SOPA and PIPA
SOPA and PIPA has created a pretty big reaction from the tech world.
I can see the media industry's frustration with people watching pirated movies and listening to pirated music. However, what make their position less admirable is the pile of money they sit on and the tactic they used. They basically took on the position that as long as they can best protect their wallet, they don't really care about anyone else. And they are slow to adapt new technologies.
The story just repeats itself, first when cassette tapes came out, music industry had a big problem, then VCR caused movie and TV industries to scream. Now they are at the internet. It bothers me that they never try to look at creating better product for their customer first, but always try to stop new technologies.
This reminded me of a movie I saw on how Chinese lost the advantage of movable type print to Korean after it was invented. Chinese official and business wanted to keep using the old way, even when the new method is much more efficient.
The biggest problem of the law is to give a government agency the power to block foreign sites. I think that is like the way how Chinese government would do it. Suprisingly some of the big mouth liberals supports SOPA, Al Franken, for example. I am glad Nanncy Palosie opposes it. It is actually evenly splited between on both sides, so this is not a partisan issue, rather this is about which representative gets support from the media industry.
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I can see the media industry's frustration with people watching pirated movies and listening to pirated music. However, what make their position less admirable is the pile of money they sit on and the tactic they used. They basically took on the position that as long as they can best protect their wallet, they don't really care about anyone else. And they are slow to adapt new technologies.
The story just repeats itself, first when cassette tapes came out, music industry had a big problem, then VCR caused movie and TV industries to scream. Now they are at the internet. It bothers me that they never try to look at creating better product for their customer first, but always try to stop new technologies.
This reminded me of a movie I saw on how Chinese lost the advantage of movable type print to Korean after it was invented. Chinese official and business wanted to keep using the old way, even when the new method is much more efficient.
The biggest problem of the law is to give a government agency the power to block foreign sites. I think that is like the way how Chinese government would do it. Suprisingly some of the big mouth liberals supports SOPA, Al Franken, for example. I am glad Nanncy Palosie opposes it. It is actually evenly splited between on both sides, so this is not a partisan issue, rather this is about which representative gets support from the media industry.
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posted by Mosquito at 8:44 下午
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