Register of Copyrights: without SOPA, copyright "will ultimately fail"

[charles maynes]

Originally Posted by John Eppstein

The problem is when people stray into uncontrolled rants about corruption, Wall Street, drug policy, racial discrimination, starving children in Africa, petro-economics, anarchist theory, the trilateral commission, the New World Order, blah, blah and woof-woof......

There's also a definite difference between politics and history that some people don't appear to understand.

Sweet Jesus, you have no idea of how much I agree with you on both those points

[charles maynes]

Originally Posted by John Eppstein

Well we sure won't if we don't SPEAK THE HELL UP before they attack it with meat cleavers.

Which is why its so unproductive to bicker amoungst ourselves when we want the same essential outcome- to stop the pirates sites, deny any sort of legitimacy to them and see them be prosecuted in whatever manner is possible under our laws. The energy needs to be spent not here, but in the faces of the sponsors of the bills and and in communications with the members of the Judiciary committee.

Originally Posted by John Eppstein

Fat chance. The carving and cutting process is all about benefiting the big corporations that can buy a seat at the table.

Our voice is most effective as constituents. Those deciding its fate have a legal obligation to hear our concerns as such, and I think those places are where the energy is best expended. Encouraging them to listen to people like Terry and Robert Levene who can speak the language of that forum better than we might be able to is a new priority, at least for me.

Originally Posted by John Eppstein

Right.

I am not sure if that was an agreement, but I hope it might have been.