Call Your Senator

[iluvcapra]

At the risk of starting another one of these threads, I'm starting it. Wikipedia's blackout pissed me off.

Please use your own wording but this is what I said:

I just wanted to write to let you know the I, and many of us in the entertainment industry, firmly support the passage of laws like the "PROTECT IP Act," S. 968 ("Stop Online Piracy Act" H. R. 3261). I hope that you aren't swayed by the obnoxious but relatively unrepresentative Internet campaign to neutralize it, being staged by loud, well-funded voices in the Big Data industry and their cloud of vaguely-informed emailers.

The spectacle disgusts me. People can't be bothered to protest drone assassinations or Citizens United, but are driven to paroxysms if anyone dares put practical and reasonable sanctions on websites that traffic in pirated content, and tell every manner of mendacious falsehood to scare people into opposing it.

I strongly believe that an Internet with PIPA and PIPA-style (SOPA and SOPA-style) regulation is a necessary and good thing for the entertainment industry, for the professionals and craftsmen that work within it, and it is vital for the protection of commercial art as an institution. Copyright infringement threatens to erode a century-old art and entertainment economy, and to drag artists and entertainers back into the dark ages of patronage and non-professionalism.

Barbara Boxer
Dianne Feinstein

[Whitecat]

We're concentrating discussion here if at all possible, for ease of moderation and the fact that stuff will get fragmented quickly if we let it exist anywhere.

Will leave this thread here but locked for reference...

Thanks!