House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.
“While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House,” Issa said in a statement. “Majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote.”
Whether or no it will return in another format we'll have to wait and see.
Hopefully there'll be a bit more focus on the OPEN bill now, which seems a lot more sensible than this clusterfuck has been.
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.
“While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House,” Issa said in a statement. “Majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote.”
Whether or no it will return in another format we'll have to wait and see.
Hopefully there'll be a bit more focus on the OPEN bill now, which seems a lot more sensible than this clusterfuck has been.
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.
“While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House,” Issa said in a statement. “Majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote.”
Whether or no it will return in another format we'll have to wait and see.
Hopefully there'll be a bit more focus on the OPEN bill now, which seems a lot more sensible than this clusterfuck has been.
What about PIPA?
If SOPA or PIPA effectively gets shelved, the other will follow suit.
Wish he'd just retire altogether or die, he's way past his prime or understanding on this one.
This guy is so far from having any contact with reality. He is truely unbelieveable. I do not even wanna call him insane, since it would be a prerogative for insane people to be called Rupert Murdoch!
Google has settled an enormous amount of cases with rightholders. Guess that is what he is shooting at. However since they have paid their way out of the lawsuits they are not pirates.
To me the bigger problem in this case is a person from the old media pushing for restrictons on new media. He seems to think that stealing the printing press from competitiors is the way to move forward, which any reasonable journalist will deny.
The US have commited to ACTA and therefore have to pass a copyrigth protection act of some sort. It seems that the big business is pushing for the most extreme measures they could think about and push all they can to get it through. They are appearently completely ignoring the alternative open law.
If they manage to block all sites with free music and also stop 90% of private copyrigted downloading, I can imagine how much of pirated material will get sold, just like in old days.
I know people who are going to prepare with terabytes worth of music and movies. Then you just sell it for halfprice since everyone who wants culture has to buy from you or big corporation/full price.
Glad to see SOPA going down, but I'm concerned about PIPA and ACTA. Would be nice to see updates on these if there is any?
On January 17 2012 05:45 Ryndika wrote: Glad to see SOPA going down, but I'm concerned about PIPA and ACTA. Would be nice to see updates on these if there is any?
Well PIPA is sort of tied to SOPA and will receive some downgrading too but I too am a little confused on its status. As for ACTA here are two discussions largely in regard to the United States, but it's important to remember ACTA would have a different effect on the EU, and a more binding one for sure.
TL;DR IMO the articles seem to suggest ACTA is too broad and vague for any short term significance, and may even run into serious long term problems because of USTR and because it is not a self-executing treaty. In effect ACTA is a large umbrella fabric of law that has a long-term and President by President basis, as in different President's can speed up or delay the abilities of ACTA, which makes sense because SOPA/PIPA serve to act as fillers and more immediate action in regards to digital property rights. In another words ACTA just isn't quite enough and is more targeting piracy overseas then domestically, but the enforceability of such a treaty depends on the executive branches willingness of each country to actually pursue it, and even then, the executive branch of each country may seriously challenged or hindered on its ACTA prerogatives. (God I have too much time on my hands, I need a job while I wait to enter my next semester )
The fact that we have to put so much effort into stopping them from doing something fucking idiotic rather than giving them support to do something productive hurts my imaginary soul.
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