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SilverBoat -> RE: English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout (1/19/2012 6:08:23 AM)
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I think SOPA, as it was written so far, had too much potential for censorship that could be abused for political purposes by authoritarian (religious, conservative, merchantile, etc) groups. And the last I read about support for the bills, Obama's admin planned to veto the current forms.
That said, I'm also of the opinion that current privacy laws don't go far enough, that current copyright laws have ridiculous provisions, and even (at risk of angering people whose creative skills rate higher in their own minds than others') that the social paradigms about earning a living via 'artistic' ideas can have an aspect of 'entitlement' that parallels the financiers' ugliness. And then there's the whole constitutional thing, and whether persons (corporations, heirs, etc) deserve 75 years of 'copyright' profits.
Maybe the whole mess should start from another basis, the street-performers' metric: People pay the performers what they think the art deserves. And as much as I've heard specious arguments that cultures 'need' art, civilizations need work too. So if people aren't buying a person's self-defined 'creative' efforts, that person should be putting in some sweat at tasks that do earn some sheckels.
Yeah, I know that might p.o. some folks, but it's a consistent point of view. How much of modern 'popular' art, music, writing, etc is herd-mentality cult-of-personality profiteering to tried-n-true formulaic promotions, and not really all that creative? Monkeys, raccoons and crows exhibit fascination with shiny noisy objects too ... Just sayin ...
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