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TalkBack / Re: Capcom Clarifies Their Stance on SOPA
« on: January 08, 2012, 11:11:08 AM »
@UncleBob The people who run corporations are obviously individuals.
But they are fighting as proponents and authors of SOPA solely as huge world-wide monopolistic enterprises, worried only about profits even if getting more and more degrades technological infrastructures they don't even understand or aren't central part of, nor of its community (i.e., any and all of us); fighting to force their users into giving them more profit without them actually having to innovate or improve their products, or to fix their prices so it is actually possible for most people to buy one of their movies, songs mainly after another but just force ALL OF US, and with this law, even reach people who don't even consumes their products, pirated or not...
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Meanwhile, on the side of opponents you have the most prominent companies on the Internet (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Paypal, and free ones like Wikipedia) and even the very creators of the Internet.
Such corporation owners have rights, but if you let them do whatever they want you allow them to establish monopolies and abuse their users, and you know it.
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So this is more about extremely powerful corporations with obsolete views pretending to degrade the Internet contents and limiting its legal possibilities as long as it allows them to control it so much that they would be the ones in charge and dictating what is good and what is bad.
And sooner than later, those powers would be abused by other powerful people other than those who created SOPA (and by themselves too, as shown by fact because of bogus claims with current copyright laws), and then they would be used to censor anything they would wish to disappear from public view.
The result wouldn't be any different from an Internet that would first be completely wiped out and then filled only with the (commercial and promotional) content those mega corporations wanted to allow, in a world wide scale.
Being people mainly in the entertainment industry, and generic commercial products, the actual information on the Internet would be so controlled and non-free, so complicated and risky to edit by users without any risk to run into more bogus claims, and so bureaucracy-bound, that it would be much more difficult, if even possible, to have a lot of quality information than what it already is.
But they are fighting as proponents and authors of SOPA solely as huge world-wide monopolistic enterprises, worried only about profits even if getting more and more degrades technological infrastructures they don't even understand or aren't central part of, nor of its community (i.e., any and all of us); fighting to force their users into giving them more profit without them actually having to innovate or improve their products, or to fix their prices so it is actually possible for most people to buy one of their movies, songs mainly after another but just force ALL OF US, and with this law, even reach people who don't even consumes their products, pirated or not...
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Meanwhile, on the side of opponents you have the most prominent companies on the Internet (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Paypal, and free ones like Wikipedia) and even the very creators of the Internet.
Such corporation owners have rights, but if you let them do whatever they want you allow them to establish monopolies and abuse their users, and you know it.
_____________________________________________________________
So this is more about extremely powerful corporations with obsolete views pretending to degrade the Internet contents and limiting its legal possibilities as long as it allows them to control it so much that they would be the ones in charge and dictating what is good and what is bad.
And sooner than later, those powers would be abused by other powerful people other than those who created SOPA (and by themselves too, as shown by fact because of bogus claims with current copyright laws), and then they would be used to censor anything they would wish to disappear from public view.
The result wouldn't be any different from an Internet that would first be completely wiped out and then filled only with the (commercial and promotional) content those mega corporations wanted to allow, in a world wide scale.
Being people mainly in the entertainment industry, and generic commercial products, the actual information on the Internet would be so controlled and non-free, so complicated and risky to edit by users without any risk to run into more bogus claims, and so bureaucracy-bound, that it would be much more difficult, if even possible, to have a lot of quality information than what it already is.
