My biggest difficulty with all of this is the causality link between piracy/counterfeiting and jobs/money loss. As far as I can tell, that link is an assertion of the biopharma industry, the RIAA, and the MPAA. The closest anyone has come is correlation between claims of the amount of piracy and industry losses. These ignore any other possible factors.
I met with two of Sen Udall's staffers last week and explained to them that the law, as written, would harm ordinary users, have unexpected collateral damage, is technically impossible to achieve, and would not survive contact with reality. They had received 35 calls that day in the ABQ office against the laws - many motivated by on-line antics such as Wikipedia's blackout. I pointed out the mutability of the Web by telling them they could read Wikipedia by the simple expedient of not accepting Wikipedia scripts - then the page shows up and the black out doesn't cover it. If any of you haven't read the laws, from a technical standpoint it is based on a layman's poor understanding of how the Web and Internet work. The most erroneous basic assumption is that web-sites are atomic entities - anyone who uses Firefox with noScript learns that's completely wrong. The second wrong assumption is that the web, and DNS, are static. The third wrong assumption is that web-sites are geo-stationary. On Jan 26, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Now here is Tom Udall's response: Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov<mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov> SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov<mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov<mailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov> (send NIPR reminder)
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