EMERGENCY NY TECH MEETUP – Jan 18 2012 #SOPA #PIPA #nytmSOS #stopSOPA #nyc

4 thoughts on “EMERGENCY NY TECH MEETUP – Jan 18 2012 #SOPA #PIPA #nytmSOS #stopSOPA #nyc”

1. • 1/12 Becca Aaronson Texan’s Anti-Piracy Bill Gets Home State Pushback (NY Times)
   • 1/13 Cory Doctorow 60 senators won’t meet with activists to talk about PIPA: will yours? Call in & ask them to reconsider! (Boing Boing) – includes Schumer and Gillibrand
   • 1/13 Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents (CNET)
   • 1/13 Timothy B. Lee Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA (Ars Technica)
   • 1/13 Carl Franzen:NY Tech Meetup Will Physically Protest Senators Over SOPA/PIPA (TPM)
   • 1/13 Joe Gallo MEET UPS SCHEDULED OVER PROTECT IP ACT
   • 1/13 Nitasha Tiku NYC Startup Founder Says Schumer’s Office Told Her the Senator ‘Is In Favor of Censoring the Internet’ (Betabeat)
   • 1/13 Adrianne Jeffries Sen. Schumer’s Office Says He’s Still Carefully Considering PIPA (Betabeat)
   • 1/13 Reddit New York tech community to protest PIPA outside Senate offices 1/18
   • 1/13 YCombinator Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18
   • 1/13 Techies To Protest Schumer, Gillibrand, In New York (BuzzFeed)
   • 1/13 Matthew Flamm NY Tech Meetup raises red flag over piracy bills (Crain’s)
   • 1/14 White House Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet – response to SOPA veto petition
   • 1/14 Tim O’Reilly Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right Problem – economic argument unproven
   • 1/14 Edward Wyatt White House Says It Opposes Parts of Two Antipiracy Bills (NY Times)
   • 1/16 Cory Doctorow Emergency NY Tech Meetup SOPA/PIPA protest Wednesday at Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand’s offices (Boing Boing)
   • 1/16 Lucas Shaw Wikipedia to Shut Down in Protest of SOPA (The Wrap)
   • 1/16 Craigslist about > SOPA – many links
   • 1/17 Mitchell Baker PIPA/SOPA and Why You Should Care (Mozilla Foundation)
   • 1/17 Jeanette Mulvey Wikipedia Blackout Brings SOPA/PIPA to Forefront for Business (BusinessNewsDaily)
   • 1/17 Declan McCullagh and Greg Sandoval Google will protest SOPA using popular home page (CNET)
   • 1/18 Discussion What’s the Best Way to Protect Against Online Piracy? (NY Times)
   • 1/18 NY Times Online Piracy and Political Overreach
   • 1/18 Colbert Report SOPA-PIPA
   • 1/18 The Pirate Bay Press Release
   • 1/18 Jamie Lee Curtis Taete PIPA SUPPORTERS VIOLATE COPYRIGHT LAWS, TOO (Vice)
   • 1/19 David Pogue Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA (NY Times)
   • 1/19 Sam Laird Mitt Romney: SOPA is a Threat to Freedom of Speech (Mashable)
   • 1/19 Jenna Wortham Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling (NY Times)
     1/19 Michael Cieply and Edward Wyatt Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet
   • 1/20 Clay Shirky Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood
   • 1/20 US Senate Democrats Reid Statement On Intellectual Property Bill
   • 1/20 US House of Representatives Statement from Chairman Smith on Senate Delay of Vote on PROTECT IP Act
   • 1/20 Jonathan Weisman After an Online Firestorm, Congress Shelves Antipiracy Bills (NY Times)
   • 1/20 Carl Franzen How The Web Killed SOPA and PIPA (TPM)
   • 1/21 Fred Wilson A Post-PIPA Post
   • 1/22 Brian McFadden Potential PIPA/SOPA Revisions (NY Times)
   • 1/22 Washington Post Megaupload shows online copyright protection is needed
   • 1/23 Timothy B. Lee If the feds can shut down Megaupload, why do we need SOPA? (Ars Technica)
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   • 1/18 Clay Shirky:
     
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3. * 1/20 Chuck Schumer facebook update:

   I say to New York’s tech community: we have heard you. Senator Reid’s decision to pull a vote on PIPA from the Senate calendar is the right one and will allow Congress to work with stakeholders to craft a better solution that protects against piracy and doesn’t do anything to damage our dynamic tech community or freedom of expression on the Internet. I am hopeful that both sides of this debate will come together to find a consensus solution that protects American jobs threatened by illegal piracy and at the same time encourages the growth of New York’s vibrant and growing technology and Internet communities.

   *1/20 Kirsten Gillibrand facebook update:

   Whether passing the 9/11 Health Bill, repealing DADT, or my call to action for women, I have always urged New Yorkers to make their voices heard. There has been an outpouring of democracy in action over the last several weeks on PIPA & SOPA. While many of my colleagues and I have worked hard to address concerns with the current bill, it is clear this proposal will not create consensus on how to crack down on the real problem of online theft that threatens tens of thousands of New York jobs in a balanced way that ensures our tech companies will continue to flourish. It is time for Congress to take a step back and start over with both sides bringing their solutions to the table to find common ground towards solving this problem. New talks between stakeholders — media companies, music and film companies, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley here in New York is a critically needed step forward. Make no mistake, we must act to protect the theft of intellectual property that costs our economy billions in revenue — but we must get it right without unintended consequences that could stifle the internet.

4. * 1/20 Vadim Antonov writes:

   That’s the dirty secret behind all that PIPA/SOPA lawmaking – as it stands now, as long as file sharing services refrain from *publishing* the material (as opposed to merely storing it and allowing the rightful owner(s) to download it – but without any obligation to actually verify that the posession of ownership rights) and have a procedure for dealing with takedowns they are in the clear, legally.

   This places the burden of finding infringing content and proving infringement to the copyright holders. They cannot efficiently do that, and so they want to off-load that burden to the user content hosters.

   The less charitable interpretation is that PIPA/SOPA is a massive shakedown attempt by Hollywood; by basically threatening to shut down social networks and user-generated content hosters they’ll be able to hold hostage the business of some very wealthy companies. If the law passes, these large companies will have to come to terms with Hollywood and music industry by means of purchasing blanket licenses (it is impossible to monitor all user content for copyright violations), resulting in transfer of billions of dollars from high-tech to Hollywood.

   The worst part is that companies like Google and Facebook may end up seeing PIPA/SOPA or future bills of the same nature as beneficial to them – after all, they already have enough money to pay copyright extortionists off, but their upstart competitors won’t be able to get into the field at all. Paying a portion of their income in exchange for exclusion of future competition may be looked at as a good bargain, without negative P.R. normally associated with explicit attempts to cartelize.

   –vadim

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