Rose said the MPA’s requested law would be similar to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was shelved after major protests over a decade ago.
SOPA/PIPA. Now there are some acronyms i haven’t heard in a long time.
dusts off hat
Whelp back in the saddle folks. Let’s stop this bullshit.
Piracy isn’t as big now. And people seem dumber so don’t expect the same protests.
I demand:
- Studios have exclusive rights to their respective works for 2 years, after which time they are required to license it to their competitors for “at cost” fees, similar to pole easements for cable/electric companies.
- Public Domain is reverted to 25 years after publishing
- Fan Fiction is added as a “free use” exception
If we had better politicians, these threats from the MPAA would amount to just whining.
Who the fuck even goes to a website to pirate anything these days? Go ahead and ban the entire www it will do nothing to stop piracy and only further ruin the internet.
Make it so i can easily, affordably, reliably watch your content and it will not need to be pirated. No? Yoho.
Thus guy looks like a real Satan in a suite
The internet routes around your blockade! long live the Pirates! Liber8! Pirate bay FTW!!
Or…hear me out…stop streaming service enshittification.
But think of all the potential short term profits!
Think of the shareholders!
These sorts of laws always make me chuckle as it really underscores how little the government knows about tech.
I suppose that once you have laws that allow blocking one type of site then other sites will be pretty easy to be added. A precedent sort of thing. Done once then others will follow.
Pretty amazing that piracy is such a hot topic such that freedoms can be curtailed but everyone’s right to an AR15 must be protected.
