quiserem abandonar os serviços que são a favor da proposta.)

Aqui fica uma notícia sobre a mudança de atitude da GoDaddy:

Citação :

Victory! Boycott forces GoDaddy to drop its support for SOPA

Under intense pressure from an Internet-wide boycott, domain registrar GoDaddy has given the open Internet an early Christmas present: it's dropping its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. The change was announced in a statement sent to Ars Technica:

Citação :: Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

GoDaddy's embarrassing climbdown took barely 24 hours. The boycott started on Thursday on reddit (an Ars sister site), but it quickly spread to the broader Internet. GoDaddy's competitors began offering special deals with promo codes like "SopaSucks" to entice GoDaddy switchers.

Initially, GoDaddy was defiant. In a statement emailed to Ars Technica Thursday evening, the company said "Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business."

But this reaction only enraged GoDaddy's customers. And evidently, the impact on their business began to be more obvious on Friday.

GoDaddy claims that during negotiations over SOPA, the company "fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill" by pushing to make the bill's provisions less onerous. But now the company has been forced to concede that the bill's authors did not adequately address the Internet community's concerns.

"In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet," the company's Friday statement reads. GoDaddy says it has removed past postings expressing support for the legislation from its website.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/victory-boycott-forces-godaddy-to-drop-its-support-for-sopa.ars

Citação :: European Parliament Joins Criticism of SOPA

The European Parliament has added its voice to those criticizing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States criticizing the use of domain name seizures by U.S. authorities on copyright 'infringing' websites.

On Friday the parliament adopted, by a large majority, a resolution that "stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names."

The move comes after more than 60 civil and human rights organizations wrote a letter to Congress on Tuesday calling for the rejection of SOPA. The letter argues that the act "is as unacceptable to the international community as it would be if a foreign country were to impose similar measures on the United States".

SOPA would enable the U.S. government to block access to websites internationally. This not only includes the .com domain, but also .net and .org, domain names which are used by millions of organizations outside the legal jurisdiction of the United States. But civil liberties groups say that the definitions in SOPA are so broad that it could be interpreted so that no online resource anywhere in the world would be outside U.S. jurisdiction.

"In recent years, the United States has been increasingly using the fact that much of the Internet's infrastructure and key businesses are under U.S. jurisdiction in order to impose sanctions on companies and individuals outside its jurisdiction. This started two years ago when the domain names of a Spanish company owned by a British businessman were removed by a U.S.-based registrar. The company was never accused of breaking Spanish law," said digital civil liberties group EDRi in a statement.

The European Parliament's resolution will now be forwarded to the European Commission, the leaders of the European Union member states and the U.S. Congress ahead of the E.U.-U.S. Summit on Nov 28.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244247/european_parliament_joins_criticism_of_sopa.html

Pirataria: E se de repente começassem a bloquear também os sites onde fotografias ou pinturas fossem expostas online sem permissão do autor? Por exemplo: em vários perfis do facebook, em blogs, em fóruns, em vídeos de "slideshow" do youtube, enfim, em todo o lado e mais algum. Afinal também são "propriedade intelectual", certo?
Ou será que também há discriminação entre propriedades intelectuais?
Ou será, por outro lado, que a indústria audiovisual investiu em mais e melhores lobbies?
Agravante: As fotografias e pinturas nem sempre têm o nome do autor bem visível e acessível. Já no caso dos filmes e músicas pirateados, essa informação é frequentemente visível e todo o crédito é dado ao artista.

E já agora:

Citação :: Conservatives lining up in opposition to SOPA

Views on copyright law have never broken down cleanly along ideological or partisan lines, but many of the key supporters for the Stop Online Piracy Act have come from the political right. The legislation is sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and it enjoys support from right-leaning, corporate-funded organizations like the Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Tax Reform.

But a growing number of right-leaning individuals and organizations have come out against SOPA. Last Wednesday, the Heritage Foundation, one of the nation's largest and most influential conservative think tanks, published an article by senior research fellow James Gattuso warning about the "unintended consequences" of SOPA. And on Thursday, he was joined in opposing SOPA by Erick Erickson, editor of the popular conservative blog RedState.

@ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/sopa-faces-growing-opposition-among-conservatives.ars

Mas ninguém fala disto praticamente! Neutral

Se bem que estas propostas aplicam-se mais ao EUA, no entanto, irão também ter implicações para os nossos lados também.

Urânia, o que mais tenho visto online é malta a falar disto.
Mesmo que seja aplicado apenas lá, devido à importância dos EUA, as consequências serão mundiais. E por cá também não faltam ideias giras.

Atenção que isto iria estabelecer uma plataforma que, em existindo, daria legitimidade internacional (não apenas às entidades sedeadas nos EUA) para anular a existência de websites (pelo menos no que toca à matéria de DNS).
Por alguma razão existem diversos países (e inclusivamente o próprio parlamento Europeu) a pronunciarem-se contra este tipo de propostas.
Não se esqueçam ainda que o que afecta a Internet, afecta o mundo todo. Estas medidas não são de repercussões locais, são globais.
Estamos a falar de algo que iria afectar os serviços de DNS.

Novidades: A coisa está negra para os proponentes da SOPA e da PIPA.

Citação :

Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

The public outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act seems to have gotten so loud that even members of Congress can hear it. On Thursday we covered the news that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was expressing second thoughts about SOPA's DNS provisions. He said he changed his mind after he "heard from a number of Vermonters" on the issue.

On Friday, several Republicans started backpedaling as well.

Spoiler:

Ler mais: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/under-voter-pressure-members-of-congress-backpedal-on-sopa.ars

Citação :: Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics

The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In an online statement released Saturday, three senior White House officials wrote that the administration "will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."

The statement was made in response to a petition on the White House's "we the people" site asking the president to veto SOPA if it reached his desk. The officials—IP enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel, CTO Aneesh Chopra, and cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt—did not commit the president to vetoing SOPA. However, they laid out criteria for an anti-piracy bill that seems to clearly rule out SOPA and the Senate's Protect IP Act in their current form.

The White House seems most concerned with DNS-blocking, which is becoming the red-headed stepchild of SOPA provisions.

"Proposed laws must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet through manipulation of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of Internet security," the statement says. "Our analysis of the DNS filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cybersecurity and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online."

They said the White House cannot support legislation that "drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk." Both PIPA and SOPA would do exactly that.

Ler mais: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/obama-administration-joins-the-ranks-of-sopa-skeptics.ars

Volto a relembrar para os mais desatentos. Não se admirem quando derem por uma inoperabilidade de alguns serviços da internet: está previsto um blackout daqui a alguns dias.

Citação :: Vamos ficar 24 horas sem Google e Facebook

A nova regra contra os chamados “pirataria” da propriedade intelectual nos EUA e conhecida como SOPA (Stop Lei Pirataria Online) tem aquecido os espíritos das grandes empresas ligadas ao mundo da Internet, de tal forma que estão a promover um ‘blackout’, já encabeçado pela Wikipedia.
Amazon, Google, eBay, AOL e Facebook terão chegado a um consenso para desligar os seus servidores dia 23 de Janeiro em protesto contra esta lei anti-pirataria da Câmara dos Representantes dos Estados Unidos. Estaremos preparados para viver 24 horas sem estes serviços?

Os gigantes como Amazon, Google, eBay, AOL e Facebook poderiam-se juntar numa operação sem precedentes para alertar os utilizadores da Internet das reais consequências da SOPA, seria uma “opção nuclear de protesto”, conforme refere a ExtremeTech.
Estes regulamentos, ainda em projecto de lei, destinam-se a bloquear o acesso a qualquer site que infringe direitos de autor e os serviços que alojam esses sites online.
Embora não exista uma data específica para este ‘apagão’ que, hipoteticamente, afectaria milhões de utilizadores ao redor do mundo, de acordo com algumas fontes o dia 23 seria uma probabilidade, tendo em conta que um dia mais tarde, dia 24 de Janeiro, o Congresso Norte Americano irá debater esta controversa lei.
As empresas que se poderiam juntar a estes protestos são: AOL, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, Foursquare, Google, IAC, LinkedIn, Mozilla, OpenDNS, PayPal, Twitter, Wikimedia Foundation, Yahoo! e Zynga.

Estaria o mundo preparado para viver sem estas empresas?

http://pplware.sapo.pt/informacao/vamos-ficar-24-horas-sem-google-e-facebook/

Última edição por Ceinwyn em Seg Jan 16, 2012 11:27 pm, editado 1 vez(es)

Retirado daqui: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114045-the-internet-wins-sopa-has-been-shelved-but-we-must-remain-vigilant

Citação :: The internet wins: SOPA has been shelved, but we must remain vigilant

Over the weekend, the White House released a strongly-worded opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The President has threatened to veto any legislation that “reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet,” which includes SOPA and PIPA. Just hours after this, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa said that SOPA had now been shelved indefinitely by the House of Representatives. It will not be voted on when the 112th Congress reconvenes for its 2012 session. The internet has won.

Only… it’s not quite that simple. PIPA might still be passed by the Senate (though it’s very unlikely). More importantly, though, the House of Representatives hasn’t said that SOPA is dead; merely that it’s on hold until a “consensus” can be reached. This probably means that SOPA itself is dead, but in its stead Congress will now try to pass a similar law with a different name when the internet isn’t looking.

It’s impossible to ignore the timing of the SOPA shelving, too, just three days before huge sites like Reddit and Major League Gaming intended to stage a blackout in protest of the act. Will Reddit still go dark for 12 hours? Is it worth Reddit losing thousands of dollars to educate users on the perils of SOPA, when the word “SOPA” will never again be mentioned by Congress? In this regard, it’s a genius move by Lamar Smith & Co. It was obvious that SOPA had too much negative sentiment attached to it — and so the House simply declaws the anti-SOPA protesters and bides its time until lawmaking conditions are slightly less inclement. Voters have a famously short memory when it comes to these kinds of things — and who knows, maybe Congress will even wait to see if Mitt Romney can unseat Obama in the next election.

The main thing now, then, is to remain vigilant. The internet has won this round, but it’s guaranteed that Congress will try to pass similar laws in the future. With Senator Harry Reid receiving more than $3.5 million and Representative Eric Cantor receiving $668,000 from industry lobbies that are opposed to piracy, they’re virtually compelled to try again. We mustn’t rest on our laurels. We must be ready to combat doppelganger laws with the exact same ferocity that we leveled upon the now-dead SOPA.

Good

Eu não cantaria já "vitória", ó Averróis.

Kraft durch Freude escreveu:: Eu não cantaria já "vitória", ó Averróis.

True. Contudo a situação para uma aprovação da SOPA (e, de certa forma, da PIPA) parece-me estar seriamente comprometida depois de todos estes acontecimentos e argumentos que foram levantados e reunidos sobre os inconvenientes destas propostas.
A meu ver, a SOPA ou a PIPA, para serem aprovadas, teriam de ser bem mais suaves, explícitas e com bem menos capacidade interventiva nos mecanismos da internet (nos DNSs, neste caso em particular). De outra forma parece-me difícil que sigam em frente sem mais nem menos.
Neste momento posso dizer que não me surpreendia nada que não as passassem.
Contudo, obviamente que os braços não devem ser baixados e as pessoas precisam de saber o que alguns estão a tentar fazer... No antro da dita "democracia mais exemplar do mundo", onde as pessoas - e o mundo - assistem passivamente às negociações realizadas pela elite. What a Face

Já que não é por intervenção directa (decorrente de uma consulta púbica), é por intervenção indirecta, por demonstrações de desagrado em relação a estas políticas.
Os pontos fracos são as grandes empresas. Se perdem os apoios de grandes empresas, perdem os pilares onde estão ancorados.

Já agora, ainda no mundo dos piratas e corsários:

Citação :: The Pirate Bay Launches Promo Platform For Artists

Hollywood and the major music labels frequently describe The Pirate Bay as a piracy haven that ruins their businesses. On the other side, however, there are many independent artists who would like nothing more than to be featured prominently on the world’s largest torrent site. For the latter group The Pirate Bay team have just released a new platform where artists can have their content promoted on the site’s homepage, free of charge.

For many independent artists obscurity is a bigger problem than piracy, but it’s a problem that The Pirate Bay hopes to solve.

(...)

On the other hand, many artists are already releasing their work voluntarily on The Pirate Bay, and not just basement bands either. To promote their new single, Radiohead turned to The Pirate Bay in 2009, and Nine Inch Nails have made pretty much all their music available on the torrent site.

Best selling author Paulo Coelho is another dedicated fan of The Pirate Bay, sharing his books on there every time his publisher looks away. “I am openly supporting their site,” Coelho told TorrentFreak when the site’s founders were defending themselves in a Swedish court.

@ http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-launches-promo-platform-for-artists-120116/

Entretanto já há sugestões para as acções a tomar caso uma SOPA ou PIPA fossem aprovadas. Há quem sarcasticamente até diga que prefere assim:

Citação :: Bring on SOPA I say.

Sooner we get a decentralised DNS the better. Let the US cut themselves off, it'll be no loss in long run.

Para quem não percebe: Basicamente o tipo está a dizer que até era melhor que uma SOPA fosse em frente. Assim era da maneira que tomavam-se medidas para descentralizar os serviços de resolução dos nomes de domínios da Internet (os serviços que permitem aceder aos sites ao introduzir o endereço) e estes começavam a ser geridos por entidades independentes dos interesses americanos. Ou seja, se isto acontecesse desta forma, a SOPA seria, muito provavelmente, uma ferida auto-infligida nos Americanos, se "toda a gente" começasse a afastar-se do poder que os americanos detêm nesse aspecto. Ficavam a brincar sozinhos à censura de endereços enquanto os outros países continuavam a poder aceder livremente.

Uma leitura interessante e relevante:

Citação :: The Pirate Bay itself is amazed by the unprecedented power the entertainment industry has in Washington.

“It’s crazy what politicians will do in the name of copyright! They are either totally paid off, stupid or copyright holders. Or all of them – that’s not as uncommon as you might think. The worst part is that it’s so obvious that pretty much everyone in and outside the US, including major corporations, are against this bill,” the Pirate Bay insider said.

“The minority will now decide to get to control the majority, for reasons that only help the minority and not society as a whole. It’s disgusting. If the law was discussed in Iran or China, we might understand it – and criticize it just as much. But this… come on!”

The Pirate Bay urges the International community to take a clear stand in the issue, preventing the US from taking control of the Internet. The European Parliament set the first step in this direction recently, by condemning domain name seizures, but there is still a long way to go according to The Pirate Bay.

“It’s obvious that the US has too much influence on the internet and the world’s politics. SOPA/PIPA is one of many newer laws that is passed in the US but really is in effect outside of their borders. The UN and other bodies should actually fight back and say that this is not OK, ” the insider said.

“The internet is a global infrastructure and can’t be run in one single country. Besides fighting SOPA, we must also take away the possibility for a single country to rule over the global infrastructure.”

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-pipasopa-wont-stop-us120117/

E realmente é verdade. Parece que fazem mais para proteger a lenga-lenga do copyright do que para proteger crianças de pedófilos e de outros perigos reais... Tal como o perigo das pessoas ficarem com o seu direito à liberdade de expressão comprometido, por exemplo! *wink, wink*

Protesto da Wikipedia:

Citação :

[Situação: Suspenso por período indeterm.] A luta contra a SOPA (Desta SOPA não comerei!) Wikipedia_sopa_2_small

Wikipedia confirma que vai desligar serviços por 24 horas

O aviso estava lançado e os rumores davam como certo que certos sites iriam parar por 24 horas para protestar contra a lei contra os chamados “pirataria” da propriedade intelectual nos EUA e conhecida como SOPA (Stop Lei Pirataria Online).
Os rumores davam como certos que no próximo dia 23 de Janeiro muitos serviços e sites da Internet iriam desligar os seus servidores para protestarem contra essa lei, mas a não havia certeza se essa acção seria ou nao levada a cabo. A Wikipedia levou a ideia mais longe e antecipou para a próxima quarta feira o seu apagão.

Esta decisão foi apresentada pelo fundador da Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, na sua conta do Twitter. A mensagem onde Jimmy Wales apresentou o corte previsto para o serviço foi dada de uma forma quase cómica.
Essa mensagem alertava todos para a necessidade de recolherem toda a informação de que necessitam com urgência pois a Wikipedia ia iniciar o seu protesto contra a SOPA:

Citação :: Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!

Segundo Jimmy Wales explicou também pela sua conta do Twitter, este corte afectará apenas a versão inglesa da Wikipedia.
O corte está planeado para ter inicio na madrugada da próxima quarta feira, pelas 05 horas, e terminará na quinta pela mesma hora.
Vão ser 24 horas em que os Internautas se vão ver privados de uma das principais fontes de informação que está na Internet.
Jimmy Wales esteve bastante activo no Twitter a esclarecer todos os utilizadores sobre as motivações e a forma como este corte irá ser feito, mas acabou por expressar a sua opinião de forma muito efusiva.

Citação :: Espero que a Wikipedia derreta os sistemas telefónicos em Washington na quarta-feira. Digam a toda a gente que conhecerem!

Para além da Wikipedia espera-se que outros serviços, tal como o Reddit acompanhem este apagão e mostrem às autoridades norte americanas que estão contra a SOPA e tudo o que ela representa.
Vejamos até que ponto este corte nos vai afectar. Apesar de ser apenas na versão inglesa, existem ainda muitos conteúdos que estão exclusivamente em inglês e como tal deverão estar inacessíveis.
Depois da Wikipedia vejamos que outras grandes empresas vão ter a coragem de exprimir o seu descontentamento desta forma e com esta veemência!

>>> PRESS RELEASE DA WIKIPEDIA <<<

Spoiler:

@ http://pplware.sapo.pt/informacao/wikipedia-confirma-que-vai-desligar-servicos-por-24-horas/

Nice!

Estas propostas do congresso americano são um ultraje e um verdadeiro atentado à liberdade intelectual. Espero que isto nunca seja aprovado.

USA = Tiranos Romanos do séc. XXI

Citação :: SOPA Is Baaaack!

That didn’t take long.

A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached.

Although the announcement was rather vague, some news sites and blogs declared SOPA dead, or “shelved,” or erased from history.

Wishful thinking, because today SOPA is back in full force.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith just announced that the SOPA markup is expected to continue next month.

“To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy,” Chairman Smith said.

“Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February.

“I am committed to continuing to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that saves American jobs and protects intellectual property.”

@ http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-is-baaack-120117/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Citação :

SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow's "Internet blackout" in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a "gimmick," a "stunt," "hyperbole," "a dangerous and troubling development," an "irresponsible response," and an "abuse of power."

Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like Scribd and Google will also protest. In response, MPAA chief Chris Dodd wheeled out the big guns and started firing the rhetoric machine-gun style. His statement feels unusually angry for the normally unruffled trade group, but the MPAA has long asserted that Google simply wants to profit from piratical ad money.

Citação :: Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together, some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging.

It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this “blackout” to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy.

As for SOPA, it's hardly dead—as some news outlets claimed this weekend. While House Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has expressed reservations about bringing the bill to a vote without "consensus," House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) is moving ahead with plans to mark up SOPA and move it out of committee. The most controversial bit, DNS blocking of "rogue" sites, will be removed from the bill.

"We will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy," he said in an announcement today. "Markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February."

Note: reddit shares a parent company with Ars Technica.

@ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars

Citação :: SOPA Resistance Day begins at Ars

Today is SOPA Resistance Day at Ars. Sites across the 'Net, from reddit to the Internet Archive, from Wikipedia to Google, are protesting the excesses of the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA remains a flawed bill that treats piracy as an existential threat to the US economy and to a sacred class of rightsholders—and in doing so loses all perspective on appropriate remedies. The discussion is absolutely unbalanced.

Many sites have chosen to go dark (i.e., offline) today, a stance we respect—but it's not the right path for us. Ars Technica has, for 14 years, tried to be an information resource, and the most appropriate response from Ars is to provide even more information on the legislation, how you can fight it, and what's really at stake.

Our normal publishing schedule has been frozen in carbonite. For a limited time, we're turning our attention to SOPA and its Senate cousin, the PROTECT IP Act. What remains in each bill after the managers' amendments and the removal of DNS blocking? What would we like to see in a vastly improved SOPA 2.0? Is there a way forward?

Most importantly, what can you do to make your voice heard? Writing a boring note to your Senator won't get the job done. So, we're going to show you our tips on really ruffling feathers en masse. Some people are already celebrating the death of SOPA, but we all know this is far, far from over.

We'll be covering all these stories and more throughout the day, along with documenting the protests and the responses to them. Come back in the morning for the first installment of our Fighting Back Guide.

A few words of sanity

Piracy is an emotional issue, but it's important to note what it is not: a war between the "creators" and the "technologists." Ars Technica lives or dies by our content and its copyright. So does publisher Tim O'Reilly. So does musician Peter Gabriel. Yet all of us oppose SOPA. It's time for supporters of SOPA and SOPA-like legislation to drop the conveniently facile caricatures they have of their opponents. Millions of us believe in intellectual property as a fair concept that can have an important place in our society. And for a subset of us, it's our intellectual property that's at risk, anyway.

There's room to build a reasonable consensus for dealing with the "worst of the worst" online. But that means going back to the drawing board and bringing the tech community and Internet users to the table before legislation is drafted. Creating a sudden "emergency" around the issue and using only the perspective of the biggest rightsholders as a starting point is no way to legislate on key Internet issues—and band-aid patches to such a flawed approach aren't going to fix that.

SOPA needs to be stopped—and then we can start the hyperbole-free conversation that the content industries and the White House both say they want.

We challenge the White House, the Congress, and all supporters of SOPA: engage with us and with the Internet community on assessing the real threat of piracy and the appropriate response to it. This isn't a PR stunt. Ars Technica has the longest track record online of taking these matters seriously and listening to both sides. We can save you a lot of time by pointing out the areas in which your failure is all but assured—and point the way forward on areas where we can find common ground. We'll have more later today on ways to move forward with a strategy that isn't dead before you think of it. Meanwhile, the smartest, most tech savvy people on the Internet will be here, waiting for your next move.

@ http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2012/01/sopa-resistance-day-begins-at-ars.ars

Para além da evidente falta de originalidade, a repetição de receitas até à exaustão, aqui está mais uma boa razão para boicotar a merda que vem de Hollywood - E sim, isso inclui deixar de consumir coisas pirateadas vindas de lá.
Lembrem-se que estão a apoiar a corja que depois está por detrás deste tipo de lobbys que são a espinha dorsal de propostas como a SOPA / PIPA.
Apostem antes em filmes Europeus, Asiáticos, etc... Há imensas obras interessantes que são de longe melhores que a típica mediocridade hollywoodesca.
Desintoxiquem-se de Hollywood, antes que Hollywood dê cabo de nós. É a minha recomendação pessoal. Deixem de alimentar a máquina que produz "estrelas" que, além de serem muitas vezes péssimos role models, demasiado idolatrados pela população, vivem à grande em luxuosas mansões em Beverly Hills, com vários carros de luxo, a ganhar mais num ano do que aquilo que muita gente ganha numa vida, que depois ainda têm a ousadia de se queixarem e acharem-se no direito de nos quererem roubar os direitos fundamentais da Internet. Pessoalmente quero é que eles se f%!#*. Do que depender voluntariamente de mim, não levam nem um tostão.

Citação :: Hollywood fights Internet protests with... TV ad, billboard, radio spot

Creative America is fighting back. The group, which represents NBC Universal, Viacom, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Disney, and others in the TV and movie business, launched a new TV commercial today supporting SOPA and PIPA. A national print and radio campaign will follow.

But the highlight is a black animated banner ad that reads "What to do during an Internet blackout; it suggests reading books, listening to music, or watching a movie. The banner will be shown "on a huge billboard in New York's Times Square throughout the day on January 18th as an answer to those opponents of the bills who are blacking out their websites," writes Creative America.

Ler mais: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/hollywood-fights-internet-protest-with-tv-ad-billboard.ars

Claro..são essas empresas que estão interessadas na SOPA/PIPA. Enfim, mais uma razão para boicotar os produtos Sony.

Vídeo do Democracy Now:

~ Jimmy Wales (da Wikipedia) contra Sandra Aistars (da Copyright Alliance) ~

[Situação: Suspenso por período indeterm.] A luta contra a SOPA (Desta SOPA não comerei!) 3jimmywalessopasandraai

[Situação: Suspenso por período indeterm.] A luta contra a SOPA (Desta SOPA não comerei!) 3jimmywalessopasandraai

@ http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/19/sopa_anti_piracy_or_censorship_wikipedias

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"do they expect us to go to the library...???? Like a... common masturbator!?!" Laughing

:morri:

Haha, muito bom Urânia. Laughing

btw:

Citação :: Father of the Web backed SOPA protests

The father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has hit out at US government plans to censor the internet. Sir Tim said that the US plans were undemocratic and violate human rights.

As major websites including Wikipedia blacked out in protest overnight, the web's creator, Sir Tim-Berners Lee, urged people to let their feelings be known to block it before it is enacted.

"It affects all the stuff on the internet working and something which would affect what you want to connect to, where you want to connect to," Sir Tim said.

He said that if Internet users were in American they should call somebody or send an email to protest against these (censorship) bills because they have not been put together to respect human rights as is appropriate in a democratic country.

Sir Tim's call to arms was made at IBM's annual Lotusphere conference, held in the southern, state of Florida. It seems that yesterday's protest seems to have worked and that Senators and Politicians are fleeing from being seen as supporting the new laws.

More here.

Fonte: http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25631-father-of-the-web-backed-sopa-protests

Citação :: SOPA protest by the numbers: 162M pageviews, 7 million signatures

Tens of millions of Americans, and millions more overseas, had their normal Internet routine disrupted Wednesday as some of the Web's most popular sites, including Google, Wikipedia, and Craigslist, staged protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its companion PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The organizations that staged these protests are beginning to release hard numbers on the response, and they are staggering.

The Wikimedia Foundation says it reached 162 million people with Wikipedia's 24-hour English-language protest of the antipiracy bills. Of those, more than 8 million readers in the United States took the opportunity to look up contact information for their members of Congress through the site. Presumably, that generated tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of calls to congressional offices.

"The Wikipedia blackout is over and the public has spoken," said Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director. "You shut down the Congressional switchboards, and you melted their servers. Your voice was loud and strong."

Google did not black out its entire site as Wikipedia did, but it still generated at least 13 million page views to its anti-SOPA page and got 7 million people to sign its petition.

Ler o resto: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-protest-by-the-numbers-162m-pageviews-7-million-signatures.ars

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