After the protests and public outcry over SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA you would expect the MPAA to understand, it wasn’t just a few companies that were complaining, it was the biggest stake holder, the public. Now they are trying to exclude the people most affected by laws concerning open and free communications and make deals with a few corporations.
http://blog.mpaa.org/BlogOS/post/2012/02/16/Moving-Forward-on-Piracy-.aspx
Several hundred years ago, the transit times of books and news was extremely long, information spread at a very slow rate. Centuries ago for like minded individuals to come together, for a conspiracies to form, or for people to come to a consensus, it took years.
That has changed. We live in a time when information and news spreads at an unbelievable rate. Now you do not need to wait six months for a letter to reach you. It doesn’t take 3 months to travel to conference to meet face to face. Now you turn on your cellphone and text, tweet, or hit you Facebook or Google+ page.
Due to modern communications, we are seeing an acceleration of consensus, and a shortening of the time it takes for systems to be attacked for corruption or being overbearing. This trend is accelerating at an amazing rate. People are slowly beginning to understand this is occurring. Most people currently believe it is only a “don’t touch our Internet” thing. Silly people …
ABC News –“PIPA / SOPA and the Online Tsunami: A First Draft of the Future”
Intellectual Property Chapter
In order to make an truly informed decision about (wikpedia links >>->) ACTA, TPP*, SOPA, and PIPA you need to read them. Everyone is talking about how these are internet-killing, speech-stifling, and how they will be abused. All this is true. In all actuality how many have actually read these bills, and trade agreements?
Here they are the actual texts for your perusal.
ACTA – Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (text)
TPP – Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (text)
SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act (text)
PIPA – PROTECT IP Act (text)
