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BLaCK OuT 2012...
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Professor Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School:
“As we’ve seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not to heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.”
“Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.”
“In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.”
“If the internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.”
“So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don’t even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.”
WB7: If you are looking for cogent reading on the subject of the role of intellectual property rights in a “wired democracy”, I recommend Professor Lessig’s writings. They can can be obtained readily online.
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I figure I should relate and experience I had with scribed.
I opened an account with them when they were practicaly unknown and began sharing my written content along with numerous articles and written materials that I thought were interesting. The account got thousands of page hits. Whenever they requested that I remove something for copyright reasons, I had no no problem. I did not monetize the activity in any way.
One day I received a notice that they closed my account apparently because I republished a Morgan Stanley research report wrtitten by an intern on the subject of what kids do on the internet.
Of course there was no right of appeal. Just some robotic server response.
This kind of thing happens all the time.
The reason why this happens is these sites cannot risk shutdown as a result of not adequately policing user content. They do not have the resouce to review everything that gets posted. Talk about a "chilling effect."
This is one of the reasons I started posting images on Flickr as well as my Blog. Now I am working on other offshore hosting arrangements as well.
As much as artists would like to argue that the "fair use" doctrine and "parody exception" should apply to their works, the case law is poorly developed and no web company wants to spend a fortune litigating copyright claims defending editorial parody.
I should remind everyone that Banzai7 does not sell parody of IP protected images, such as mashed movie images for example. Even if we wanted to zazzle would never allow it.
This is not just about pirating movies online. This is about free speech and cultural enrichment as well.
The people who run the film and music entertainment industry are intellectually lazy statists.
Steve Jobs understood it very well. They have unrealistic expectations about protecting legacy revenue streams.
I love TCM, the classic movie channel. This fall the host Robert Osborne took a sabatical, long vacation, and when he came back I noticed that the films they were running were almsot all pre 1950. Now normally they run a lot of those, but now they are running the second tier stuff from that era. I wonder if they ran into some copyright problems, either they didn't want to pay for the newer material, or they couldn't get persmission. TCM runs no outside advertising. Not sure how the rent and the permission process goes for rerunning old films, if anyone knows. One wonders if something was already happening last fall, and either the stations financial situation or the copyright situation has caused them to alter programming content. I really love their show, one of the few reasons I keep my cable.
Ron Paul left the campaign trail to vote on the debt ceiling but also to introduce a bill to repeal part of the NDAA. Here is his full statement (ref. http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1941%3Astatement-introducing-repeal-of-sec-1021-of-national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2012&catid=16%3Aspeeches&Itemid=1)
Statement Introducing Repeal of Sec. 1021 of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201218 January 2012
Mr. Speaker: I rise today to introduce a very simple piece of legislation to repeal the infamous Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, quietly signed into law by the president on New Year’s Day.
Section 1021 essentially codifies into law the very dubious claim of presidential authority under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to indefinitely detain American citizens without access to legal representation or due process of law. Section 1021 provides for the possibility of the US military acting as a kind of police force on US soil, apprehending terror suspects – including Americans -- and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely. No right to attorney, no right to trial, no day in court.
This is precisely the kind of egregious distortion of justice that Americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas. A great man named Solzhenitsyn became the hero of so many of us when he exposed the Soviet Union’s extensive gulag system. Is this really the kind of United States we want to create in the name of fighting terrorism?
Some have argued that nothing in Section 1021 explicitly mandates holding Americans without trial, but it employs vague language radically expanding the detention authority to include anyone who has “substantially supported” certain terrorist groups or “associated forces.” No one has defined what those two terms mean. What is an “associated force”?
Sadly, too many of my colleagues are too willing to undermine our Constitution to support such outrageous legislation. One senator even said about American citizens picked up under this section of the NDAA, “When they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.'" Is this acceptable in someone one who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution?
Mr. Speaker, of course I recognize how critical it is that we identify and apprehend those who are suspected of plotting attacks against Americans. But why do we have so little faith in our justice system? Have we not tried in civilian court and won convictions of hundreds of individuals for terrorist or related activities? I fully support our continuing to do so, but let us not abandon what is so unique and special about our system of government in the process.
I hope my colleagues will join my effort to overturn the shameful Section 1021.
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Bravo!
Ain't no blackin out going on here.
Look at this Mitt Romney well researched video and imagine that we approach the NC vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnzBOkKAiE
I thought about that and concluded Zero hedge readers are the last people who need to be reminded of the issues at stake.
"...in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."
"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060...
WB7, I'd like to see a fine lady with certain body parts just blocked out in protest...
I thought about that. What really struck me is how all the past battles about content on the Internet related to online porn, which is now so abundant there is nothing that can be done by the censorship crowd.
This conflict has absolutely nothing to do with porn as far as I can determine.
Nevertheless... ;-)
Nice front page WB7.
I dare these chuckleheads to do this. Piracy will know no bounds when DNS system is subverted easily and effectively with the Namecoin approach or something similar (a bittorrent version of the DNS, copy for everyone interested).
As for the network, a wireless approach should be pretty simple to implement. The original intent of wireless was to abandon the wired backbone. And when the FCC comes around then we can meet the enemy face to face. I've got something to show them and you should too. These mindfucking trolls have gone too long without a stiff reminder of what a free society can muster.
Unfortunate that this area isn't jam packed with comments as it should be. Again...here is what the TPTB already use the Internet for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_eSwq1ewsU&feature=player_detailpage
destroying the artist(s) is simply "de riguer."
Quality first ;-)
Great reference. One of my favorite episodes.
They have to dignify the poor, their are so many of them now.
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"Are there no prisons ? And the Union workhouses, are they still in operation ?"
Shoot, I know I'm getting old...where does that line come form, it's on the tip of my tongue?
Banzai, these are great. As soon as I spoof a MAC and an IP, I'm sending them to Butch Napolitano.
Butch ;-)
Just saw the Max Keiser teaser where your art surpassed even you. The Blankfein/Geithner relationship hehehe
That was Max and Stacy's idea, which I executed with zest ;-)
Nice job WB7.
'Sacrilege flees offshore to Staten Island' -- LOL
Google has a built in poll and contact form today.
Wikipedia will direct you to all your representatives if you put in your Zip code.
I'm sending this to all of mine:
"Just say NO to S.O.P.A., P.I.P.A., and Internet censorship!
No "Fahrenheit 451" or Nazi book burnings in the U.S.A. please.
The N.D.A.A. was an affront to the Constitution and the liberties of every legal citizen of the U.S.A.
Thank You,
(name redacted here ;-)"
They may not listen, but they will hear my voice.
Thanks WB7
Also call your cable/satellite provider and tell them if SOPA passes you will cancel your subscription. Ditto for Netflix & Blockbuster. And call your cell phone company & let them know you will down grade to a no data plan.
Is that Bushwick Bill from the Ghetto Boys in the last picture?!
It may well be, but I have no ID ;-) I found it doing Nigeria 419 research.
Striking resemblance if it's not.
Brilliant, WB, some of your best ever. "Internet 451" Kudos! . . . and thanks.
That first page of the NYT is obviously a fake, I mean there is no Kardashian coverage.
it should say "all the lies which are unfit to print"
Or all the lies we feel like printing.
oops
http://www.truth-out.org/judy-miller-alert-new-york-times-lying-about-ir...
All the news that fits, we print.
American Jewry IS A Global Regime
Abusing East Jerusalem Children
IDF Preparing For Major New Gaza Attack
We went to war for Israel
report accuses Israel of water 'apartheid' in West Bank
New plan criminalizes Palestinian citizens of Israel
Racist Israeli Supreme Court Decisions
Court convicts 4 Israelis of heading international human trafficking ring
Survivor of Israeli Attack Reveals Secrets of 1967 High Seas Massacre
Value of Afghan opium up 133 percent in 2011
Real Target Is Iran Central BankDodd-Frank and now SOPA.
Declare Chris Dodd an enemy combatant.
There are very good reasons why Congress' approval rating is at record lows.
I think Weiner just junked my comment.
If only members of Congress would spend more time sexting with their staffers and random acquaintances, they wouldn't have as much time to vote on asinine and destructive legislation.
Fark.com has a funny SOPA page. They went white, though.
They must be white republican racists!
Has any group suggested that one way to send Hollywood a message of displeasure is to boycott the box offices for a week?
My wife and I have been boycotting them for over a year now. We were just tired of putting money in all their Socialist Liberal pockets.
BillyB, - How about for a month?
If the public cancelled all TV and boycotted Hollywood then we might have a chance. The public is too stupid to connect the dots. The elites use Hollywood and TV to program the zombie idiots. 24x7 HD brainwashing.
Freddie
"The elites use Hollywood and TV to program the zombie idiots."
The problem is you assume that those Zombie idiots would be more intelligent or better informed without Hollywood.
Dude, they are fucking idiots no matter what.
I'm thankful that the media does brainwash the stupid. It keeps the majority in line.
You should be happy that their is a vast pool of out there to fulfill a smart persons needs.
Amerika you've got talent!
I see the sycophants in Hollywood are at it again, another OSCAR nominated film about some British trash, this time Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. For some odd reason Hollywood is in love with everything British, starting with that Helen Mirren film about the queen? I am surprised the Falklands War hasn't been fully documented in glorified computer graphics, and insinuated into American history. Of course there is no film about Princess Di to my knowledge (she's probably referred to as the whore in those cloistered circles)
America has those disappearing empire blues, and emulating the British character must seem like some sort of salve to the American psyche. of course Hollywood is great at selling out the revolution, the thirties and the labor movement (all we got was Fred and Ginger, top hats and tails) and the 60's.
POTUS is going to Disneyworld this week, boycott that too.
POTUS lives in Disney World, along with Barney the Magic Frank, Harry the hohouse shill, the scary Nan from San Fran, and Anthony "check this out" Weiner, who is constantly running from Barney the Frank.
the grateful un...
I watch a lot of Brit tv and film. They tend to push boundaries and do much more original work than we do in the US.
Generally I consider anything from Hollywood to be formulaic shit.
Anyway, I was watching Borgen a Danish show run on BBC. A female character was being elected Denmarks first woman Prime Minister, and her husband jokes how he is really looking forward to a blowjob from the prime Minister.
Got me wondering how much head Maggie gave in her day?