Protect IP Act Breaks the Internet

When I found out Fight for the Future needed help with their campaign against a new bill called PROTECT-IP, I had to take a little time away from Everything is a Remix Part 4 and produce the video above. PROTECT-IP is the latest piece of legislation aiming to chip away at your online rights in the name of protecting the entertainment industry's business model. It's legislation that won't work, will give us yet more lawsuits, and will make the net worse.

Whether you lean right and hate business regulation, lean left and hate censorship, or lean neither way but hate useless legislation, PROTECT-IP is a bill everyone should oppose. I encourage you to head over to Fight For the Future and contact congress.

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• copyright
• law
• activism
• piracy
• internet

[CMOODO]

AVGN favourited this!!!

[tar1982]

lets all riot if this thing passes.

[brittaweidner]

@hotshahzrulz sorry, haven't checked this thread for a long time. You make a good point, although, it's my husband who listens to the group, & not myself personally.

[leafboom]

*Sees video*

*moves to mexico*

[elotionKING]

Prisons if laws like this pass.

Inmate: So.. why are you in jail? Im here because I raped a woman..

Me: I was filming my son dancing, it had some copyrighted music in the background, im here for 5 years now.

LAWS LIKE THIS CANT PASS! The Goverment are doing to much secret stuff, and the world doesn't have free speech anymore... We have to fight this stuff!

- 15 year old guy from Norway

[Eddierayilerjr]

@FF3601 Music should be sold at the discretion of the artists. many artists may not like peer to peer sites but they also don't lose any money and many of them are against the sopa and pipa acts. So tell me. The government needs to butt out. they will screw it all up.

[rustyscope]

i definitely agree with this video. DMCA had warned me on one of my video, with the same situation where the part where you said they tried to take a baby video off youtube because of the song playing in the background.

[miguelcorteification]

@claw13th yup

[juacoredx]

you know, at this point...anarchism doesn´t even sound that bad.....

[SuperBrighteyes88]

D: Does anyone know when this is supposed to reach the senate floor??

[likewindowssystem]

@claw13th SOPA Killed!!! Support OPEN. OPEN ACT IS A BEST

[mrgeoslugs]

@mrgeoslugs 0:15