Many Representatives and Senators in the Congress of the United States do not know what the Net is. Let us tell Senators Schumer and Gillibrand what the Net is, and why they should withdraw their support for the MPAA RIAA written bills called SOPA, for Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, for Protect Intellectual Property Act.
The names of the proposed bills are not accurate. For information about what SOPA and PIPA would really do, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act [page was last modified on 17 January 2012 at 08:18] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173 We built the Net. Neither the MPAA nor the RIAA built the Net. And we will keep our Net. On Wednesday 18 January 2012, let us gather to speak with Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand at their offices at 780 Third Avenue between 48th Street and 49th Street, on the Island of the Manahattoes Our rally starts at noon. The New York City office telephone number of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is 212 688 6262, fax 866 824 6340. The Senator's website is at: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/ The New York City office telephone number of US Senator Charles Schumer is 212-486-4430, fax 212-486-7693, TDD 212-486-7803. The Senator's website is at: http://schumer.senate.gov/ Every telephone call in opposition to SOPA and PIPA counts. Already the other side has, in part, retreated. But we have not yet defeated the Englobulators on this front. Official Notice from NY Tech Meetup below. Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Rally for the Future of Tech X-URL: http://nytm.org/sos/ Emergency NY Tech Meetup Join Us to Stop PIPA and SOPA __________________________________________________________________ January 18, 2012 - 12:30 PM to 2 PM Outside the Offices of Senator Charles Schumer and Senator Kirstin Gillibrand 780 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 [marker.png] RSVP on Meetup __________________________________________________________________ What's happening? IFRAME: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3D780+3rd+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10003&ie=3D= UTF8&h q=3D&hnear=3D780+3rd+Ave,+New+York,+10017&t=3Dm&vpsrc=3D6&ll=3D40.754= 994,-73.9717 2&spn=3D0.007802,0.082312&z=3D18&output=3Dembed The future of the NY tech community is in jeopardy. The Internet and information technologies have created a renaissance in startup innovation in New York that now rivals Silicon Valley as a hub for economic growth. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been inspired = to become entrepreneurs creating thousands and thousands of new jobs and offering professionals in many of New York's traditional industries t= he opportunity to start new careers participating in the 21st century global economy. However, Congress is in the process of rushing through legislation which will not only severely damage the Internet as a marketplace and platform for entrepreneurship and open innovation, but will also seriously impact the ability of our New York tech community to contin= ue to generate jobs, grow and flourish. Within the next two weeks, the U= S Senate is planning to bring the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) S.968 to the floor for a series of votes to ensure its passage= =2E This legislation would give the government and corporations the abili= ty to censor the net in the name of protecting creativity simply by convincing a judge that a site is "dedicated" to copyright infringement. PIPA would give the government and corporations the ability to shut down any site connected to an accused copyright infringer. Its companion legislation in the House, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, contains many similar problems, as well as threatening ordinary users with jail for streaming any copyrighted work - even just video of themselves singing a pop song. More importantly, the legislation amounts to a wholesale re-engineeri= ng of the open web in a way that would allow the US government to prosecute Internet users without due process, which in turn would discourage innovation, limit investment, and hurt the our economic future. You can read and hear more about this dangerous and hurtful legislation here: FightForTheFuture.org/pipa or AmericanCensorship.or= g. As much as we agree that infringing on copyrighted material should be eliminated from the web as much as possible, the cure that is being proposed and championed by the lobbying power of major copyright holding organizations like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will create a cure that is much worse than the disease and irrevocabl= y damage the very nature of the internet and by extension, the future o= f New York. We believe it is imperative that we stop this bill from passage! Signed: Andrew Rasiej, Chairman -- @rasiej Scott Heiferman, Founder -- @heif Nate Westheimer, Executive Director -- @innonate Jessica Lawrence, Managing Director -- @jessicalawrence And the entire NY Tech Meetup Board -- @nytm Join Us When =BB Wednesday January 18, 2012 Time =BB 12:30 - 2:00 PM Where =BB 780 Third Ave (at 49th street) -- outside the offices of Ne= w York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. What to Bring =BB Your bodies and your minds, your co-workers, your friends, your family, and your social networks. Who Will Be There =BB Everyone who cares about the New York Tech Indu= stry and the future of the web. Special guest speakers to be announced. How To Sign Up =BB Please RSVP here to show your support. Tweet This =BB I'll be at the Emergency NY Tech Meetup on January 18 = to stop SOPA and PIPA. Join us: http://nytm.org/sos Hashtag =BB #nytmSOS Contact Us Please direct all inquiries to [email protected]. 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