Lamar Smith, SOPA Author, Caught Red-Handed Infringing Copyright

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From the International Buisness Times:

"An investigative report by Vice found a photo on Smith's campaign site had infringed the copyright and never credited the source.

Here's how it went down.

Vice checked out an archived version of Smith's Web site using the Wayback Machine and found it once used a background image of a stock photo of a colorful woodland scene created by a photographer named D.J. Schulte. According to Schulte, the image was a Creative Commons photo that could be used by anyone as long as they credited his name. But Smith's campaign failed to properly credit the photograph."
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Oh, the delicious irony! :lol: This means that if SOPA gets passed, then its author could be one of the fist people to fall victim to it. :rotfl:

Well, as the Good Book says, "That which you sew, you shall also reap."

I think this deserves a:

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See this just proves it. Everyone violates copyright law to some extent in their life time. For the government to try and crack down on it proves that we are coming closer and closer to a police state.

I know I'll be criticized for saying this, but I think Anonymous should go bigger with their attacks and start shutting down power plants and mass communication outlets until the government abandons its plans to restrict the flow of free thought.
 
I understand the importance of copyright. But any business model that depends on a pack of lawyers spreading out over the world to find everyone violating copyright is not just silly and intrusive. It is also doomed.

We are seeing now in video and print what already has happened in music. Editors, publishers and other middlemen are finding it more difficult to add value to the product and are reduced to protecting the value of the product.

It is a phase, one we will pass through.
 
Commodore said:
I know I'll be criticized for saying this, but I think Anonymous should go bigger with their attacks and start shutting down power plants and mass communication outlets until the government abandons its plans to restrict the flow of free thought.
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You're right I will criticize you. :p

Why do things that inconvenience normal people and attack things that have nothing/very little to do with their original point? The last thing that needs to happen right now is for Anonymous to make themselves look like domestic terrorists that are the only voice on the issue and turn public opinion in the other direction. Unfortunately, given how these idiots act, I wouldn't be shocked to see this happen.
 
bombshoo said:
You're right I will criticize you. :p

Why do things that inconvenience normal people and attack things that nothing/very little to do with your original point? The last thing that needs to happen right now is for Anonymous to make themselves look like a domestic terrorist that are the only voice on the issue and turn public opinion in the other direction. Unfortunately, given how these idiots act, I wouldn't be shocked to see this happen.
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The point would be to show the government that they are not in control. They need to be shown that in the age we live in, one disgruntled citizen can bring the whole nation down. For the first time in history the saying "people should not fear their government, the government should fear its people" will finally ring true.

The message that needs to be sent to the government needs to be end this madness or we will end it for you and our way will be much more painful.
 
Commodore said:
For the first time in history the saying "people should not fear their government, the government should fear its people" will finally ring true.

The message that needs to be sent to the government needs to be end this madness or we will end it for you and our way will be much more painful.
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I still fail to see how shutting off the power and communication and thus endangering people is at all an appropriate response. I don't want to fear the government or these people. Shutting down power and communication doesn't send the proper message at all. It boils down to attempting coerce the government by attacking the lives of the very people who's freedoms they are claiming to protect, since in the end, citizens will be the ones feeling the blunt end of any sort of the type of attack you described, not the government.

They need to be shown that in the age we live in, one disgruntled citizen can bring the whole nation down.
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How is this at all a more comforting thought?
 
Paul in Saudi said:
I understand the importance of copyright. But any business model that depends on a pack of lawyers spreading out over the world to find everyone violating copyright is not just silly and intrusive. It is also doomed.
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This is a very wise statement. I mean I can see computer games having success in their efforts. You all know those people crying "Their intrusive anti-copy programs only hurts themselves! :aargh:" (like you hear a lot of not so thought through statements by the pro-copy-front) but the fact of the matter is that anti-copy measures for games can work decently well, because they are actual programs and hence offer great opportunities to prevent their undue distribution. It isn't about making it impossible per se. It is about making it so inconvenient that it does not amount to the standard practice. And I am fairly sure that had the industry capitulated right away, it would be in a shape way worse than it is. Remember, music and movies got concerts and cinemas.
Though additionally people spend significant time with games where they do nothing but play it, which increases its subjective value. It is an actual and special hobby of people. So they are more willing to spend money. So that helps gaming, too.

It's different with music and video:
- No programs, only simple media files
- No significant investments of time (a movie for two hours), no status of a "hobby" with most people
It's really hard to imagine how those industries intend to win their fight with a public more and more on the side of pirating due to demographics.
 
Come on folks, I imagine the guys in charge of image copyrights havent been contributing generously to "small government" Smith's campaign slush fund like the big boys have been so really this is of non-importance.
 
bombshoo said:
I still fail to see how shutting off the power and communication and thus endangering people is at all an appropriate response. I don't want to fear the government or these people. Shutting down power and communication doesn't send the proper message at all. It boils down to attempting coerce the government by attacking the lives of the very people who's freedoms they are claiming to protect, since in the end, citizens will be the ones feeling the blunt end of any sort of the type of attack you described, not the government.



How is this at all a more comforting thought?
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It's not supposed to be a comforting thought. It's supposed to scare the living crap out of the government.

It's about showing the government that they are powerless to stop the people from bringing down their carefully established order. It's about showing them what will happen the moment they even think of overstepping their bounds. For the government to pursue a path of tyranny and oppression would be tantamount to pursing a path of national suicide. The reason our government does what it does is because they hold all the power. They have no reason to fear the common man. Now though, groups like Anonymous can put that proverbial gun to the government's head to get them to start serving the people again.

I also think the impact could be limited to only those who deserve it. A skilled hacker could cut power to individual homes or government/corporate facilities. Politicians' bank accounts could be drained, thus eliminating their campaign funds. Corporate meetings conducted over video conference could be disrupted. A specific corporation could even be targeted in the stock market. Hell, a truly brilliant hacker could even disrupt military operations. Hacker attacks need not be area effect, they can be precision strikes.
 
A government is generally controlled by people who are themselves ungoverned.
 
Commodore said:
I know I'll be criticized for saying this, but I think Anonymous should go bigger with their attacks and start shutting down power plants and mass communication outlets until the government abandons its plans to restrict the flow of free thought.
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I'm pretty sure I disagree with this subjective comment more than any other that I have ever read on this board.

I don't think it is inconsistent with your thought to think that terrorists should bomb the White House to stop America's imperialist behavior.
 
Commodore said:
It's about showing the government that they are powerless to stop the people from bringing down their carefully established order. It's about showing them what will happen the moment they even think of overstepping their bounds.
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That a gang of self-appointed liberators will start committing terrorist acts in the name of people they didn't consult? What will that prove? What has that ever proven?
 
:lmao:. Is this why it's lost support so much in the government?

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How do people not even have a basic understanding of what PIPA and SOPA are? It's like the more something gets talked about, the less it is understood.

This would be like if a head person of MADD (Mothers against drunk drivers) found to have blown a stop sign, so that proves drinking and driving should be legal.
 
On the scale of 1-10 in order of hypocritical things to do (10 = Newt Gingrich trying to get Bill Clinton impeached while he cheats on his sick wife, 1 = a cop parking in a red zone in a non-emergency) I give this a 2.

Yeah it looks bad but I wouldn't call this a LEGENDARY FAIL. Maybe more of a "hah, what a dufus." To be honest his toupee alarms me more than anything else.
 
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