IP Protect

[silverthunder]

Okay. Consider I don't live in the States, sharing this is probably the only thing I can do - although I'm not sure how many people actually don't know about it yet.

http://vimeo.com/31100268

This is massively disturbing to me on any number of levels. Worst case scenario, this is looking like the road to mass censorship. I may be overreacting, but... whoa. If I'm not, this is freaky.

Think about how many things on the Internet there are that reference some form of entertainment. It's... basically everything I enjoy doing on the 'net at all.

This is backwards thinking regardless of how you look at it.

Comments

[illianaka.livejournal.com]

This enrages me as a writer for so many reasons. And it enrages what small part of me pays attention to politics as a person. All-out censorship never works. Ever. Period. The end.

Show me a time blanket, utter censorship has worked and maybe I'll see the benefit. As it is, I just think of the high pregnancy/abortion/STD rates in schools that teach abstinence-only.

[daysofseptember.livejournal.com]

I'm baffled that they're still trying to stop online piracy. I honestly thought that they had moved on to trying to COMPETE with it by now.