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I fully agree

Thank you Robert for helping tell the internet nazis to shove it straight up their ass. There are some things the government needs to stay the hell out of and AW.org is one of them. I have done 4 loads of laundry (hot water, Tide, Bounce and 2 loads of dishes, Industrial Cascade/w Phosphates and Jet Dry) so the laundry and dishes never stopped for me.
Thanks again for all you do! Nick
 
Welcome back everyone.

If this nonsense passed I think we'd find ourselves already under prosecution. There are manual and brochure outtakes here which are of course, copyrighted. They have no commercial value to the owners so don't even fall under current civil copyright law, though the owners could still sue us and we'd have to spend $50,000 defending to PROVE they're not covered. The buyers of Heathkit manual copyrights from the 50s threatened to do exactly that and had the content deleted from online databases though they do not publish it and it represents no value to them whatsoever.

Not only that, but currently the copyright owner has to file and pursue the complaint at his expense. Under SOPA the TAXPAYERS have to file and pursue the complaint at THEIR expense ON BEHALF OF the corporations.

Pardon my Irish, but how much worse does bullshit have to stink?

I own a commercial copyright (song) that sells on every continent except Antarctica, with several unlicensed versions on youtube. I do NOT want it deleted. Gawdammit, I wrote it to entertain, not to sue people over. SOPA would force youtube to delete it out of fear.
 
I think it's more than just censorship. The United States government wants in the worst way to be able to control the Internet. Actually this SOPA thing started off in the Department of Defense. Someone, somewhere in Washington thinks the Internet is a security risk. They want control of it based on this idea.

Well too bad, the Internet belongs to no one entity anywhere. It's owned by the public, the individual creators of all the websites and viewers.

Actually SOPA & PIPA would have been just the beginning, a thing used to open the door and later if this thing passes more control type of bills would be passed until the U.S. governement is reasonably satisfied that "they" own the Internet.
But what good would it be then?
 
The SOPA and PIPA proposals---UTERLY STUPID and unneccerry!!Keep the GOV'T and HOLLYWOODS noses out of the internet and other things ,PLEASE.Now if "Hollywood" would make a BETTER product that people would want to use--this wouldn't be a problem.Glad you went down in protest-it was interesting that "Vacuumland" didn't go down in protest,too.
 
I swear, the "southholes" in Hollywood really get on my nerves. It's not like they won't make millions if someone uses a picture or a song on their website. They all have more money than they know what to do with anyway. And besides, they get their share of free crap anyway even thoughdthey have the money to buy it. And what if one were to use such materials for research? Would that be concidered piracy? Now I know copying it word for word would be, but honestly, there would still have to be many similarities to the original documentation anyway. People are just too damned greedy these days. Here the internet was supposed to be the information highway. Now they want to put limits on that. And here we pay out the butt every month to use the damn service! I'm really hating the way things are turning out.
 
It is ALL simply unamerican!

Ya know I am about as liberal as they come. I don't even see how a bill supporting CENSORSHIP would even get presented! I would expect to join hands with conservatives on this issue because I would think that this is one thing we could agree on as Americans. Censorship should not be part of the American way of life.

Have those balloon knots in Washington lost their minds? They really will sell us all out if they get the chance, won't they? Maybe it is time to dig out the pitchforks and torchs;oh, oops THAT WHAT THEY ARE AFRAID OF!

Don't think it has gone by un-noticed that most of the recent protests, poltical movements get started on the web and big sister don't like it one bit.

I am not really surprised by any of this because we are not really free like we used to be anyway. At least I don't feel free when I must submit to a urine test and background check just to get a job.
 
Thank you to Robert and all that participated

Though I did go through withdrawl; it was for a good cause. 

I sent notes to my representatives, and posted on my facebook.

 

Now the question remains for those of use here:  "Where were you when the lights went out?"

 

 

 

 
 
100% support for what was done.....

AW withdrawl was kicking in, but all worth it for a great cause....

glad to be back among friends.....missed you guys....

it's a great thing you do Robert!
 
Political propaganda advertisement on Television

There's a new add you all may have seen on TV. TELL CONGRESS TO STOP ONLINE PIRACY. It's paid for by Creative America Campaign Inc. Web address creativeamerica.org
It shows an American Flag made out of light bulbs inside a big light bulb. You hear clicks of a keyboard as the lights go out on the flag and then the big light bulb explodes. A narrator says, "American ideas. They shine through in a thousand new products, new software and movies, creating millions of new jobs. But now American creativity and innovation are under attack. Everyday foreign criminals use illegal web sites to steal American products; to steal our ideas (the big light bulb explodes) and put Americans out of work. It's time for a new idea. Tell congress to stop on line piracy."

The Creativeamerica logo with their web site name is on one side of the screen and U.S Chamber of Commerce is on the other side of the screen.

Where are all of these millions of new jobs? Aren't good ideas usually patented? You have to file for it with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office. And The U.S Chamber of Commerce, who is a sponsor of creativeamerica.org, isn't even an agency of the United States government. It's a LOBBYING GROUP! Go to Wikipedia and read about it.

When you go to creativeamerica.org and finally get past the first page it's called The Entertainment Community Against Content THEFT. For the most part they don't even put out anything worth watching anymore. Just stupid reality shows with idiots doing foolish things. The movies aren't much better. Just dull, boring crap. Rarely a new or creative idea. What do they need to have protected!

The more you stir this the more it stinks. I'm outraged.
 
As a society we've become so fragmented and insulated it is near impossible to rally any large group around a subject or ideal.  It's rare to find any common ground, anything a large or even small majority can agree on.   Big corporations use this very well to mobilize small bands of people to do their bidding, when in many cases it's against these very  peoples best interest.  You say or post "American Jobs" in a commercial or a web site and people seem to automatically go in lock step.  When it comes to a topic like the internet, while it may protect a few Hollywood jobs it could be devastating for the country and world as a whole.

 

It's clear to me that any politician that supported or had a hand in creating this monster is being spoon fed by big business and Hollywood media companies - those are the only entities that stand to gain by this crap.

 

 

Edit:  Good read...

http://the Real SOPA Battle: Innovators vs. Goliath
 
This is so true and funny I had a good laugh!  Best line -  "Don't cry - Disney owns the rights to that emotion!"

 

 

 

<h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span id="eow-title" title="Hitler reacts to SOPA." dir="ltr">Hitler reacts to SOPA</span></h1>

 
Cathy and I like to stay through the end credits at the movies so we won't miss any Easter eggs or "crazy credits". One disclaimer seems to always show up last: "Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia" or some other foreign location, which is ironic when the screenplay's setting is present-day USA. The very studios who cry about losses of American jobs and money to piracy are guilty of exporting thousands of American jobs and millions of American dollars every year by shooting outside the USA so they can avoid paying American crew and talent.

Hollywood
hypocrisy

Hmm. . . same number of letters. Coincidence? Not any more.
 
U.S. Programing moved to Canada

You're exactly right, Joe. Much of the programing we see either comes from Vancouver or Toronto. And most of the newest and most interesting programing and music comes from the U.K. I think the Screen Actors Guild may be responsible for pushing a lot of the programing out of the country. I admit that they have a right to a union, but if they turned out decent programing they might not have to depend on their union for protection so much. Most of what's on television is either reality shows, cop shows, or medical shows. What happened to the good old days of television programing. There were great situation comedies like The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bewitched, The Bob Newhart Show, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and I Love Lucy. The list gos on and on. And there wasn't 40 % commercials and 60% programing. There was 80% programing and 20% commercials.

The thing I miss the most were the great variety shows we used to have with people that had tremendous talent. The Jack Benny Program, The Red Skelton Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, and most of all The Carol Burnett Show. Most of these people could sing, dance, do stand-up and play musical instruments. People with inborn talent and then classically trained. They could do anything at the drop of a hat. My heart longs to see it again, but it will never be back. It's just another part of our country that's gone.

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