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I. SOPA Returns, Renamed and Pared Down







Lamar Smith
[Image Source: Lamar Smith]




II. Will it Pass?








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Sources: House of Representatives [PDF], TechCrunch

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Boycott big media in 2013!
By dgingerich on 7/12/2012 7:30:46 PM , Rating: 5
I would like to promote the idea of boycotting all big media for all of 2013! For all of 2013, in protest of these attempts to extort more money from the citizens of the US, we need to boycott all music and movies in any form. No buying CDs, DVDs, or BluRay disks. No going to the theater or concerts.

Show them we are the ones with the power, and they exist at our permission. Make them pay for these atrocious attempts to extort us!

Join me on Facebook on my "Anti-SOPA/Protect IP" page. I want to get all people who want to get justice against big media and their political lackies like Lamar Smith together in a coordinated effort to make them pay. Let's show them who has the real power here!

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By Invane on 7/13/2012 12:17:45 PM , Rating: 2
I've been doing this for some time. I refuse to purchase any movies or music at this point, and I was a big home theater fan. It saddens me greatly that I can't buy movies any more.

The bad part, if enough people actually do this to impact their bottom lines, they'll just blame piracy and make up some new legislation that diverts money to their pockets. Then they'll make three more taxpayer funded government agencies to police the peasants and increase 'awareness' about the problem.

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By dgingerich on 7/13/2012 12:41:10 PM , Rating: 3
That's exactly why we need a central communication point to tell them that we are boycotting them. (In addition, we need to tell them we're sick of supporting their flops and to stop making them.)

I have purchased a total of 3 bluray movies and one music CD (and that was a really old "greatest hits" CD) this year. that's far down from back before the RIAA got started suing so many innocent people. Before that all got started, I was buying on the order of 60-70 movies and CDs per year. They ticked me off.

I'm going for a total, organized, boycott in 2013. The Avengers should be showing up on shelves around early 2013. if we can impact the sales of that movie (don't worry, we can catch up in 2014) as well as The Dark Knight Rises, we'll possibly get their attention. If I can get enough people in on the Facebook page, or even, if I find one that represents my views, join another page that would organize a boycott, we could possibly get media attention and make those idiot music and movie executives listen.

Personally, I'm sock of garbage TV, music, and movies, and I'm tired of supporting it. I've switched almost entirely to BBC and Japanese TV. (Top Gear and Doctor Who are awesome to me. Misfits and some others are quite good, too. There are a few British shows that were cancelled that I liked a lot, but they don't really listen to their US market. Anime is well, amine. It's different, and I understand some people are just too small minded to look past the big animated boobs to see the social messages and philosophy behind it.) They just make so much better TV than anything we have here in the US.

I just find it hard to even find any good shows in US TV. White Collar and Burn Notice were good in the beginning, but have turned quite formulaic lately. Phych is still quite good, even though it is quite formulaic too. NCIS has been good for a long time, but that's the only thing I'll watch from any of the big networks these days. Do you think they even notice they're slipping? Do they even realize how incompetent they are?

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By dark matter on 7/14/2012 6:14:39 PM , Rating: 4
People are simply not that politically motivated.

Especially not after a long hard week, and come saturday they decide not to invite their friends kids round to watch the latest disney movie because they are on some boycott.

Decided that the film they had been looking forward to watching once the kids are in bed, that's out of the window now, boycott on.

And their favourite artists new CD. Well, that won't be listened to on Monday on the way back to work, after a really boring weekend having to speak to each other, listen to no music, watch no films, or any TV.

Yup, they are too busy boycotting.

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By topkill on 7/16/2012 7:23:53 PM , Rating: 2
I LIKE big, animated boobs...or any other kind of big boobs.

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By dark matter on 7/14/2012 6:05:00 PM , Rating: 2
You're average Joe is far too indoctrinated to give a damn. If anything, tell them they cannot watch their sports, latest movie, or CD of songs to drive really reckless to, well, you would get away with calling their mother than get them to go without.

I'll let you into a little secret. Most people don't want to be "helped". Most people like the decisions to made for them. (religion, for example). Most people will work really hard for you whilst you take all the profit, so long as you give them little comforts. Like a fridge of beer, some weekend sports, and a movie for the missus. A CD to stick on the bedroom whilst they have a little hanky panky.

Now if you tell those same people, that hey, all you want to do is catch the guys who are "stealing" the stuff you have to pay for, that movie, that sports event, that CD. All that stuff you have to WORK really hard for they are not paying for it. Imagine how much cheaper it would be if you don't have to subsidize their feckless lives.

What do you think they would say? Sure, we'll give up the few pleasures we have, just so we can help out the guys who don't pay for the same stuff we have to.

But that isn't the secret I was on about. No, that is just the final end to your plan to foil the invetible. It won't work, you'll just be another tin foil hat wearing, illuminati, UFO spotter, ranting on facebook, or wherever.

The secret, as I've told you, is that people don't want to be free. So stop trying. If you're one of the few who are actually "aware", then you have two options;

Drop completely out of the system.
Learn the rules of the game, go directly to go and collect $200.

RE: Boycott big media in 2013!
By greylica on 7/14/2012 7:35:15 PM , Rating: 2
There is also another way to help this:

Better than only a boycott, is to turn our eyes to alternative Medias, like Creative Commons, Free Music, Free Software, Unlocked Phones, Unlocked consoles, etc.

