“ Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”
MPAA head (and former U.S. Senator) Chris Dodd speaking to Fox News (as noted by Hillicon Valley).
I mean, he actually said this.
In one soundbite, he’s both threatening any and all U.S. politicians and implying that they’re corruptible. It’s a statement that so egregious, it’s hard to think of anything worse he could have said. Maybe: “if these guys don’t start supporting whatever we say, I’m going to hire some goons to fucking kneecap the bastards”.
But actually, that’s not worse. Because that doesn’t imply the politicians accept bribes (in the form of lobbying money) to support issues.
This is much, much worse than Dodd’s assclownish statement the other day. And it also shows that Dodd really, truly does not understand what’s going on — why people are so upset about these bills and the subsequent reaction to them, as Mike Masnick lays out perfectly.
Amazingly, this discussion is morphing beyond the destruction of the fabric of the Internet and into the underlying notion that our political system is fundamentally corrupt.
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Early Bird Special: Oldie but goodie — graphic designer Aaron Draplin uses strong language to explain why America is f*cked (graphically, at least).
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites— they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
TYRANNOSAURUS BATS! Now available as an 8” x 10” color indigo-process print. Perfect for that hard-to-shop-for superhero with a taste for expensive robot dinosaur sidekicks!
Nice!
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The New Movement New Orleans is doing 19 shows in 19 days to promote comedy awareness. Tell you friends, tell your family. Do not miss.
J & J Automotive, making cool shit for cool ass people.
My friend James made this soulful cover of Drowning Pool’s “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”.
It’s the greatest thing ever and you should listen to it.
hoooooooly shit. mind officially blown!
no fucking way
yes fucking way!
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/pop-pop-magnitude-meet-luke-youngblood-community
I have to give him credit for finding this out for me. We’re so late, but damn…this Community/Harry Potter connection makes my heart explode.
