Money and power will almost always speaks louder

again, I apologized for the rambling, this blog stuff is still strange to me...

In the opening sentence of Prof. Herman’s article “A political History of DRM and Related Copyright Debates, 1978-2012, “Scholars who discuss copyright often observed that the voices for stronger copyright have more financial and political capital than their opponents and thus tend to win in Congress" can be applied to anything besides copyright, such as tobacco, oil, guns and defense contracts. I like the sentence I think I will use it in the future. In this case it’s about copyright. 

It still amazes me that the US governments especially the military branch still sits around and think of all the these interesting acronyms such as Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeit Act (COICA.) Oh wait oh shit, I used to do that, never mind.  Although I still think it's funny but to the military in the communication intelligence and also the defense agency this is some serious stuff. Many Americans still think that this country is supposed to be a democracy and there are certain freedoms that we have as a US American citizen, but that's only a myth like owning your home and getting the job at the getting a college degree. 

Under the section Domain Seizure section in copyright politics, since 2006 certain government agencies can seize your website, redirect your domain, arrest the owner of the website, confiscate the goods sold on your website, seize your assets and shut you down.  Americans might say that the United States government can’t do this or at least not to go after minor offenders. Well, whether we like it or not this is happening right now in the United States, and to some of the sites outside of the US. And in some instances, the US government agency treats these websites and their owners almost like prisoners of Guantánamo Bay. Was this department is the Department of immigration and customs enforcement also known as ICE, a division of Homeland security. They started seizing domains and websites accused of copyright and trademark infringement. And the frightening part is that some of the sites that shut down were based on allegations that some of the items were alleged trademark infringement. One would think actions like this will only happen in places like China and Korea, but in fact this is happening as we speak on US soil.

Some industries actually coded their work such as music and video so that when you upload it onto a site like YouTube, a warning banner would pop up warning you that you are uploading information that you have infringed on copyrights because certain music or footage(s) on the video were coded with the company brand like WMG, also known as the Warner Music Group. I use this incident as an example because last week I took the liberty of uploading a friend of mines’ video that he was not able to upload because it contain a song that was copyrighted.  I was curious to see what happens if I uploaded the video and sure enough I got the pop up warning banner indicating that by uploading this video that I would be violating copyright infringement.  I thought I would try to upload the video in an “unlisted” mode and see if the video would upload, it did. It allowed me to distribute the link on the download, of should I say manually with a simple copy & paste. 

In a way I can understand why certain groups who spoke against COI see a quickly change the mind to oppose PIPA and SOPA, because these are the group I guess that share a lot of formation of copyright information amongst each other in the technology world and they do not want to get caught up in any type of site seizure when they can lose a lot of their precious times in the copyrights information needed to enhance the technology. I also realize many of the groups like scholars and people who share information and artwork do not want heavy censorship because I would like to share their work with anybody on the Internet.

Unfortunately, many people on the Internet are not nice, they want everything free, these people just want-want-want and horde the technology and profit from it.  Many users just wanted to share their work to anyone who understand their work and continue doing it.

During this period in time somehow be is the way people behave and the lack of imagination because all the information and laziness around I'm actually this may sounds funny I am actually in favor of SOPA and PIPA because people today the majority uses of the Internet are simply selfish. Unlike people 20 years ago even before the end people manage to create with great enthusiasm. Somehow artwork music poetry tends to have the highest creativity when humankind is under stress and adversity.

Unlike the students in the class security was everything. My time was friend and also in the military. These are the very same people right now, doing all the work for ICE hiring hackers that they caught while they were trying to hack into the Department of Defense’s network or any other government agency to work for them to help the government to weed out the bad sites and the shutdown confiscate their goods.

I do not mean to sound like a capitalist pig because I believe that the copyright should be tighter and that people should sort out their own creativity and not copy and paste others' works on the Internet. The myth is that everybody thinks the computer and the Internet will enhance all increase our intelligence and smarts yada yada yada yada and what have you. This is furthest from the truth, the young people as of today wants to do everything the easy way and have no concept of certain social life skills that requires to at least maintain employment on the one needs to work in an environment where casual it's okay even up to and including to the language.

In some ways living in New York City Chinatown near what the tourists now called Chinatown the Golden counterfeit triangle near TriBeCa. I can see why the government wants to shut down these sites, black-market. Many foreigners especially peeved from China mainland and from Russia are using illegal design websites to sell the knockoff goods it worked for a while and it still works today but not its effectiveness 10 years ago and selling junk one 900 numbers phone sex of course female and pornography just to gain a profit.

I sincerely hope the people who petition against SOPA and PIPA the best of luck because Uncle Sam’s dirty henchmen will find ways to come into your life and make things very uncomfortable for you. 

Prof. Herman's article indicates that is the Hollywood group who are firm on SOPA and PIPA and the Silicone Valley groups who want SOPA and PIPA to go away. Either way I believe these groups of people should come together in Congress to discuss this define a medium for SOPA and PIPA?  I can see the below. On the silicone Valley side because these are the people who are in the technological world that require certain shared information to better their technology all in ways for research that will improve the technology we currently have.

Hollywood on the other hand are a bunch of money hungry sucking scum’s, they want everybody to pay for everything that are theirs and they want to control the copyright as tight as a candidate within the grass so people can pay and paid dearly to use their work borrow otherwise and they will sue you severely for copyright infringement just because.

The article also touched on First Amendment right of prior restraint which is not a very good thing if your website was seized by the government and sometimes you wouldn't even know what happened and why was your site and why your site is being seized in the renewed legal counsel would not know whom to speak to to resolve the matter. It appears that there were no due process.

I also feel that in some way they wanted to use the immigrations and customs enforcement to do the dirty work because these are the agencies I can go cross-border and they have very little restriction to do what you need to do this sees questionable websites who they feel that my have been alleged to copyright infringement.

Although the people feel that they might have one because they spoke out through mass media to try to stop soap and paper the government will continue to do as they please on the the influence of the powers that be to seize any unnecessary website a website with suspected or alleged copyright infringement. It is business as usual for big government even the populist voice on me.

I guess the bottom line is the Internet is not different then the real world people would do whatever they can to get whenever they came for free and hope that they'll get caught. We have seen teenagers get busted in a news for excessive Internet download with Pay a fine to the government agency yet certain large corporations get away with copyright infringement and once again justice is not as blind as she think she is off at the way we see it Congress needs to get better subject matter experts to sit down to write the right better policies for SOPA and PIPA to come to some common ground. Because despite what happens the US government can't constantly behave like SS Gestapo's trying to hunt down every single alleged illegal or infringe copyright sites where they can just toss to join us and people in jail without due process. At the same time people would have been peewee of the consequences once that your court and the severity of the sentence that they have been dispersing to the people that are allegedly: doing what did not supposed to do.

Again I apologize for the rambling but the topic that I covered here as far as digital copyrights and how government can be big brother sees your business your website and I guess in the way it is fear because there are businesses out there that are selling goods and services that they can't promise or worse selling fake stuff using the Internet to sell fake fashion items like Gucci bags will be Tom fake watches or whatever it is that should not be legal in the web world that they're not legal in the virtual or actual reality.

Like everything knows is always two sides to an argument, but money almost always speak louder than words.