Is there another Solution instead of SOPA and PIPA
Here’s what I know so far:
- Rights holders have legitimate concerns. They do lose lots of money to pirating. Here’s a good presentation by @FastGirlFilms (I think it is slanted against advertisers but if you look at their losses and their efforts to leverage DMCA, they have a point.)
- The content creator/delivery/blogger/search/payment ecosystem has lots to lose too by getting filtered without adequate due process or redress. Most notably, Google and PayPal have legitimate concerns as to the cost and overhead with fighting piracy. Content delivery networks - including Facebook also have concerns over the same issues.
- Technologists state that it is impossible to stop piracy. I agree. Sites can go up and down overnight and pirates will get paid one way or another. As soon as you know the address of an offending site and report it, it’s likely to be smoke.
- Internet filtering is censorship. Plain and simple. It’s a slippery slope that affects everyone’s rights from the content creators to content consumers.
- The DMCA was created to combat piracy. Piracy remains a problem and the sheer volume of DMCA notices indicates that DMCA is an unwieldy issue for any party.
- Our government is stretched and there are a number of issues that should take priority over addressing this issue.
So what is it going to take? Who is going to budge?
A possible solution:
That both the proponents of SOPA and PIPA, the content delivery/advertising networks above, and our representatives haven’t sat down at the table and hashed out a solution that works. Does it require a law? No. It requires a concerted effort by all parties to take reasonable efforts to combat the issue. Everyone involved in the entire supply chain is responsible; yet no one is doing their part.
Perhaps it does require the government to push this forward - but does it require a law?
No, just leadership and participation by everyone in the process.
More later….
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