The Internet Needs Laws

[seraphy]

It already has a number of laws. Law 34 is rigorously enforced. As is 35 and 36.

Laws 1 and 2 have become lax over the years though.

Rule number 85 is my personal favorite.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

It already has a number of laws. Law 34 is rigorously enforced. As is 35 and 36.

Laws 1 and 2 have become lax over the years though.

Rule number 85 is my personal favorite.

Rule 284 applies to both equally.

 

[instantbenz]

SOPA is bad because it's too far reaching.

Laws need to be precise and target very specific scenarios, SOPA needs to be a sniper rifle, not a nuclear bomb.

The internet is a very hard thing to regulate, any attempt to do so would have to be surgical in its accuracy so as to avoid collateral damage.

I totally used that analogy yesterday in a post. crazy.

but seriously op you are not getting it if you don't see the current laws and this ridiculously real and grave threat to all of our freedoms. The WORLD's internet freedoms are at stake. However much people hate Obama, we are lucky that his rise in fame occurred through social networking, he actually gives a fuck about the internet.

Anyway, we need people who understand to write these laws, not uninformed, money-hungry, elderly asshole politicians.

A tweezers, not a bulldozer. A sniper, not a nuke. Logic, not greed.

 

[BabySinclair]

There are already laws that are abused. The problem lies not in with the legality of actions taken on the internet, people will always break them anyways. What needs to change is how the IP holders distribute their services and products. More people would buy movies if they weren't $30 on DVD and games wouldn't be pirated as much if they had demos that showed a proper and representative amount of game play. Distributors could also either stop region-locking releases or lower the price of new games to encourage more sales.

Not saying that there shouldn't be laws, just saying most of the problem rests with the means of distribution of music, movies, and games.

 

[michael87cn]

Today, sites across the Internet are going on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA. Their aim is certainly noble, and it may stop these particular bills, but it's a delaying action at best; there is too much money being lost by people and companies for them not to keep fighting for some form of substantial copyright protection.

The Internet community as a whole seems to regard this as anathema, but WHY? Most people support some form of protection to prevent artists from being pirated into oblivion, and we have other laws in place restricting access to certain content (child pornography is the most obvious). So why do people insist that the Internet should be a lawless place, where pirates can steal freely with the 'promise' that if they like some content, they'll go back and pay for it later, but where government-sponsored (SOPA and PIPA) or company-sponsored (DRM) restrictions are the worst possible creations?

I ask you, Escapists: Should the Internet have laws and some form of control? How should people and companies be allowed to protect their intellectual property?

Because killing the patient to cure the disease isn't an acceptable solution.

 

[Ariyura]

Megaupload has been shutdown by the feds but still people want to say laws aren't in place.