Posted on Tea Party Nation
January 9, 2012
WASHINGTON - Wisconsin’s First District Congressman Paul Ryan released the following statement regarding H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act:
"The internet is one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history. It should stay that way. While H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, attempts to address a legitimate problem, I believe it creates the precedent and possibility for undue regulation, censorship and legal abuse. I do not support H.R. 3261 in its current form and will oppose the legislation should it come before the full House."
This is HUGE! Paul Ryan was one of the biggest front runners for the SOPA bill and the fact he is now reversing his decision will send shock waves through out Washington. Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of this terrible piece of work.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM TO OPPOSE H.R. 3261!
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A1768071&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Guilty until proven innocent
11/16/11
By Rick Manning — What would you say about a piece of legislation that allows a competitor to cut off the revenue stream to its competition based upon an unproven allegation?
What would you call a piece of legislation that destroys an alleged offender’s business without allowing it to first confront its accuser in a court of law?
What would you call a piece of legislation that allows major corporations with teams of lawyers to intimidate and drive their small competitors out of business due to a baseless claim or even an honest mistake?
Unfortunately, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) calls this legislation H.R. 3261.
Smith’s bill presumes that a website operator who is accused of using someone else’s intellectual property is guilty by immediately cutting off the advertising revenue stream for the site. The legislation coerces Internet advertising companies by holding them harmless in an intellectual property dispute if they cut off the accused’s ad revenues within five days of an allegation.
The allegation doesn’t have to be true, and it doesn’t have to have merit.
It just has to be made, and the ad revenue stream gets cut off out of a sense of preservation by the ad placement company
CONTINUE READING: http://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/guilty-until-proven-innocent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NetrightDaily+%28NetRight+Daily%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
By Rick Manning — What would you say about a piece of legislation that allows a competitor to cut off the revenue stream to its competition based upon an unproven allegation?
What would you call a piece of legislation that destroys an alleged offender’s business without allowing it to first confront its accuser in a court of law?
What would you call a piece of legislation that allows major corporations with teams of lawyers to intimidate and drive their small competitors out of business due to a baseless claim or even an honest mistake?
Unfortunately, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) calls this legislation H.R. 3261.
Smith’s bill presumes that a website operator who is accused of using someone else’s intellectual property is guilty by immediately cutting off the advertising revenue stream for the site. The legislation coerces Internet advertising companies by holding them harmless in an intellectual property dispute if they cut off the accused’s ad revenues within five days of an allegation.
The allegation doesn’t have to be true, and it doesn’t have to have merit.
It just has to be made, and the ad revenue stream gets cut off out of a sense of preservation by the ad placement company
CONTINUE READING: http://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/guilty-until-proven-innocent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NetrightDaily+%28NetRight+Daily%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
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