SOPA & PIPA Pirate Song .MP3 from the album New Found Sound
eye, eye, matie.
shiver me timbers.
yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum.
what do you do with a drunken sailor?
shave his belly with a rusty razor!
If you go to Wikipedia.org today, you get a black page asking you to protest. If you go to Google today, you will find their logo blacked-out and a plea to protest.
What has Internet intellectuals all in an up-roar?
New Congressional legislation, known as the Protect I P Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.
The law would censor the Web.
Please, tell Congress — Don’t censor the Web
P I P A: This Act may be cited as the “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011” or the “PROTECT I P Act of 2011.”
The term “Internet site” means the collection of digital assets, including links, indexes, or pointers to digital assets, accessible through the Internet that are addressed relative to a common domain name.
S O P A: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the “Stop Online Piracy Act.”
eye, eye, matie.
shiver me timbers.
yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum.
what do you do with a drunken sailor?
shave his belly with a rusty razor!
FIRST AMENDMENT — nothing in this Act shall be construed to impose a prior restraint on free speech or the press protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
INTERNET ADVERTISING SERVICES —
(i) REQUIRED ACTIONS — An Internet advertising service that contracts to proVide advertising to or for the foreign infringing site, or portion thereof, that is subject to the order, or that knowingly serves advertising to or for such site or such portion thereof, shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures….
(II) cease making available advertisements for the foreign infringing site or such portion thereof, or paid or sponsored search results, links, or other placements that provide access to such foreign infringing site or such portion thereof;
and
(III) cease providing or receiving any compensation for advertising or related services to, from, or in connection with such foreign infringing site or such portion thereof.
eye, eye, matie.
shiver me timbers.
yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum.
what do you do with a drunken sailor?
shave his belly with a rusty razor!
by Daniel Brouse
MORE INFORMATION
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#SOPA #PIPA Internet Publishing Laws
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