what happens if SOPA passes?

"YOU just copied someone else's CUNT tent"

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/31/where_does_the_anti_sopa_movement_go_next/singleton/

The James Boyle article he links to is incredibly inspiring, epiphanies per page

Wait is UMG asserting copyright over the ATS beat itself or just over the track with Yelawolf rapping over it?

Wait is UMG asserting copyright over the ATS beat itself or just over the track with Yelawolf rapping over it?

The beat itself iirc

oh nm it says that

probably just automated waveform detection. in a related case:

http://generationbass.com/2011/02/02/a-turk-and-a-killer-on-a-soundcloud/

1 - Gonjasufi & Gaslamp Killer put out an album with a lot of barely-altered loops from classic Turkish psychedelic rock
2 - Warp does not clear any samples, nor credit the originals
3 - Someone familiar with Turkish psyche uploads a mix with the originals to Soundcloud, beautiful & well researched
4 - The Gonjasufi version is so identical to the Erkin Koray original that it triggers the auto-waveform detection
5 - Warp serves Soundcloud with copyright infringement on their property

these people don't need any more power than they already have

holy shit ^

Hah I just did a search for one of my videos that was removed ("Count 2.6" by Pate) and found that nme.com had linked to it for some reason.

if that story about warp is true, i hope they get their fucking ass handed to them on a platter for that shit

Well its definitely true that Gonjasufi used a fuckload of barely tweaked samples without clearing or crediting any of them.

major labels are frequently guilty of publishing uncleared samples from indie labels / eastern pop; up until now, few minor labels are big enough to sue them. the new development is an internet environment that allows major labels to make the originals disappear. and they don't even mean to; it's an automated process -- based on the assumption that the major labels own whatever they say they do. so passing legislation that lets labels bypass the courts / government / any arbitration whatsoever seems like a really bad idea

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648

not sure i buy the envisioned future of republicans as ip reformers, but it is sort of interesting

This is not about music but there's no better thread:

http://au.gamespot.com/news/ubisoft-drm-games-to-be-temporarily-unplayable-6349732

Publisher's antipiracy scheme will prevent customers from playing some of its Mac and PC games for an undetermined period of time during server transition starting February 7.

but the pirates wont have any downtime at all. Way to treat your paying customers.

Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648

not sure i buy the envisioned future of republicans as ip reformers, but it is sort of interesting

― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:36 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was fairly shocked when I read the 'for' and 'against' SOPA columns. For: Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Franken, etc. etc. etc. -- Against: Bachmann, Paul, Issa, etc -- tea party central. Not mainstream republicans like Boehner but all the radical right who are ready to drum up self-righteous anger at the drop of a hat. So the article you posted actually seems to have it right: MPAA assumed Republican support and spent all their time courting / buying off the Democrats, and by the time they started publically reprimanding Democrats for not staying bought off, it had actually become a full on political win for the right

yeah ur right, i guess what i was taking issue w/is the idea that this is the beginning of a trend, cause you know theres nothing republicans love more than big business and the status quo

but i would love to be proven wrong!

Wow @ that Ubisoft thing, thats completely fucked.

it's perfect really

yeah ur right, i guess what i was taking issue w/is the idea that this is the beginning of a trend, cause you know theres nothing republicans love more than big business and the status quo

― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 8:46 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all the companies with internet-realist business models are anti-SOPA. the Republicans are still big business; but they're seeing a new status quo rising up and they're betting on the teams that are clearly going to win

There, now you've made Cary Sherman cry, you horrible people:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/what-wikipedia-wont-tell-you.html

As it happens, the television networks that actively supported SOPA and PIPA didn’t take advantage of their broadcast credibility to press their case. That’s partly because “old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.” Apparently, Wikipedia and Google don’t recognize the ethical boundary between the neutral reporting of information and the presentation of editorial opinion as fact.

“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”

The hyperbolic mistruths, presented on the home pages of some of the world’s most popular Web sites, amounted to an abuse of trust and a misuse of power.

lmfao at "broadcast credibility"

fileserve has quietly gone back up, it seems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0n09wyQwWk

what a creep

I just love the fact that he actually existed and lived his life

I think it would make an amazing movie

Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648

not sure i buy the envisioned future of republicans as ip reformers, but it is sort of interesting

― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:36 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was fairly shocked when I read the 'for' and 'against' SOPA columns. For: Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Franken, etc. etc. etc. -- Against: Bachmann, Paul, Issa, etc -- tea party central. Not mainstream republicans like Boehner but all the radical right who are ready to drum up self-righteous anger at the drop of a hat. So the article you posted actually seems to have it right: MPAA assumed Republican support and spent all their time courting / buying off the Democrats, and by the time they started publically reprimanding Democrats for not staying bought off, it had actually become a full on political win for the right

― Milton Parker, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

this is kind of fascinating. i'm imagining a future republican party that's dominated by "real conservative" values of the sort that nonreligious conservatives love to tout: personal freedom, free enterprise, free internets, darwinian competition in all things, no handouts. opposed to this is a democratic party that advocates limited freedoms and federal oversight/assistance in the name of social justice and "decency", and which counts on the altruistic sympathies of religious leaders.

iatee otm

this is kind of fascinating. i'm imagining a future republican party that's dominated by "real conservative" values of the sort that nonreligious conservatives love to tout: personal freedom, free enterprise, free internets, darwinian competition in all things, no handouts. opposed to this is a democratic party that advocates limited freedoms and federal oversight/assistance in the name of social justice and "decency", and which counts on the altruistic sympathies of religious leaders.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer),

I believe that is the correct prediction for how the Third American Party System is going to be, just a matter of time for it to all play out. IMO we are in the death throes of the Second Party System.

i.e. the two main parties will basically be Libertarian-lite and Christian Democrat.

blech sorry, I didn't realize we were already up to the Fourth Party System so disregard my terminology... fucking poli-sci...

i.e. the two main parties will basically be Libertarian-lite and Christian Democrat.

Were it so? In the Anglo-American two party system we still adhere to, the two poles must contain multitudes. The multitudes are shifting generationally but should I live another forty years I would love to see the attritional demise of the 'conservative' wing of the Right (they will be outnumbered ethnically for one thing) but I don't even pray that there will be a Christian Democrat party of any interest. The libertarians and Xtiansists have tried to square the circle w/the Gospel and Mammonism for long enough but it cannot last.

well you have to take into account that I don't know what I'm talking about but giving my opinions nonetheless...

Do we have an ACTA thread?

http://hagenspan.com/NYMHall/players/A/ManAct.jpg

So as of today, RIP my most used shared-content site of the last half-year or so, library.nu. Also RIP ifile.it. Supposedly both casualties of an operation by a German association of publishers.

Stuff going down in the UK too Users warned of 10 years in jail as RnBXclusive.com shut down by police

my man Kirby just finished part 4 of Everything Is A Remix and it's the best one yet

http://gizmodo.com/5885644/everything-thats-wrong-with-patent-and-copyright-laws-in-one-brilliant-video

thinking of the Anti-SOPA contingent in the Tea Party; when Kirby pulls up an image of the aged Copyright Act of 1790, it really does strike me how this issue should go right across both party lines

Apparently, Anonymous will try to shut the whole internet down on March 31st.

http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc

Anonymous is getting sloppy - its pretty obvious to me a better date would be the Ides of March rather than a date with no symbolic significance.

on a weekend? c'moooooonnnn

Angus Batey on Mr. Dotcom:

http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/auf-wiedersehen-prat-kim-dotcom-interview.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/2141246/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music

seeing a lot more of these lately

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