Hi,

I have been out of the loop and just did some quick skimming of SOPA/PIPA to
see what all the fuss was about. PIPA seems a little vague, but SOPA seems
pretty straight forward, stop piracy of copyrighted materials. I don't
understand what is wrong with that?

Thanks,

Jeff Burcher - IT Dept
Allred Metal Stamping
PO Box 2566
High Point, NC 27261
(336)886-5221 x229
j...@allredmetal.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Craig [mailto:kris.cr...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:40 PM
> To: Ferenc Kovacs
> Cc: Daniel Brown; php-webmas...@lists.php.net; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP] The Cat Signal
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 2012.07.19. 20:21, "Daniel Brown" <danbr...@php.net> ezt írta:
> >
> > >
> > >     Forwarding to php-webmas...@lists.php.net, as it's not a
> > > "general user" issue where it pertains to php.net.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I just became aware of this:
> > > >
> > > > http://internetdefenseleague.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It's a site setup by Mozilla, Reddit, and others to defend
> > > > internet
> > freedom
> > > > in the wake of recent legislative events in the U.S. and elsewhere
> > (full
> > > > members list here:
> http://www.internetdefenseleague.org/members).
> > > >
> > > > They've setup what they're calling the "cat signal," an invisible
> > > > bit
> > of
> > > > embeddable code you can put in your website that will activate
> > > > (and
> > display
> > > > the afore-mentioned signal/link/etc) if/when the next
> > > > SOPA/PIPA/etc
> > comes
> > > > along that threatens the open internet.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to propose that we integrate this into the PHP website.
> > > > This issue directly affects our community and we already staked a
> > > > claim in
> > this
> > > > fight when we participated in the last great blackout.
> > > >
> > > > In addition, I'd also l ike to propose that we officially join
> > > > this
> > group
> > > > as a member.  I'm not sure if we'd do this by vote or something
> > similar to
> > > > the RFC process & etc, but if you'll grant me permission, I'd be
> > > > happy
> > to
> > > > do the legwork on this myself (make the HTML edits, contact the
> > > > organization on PHP's behalf, etc).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > --Kris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > </Daniel P. Brown>
> > > Network Infrastructure Manager
> > > http://www.php.net/
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> >
> >  Btw. we were asked by the to join the league as we were a big traffic
> > source on the black out day.
> > I don't know if Rasmus is on the webmaster list or not, but we should
> > cc him, as he was the driving force behind us joining the anti SOPA
> movement.
> >
> I heard back from the webmaster saying that we're already participating
with
> the cat signal on our website.  Given this and no objections, I went ahead
and
> contacted them and asked that they list us on their participating members
> page.
> 
> --Kris



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