[nycbug-talk] SOPA DOA

[Edward Capriolo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as
well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of
enabling or facilitating copyright infringement.

The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime,

It sounds like that is exactly what it is about, Protecting copyrights, or
are you saying it only protects "streaming" data?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jason Dixon <jason at dixongroup.net> wrote:

> This has NOTHING to do with SOPA.
>
> -J.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:57:34AM -0500, Edward Capriolo wrote:
> > I did not read into SOPA beyond a glance, so I am not saying I agree or
> > disagree with it. But I recently spent 9 months of my life writing a
> book.
> > I sold 400 copies up to Q3 this year.
> >
> > I checked some USENET stats for number of times my book was illegally
> > downloaded just a couple weeks after it came out. It was over 300,000. I
> > can find thousands of sites to illegally download it from.
> >
> > It would be nice if I could just get $1 ( about 0.025% the cover price)
> > from each person that illegally downloaded my book.
> >
> > Not saying that I am super brilliant or deserve to be rich, but what is
> > fair is fair. You download my book I should get SOMETHING for it.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM, mikel king <mikel.king at olivent.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Some good news for a change.
> > >
> > > Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy
> Legislation
> > > http://onforb.es/zcgtED
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> --
> Jason Dixon
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net/
>
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