Here is your 1st Ammendment
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
October 31, 2011 6:59pm CST
The "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act - that's right, the PROTECT IP Act, and who thinks of these ridiculous names, anyway? - is a direct descendant of COICA with a couple of important changes. First, it allows for "private right of action," which means that not only the Attorney General but also "a rights holder who is the victim of the infringement" can pursue action in the courts against "the owner, registrant or internet site dedicated to infringement, whether domestic or foreign," and second, it will also force search engines to censor such sites out of their lists.
Censorship at its finest. I believe the internet has been so great because of your freedoms. I guess we won't have to worry about that anymore.
"Give a man an inch, and he thinks he is a ruler"
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
3 Nov 11
The term "Intellectual Theft" really resonated with me. I actually charged somebody with that once in a very minor sort of a wayand it felt really good.
It was on Ebay many years age. I'd listed a rare book of architecture and toward the end of the listing, I noticed that bids were falling off. Sure enough, someone else listed the same book. Well, it happens even on rare items but what set me off, is that the fool cut and pasted my entire description which was several paragrahs long and took a few hours to compose after skim reading the entire book (it was an expensive book and I presented it well).
Anyway, I was LIVID. Those were my thoughts and words and this guy just laid claim to them. I went to the Ebay site map and found out that I could notify them about stolen pics or descriptions. They called it "intellectual theft" and that was the first I'd heard of it. I filed a complaint. Ebay agreed with me and immediately removed the other guys listing.
I know this might sound silly but when you see somebody else just cut and paste something you worked hard on, it feels really good to have some recourse.
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