This is why LiveJournal ardently opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), two bills currently in discussion in the United States Congress; with PIPA up for committee vote this coming January 24. We understand there is good intent behind these two bills – they are, after all, designed to protect copyrighted and trademarked property. But the language of these bills is so vague that any intellectual property owner that feels its copyright has been violated can have a site taken down, without the normal due process of law. Based on this, a LiveJournal user could post content, even an icon, that contains copyrighted material, and the copyright owner could conceivably have LiveJournal – the entire site – taken down without any way for LiveJournal to address or correct the issue.
LiveJournal is a group of communities created, owned and operated by all of you. We have worked hard to uphold the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. We believe the DMCA, while not perfect, continues to be an adequate measure to fight piracy and copyright infringement. SOPA and PIPA are overkill that would have the effect of undermining our collective guarantee of freedom of speech. These two bills are about censorship, and LiveJournal is joining the fight to ensure these bills never come to pass.
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....potentially big impact for users with larger audiences.
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You do know that their main office is in Russia right now, right?
You are aware of the fact that LJ is owned by a russian billionare w. a shady past?!
So basicly they could #realocate#(in a leagal way of speaking) practicly in no time at all if they wanted to. They are simply milking you, and thouthands of other for PR reasons.
By the way, for non-Spanish speaking, you SOPA is soup, and PIPA is smoking pipe. That's exactly what they are doing with the world. Imagine planet earth sitting sick, eating soup, and alienated by smoking cigars and weeds...
For a country that supposedly values free speech, they sure don't act like it.
I wonder what they think that they'll accomplish with this (Besides a mass migration to site hosting outside of the country).
Since if it passes, I can foresee people moving their site hosting to other countries to bypass the ruling.
Really, how the #*!! do they expect to enforce this? They seem to forget that the internet isn't only in the US. If this is passed, people WILL find a way around it.
(Sorry if this double posted, my internet is acting up.)
I am a member of the LJ community ... It's actually a point where I could express my mind freely and always within the margin of respect ... This legislation will be approved in the U.S., but I am a Latin American ... and eventhough it can not intervene ... I just want to say that the Internet connects the world that we are a community not only in a planet if this width with the internet not that we are together ... LJ other sites are meeting space for free expression and thought, we know all the problems that have occurred by copyright, but one thing I learned from my country, is that vague laws can lead to major problems of seeking to solve ... I am anti SOPA and PIPA, I object, that the world is deprived of a free speech and thought ...
and one of the main LJ profiteers
has posted child porno ?!
If you think that THAT is ok, go on, and support current structure of LJ, and this letter in this post.
As far as I go, I will support ANY legislation that will hurt profiters of child prono!
TO ALL LJ STUFF:
member of LJ's supervising council
Artem Lebedev posted child porno in LJ.
He (A.Lebedev) is still a key figure for this company.
How in the world do you write this "moral" letter,
while LJ is still profiting from child porno ?!
As long as LJ "Tema" is still intact LJ as a company IS profiting from child porno.
(*That company is called livejournal;)
let's do everything we can to stop it
you DO know that there is an entire parallel platform livejournal.ru , right!?
You do know that their main office is in Russia right now, right?
You are aware of the fact that LJ is owned by a russian billionare w. a shady past?!
The only thing the would need to #realocate#(in a leagal way of speaking) is to switch a few letters in a couple of countracts, and reroute us.
They are simply milking you,
and thouthands of other for PR reasons!
and one of the main LJ profiteers
has posted child porno ?!
If you think that THAT is ok, go on, and support current structure of LJ, and this letter.
TO ALL LJ STUFF:
member of LJ's supervising council
Artem Lebedev posted child porno in LJ.
He (A.Lebedev) is still a key figure for this company.
How in the world do you write this "moral" letter,
while LJ is still profiting from child porno ?!
There was a time in which computers were considered a "nerd thing", now it's a necessary tool for self expression and communication around the world. Even more so that electronic apparatus have strove to resemble it or to serve as a substitute: ipads, phones, televisions with wifi.
Why does American idiocy affect the rest of the world more than anything good coming out of America?
The idea to stop copyright infringements is fine, but next thing you know, nobody can use the internet because of all the sites getting shut down!
May i remind the US that what they're doing affects anyone who uses the internet... which is pretty much EVERYONE!!
Stupid pricks!
Okay, rant over.
Keep calling, keep writing, keep pushing!
Livejournal has made another million or two by fulling people..
YES! yeeeah! sure... most certainly "won",
if by "won" you mean filling the pockets of a Russian oligach.
Are you aware of the fact that
that LJ is owned by a russian billionare w. a shady past?!
So basicly they could #realocate#(in a leagal way of speaking) practicly in no time at all if they wanted to. They are simply milking you, and thouthands of other for PR reasons.
ps. I have no doubt about yours(and other users) good intentions, they just couldn't be more missguided, than in case of Livejournal.
Edited at 2012-01-19 06:09 pm (UTC)
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