Black March Still On

Dear People,
     In spite of (or perhaps partially because of) outcries by MIPAA and RIAA that all the hullabaloo is not about censorship but rather about ripped content on the Internet, the Black March is still on.  In the past week or so, I've read through a lot of stuff on the net both for and against the Black March Boycott.  Since corporate Hollywood is now trying to rewrite the issue more to its' profit lines, I figure that the boycott will have an effect on the bottom line.  I believe the figures of loss that they often use (and quoted by the FBI as well as by Lamar Smith and other politicians) are inflated to say the least.

     Two ISPs in the Netherlands were ordered to block access to Pirate Bay, some folks in Hawaii endeavored to shut down public television stations there and fought against a law that would have required their ISPs to keep notes on where folks went on the web (for "crime" of course), and there is a movement to get Google to either de-list or lower rank of P2P websites and those sites which link to them.
     When I was a kid (oh yeah I was one of them once) I used to tape songs off the radio.  Nowadays a video on UTube of a preschooler singing along with a song playing on the radio in the background as she plays with her dolls is removed for copyright infringement.  Cripes.  Give me a break.
     So people can say all of this is about "crime," "pirates," "save-the-children," "Internet Terrorism," all they want to.  I support Black March and furthermore, I support Anonymous.  Anonymous has been instrumental in getting the word out about the unrest in Europe over ACTA and are fighting the foes of Net Neutrality.  
     To be clear, I am no hacker.  I lack the skills to do so even if I wanted to.  Furthermore, I am for peaceable assembly of the people without violence.  What skills I do have are in the area of writing, research, reporting, and making graphic art from my photographs. A war must be fought on all fronts.  We need Anonymous just as we need the suits that go in to speak with the politicians just as we need the Black March boycotters just as we need the Occupy protesters and the tweeterers and the bloggers.






sapphoq review says: These are scary times that we are living in.  Now is not the moment to hide in our fear.  I will not live in fear.  Now is the moment to act.  Now is the moment to be brave, be very brave.




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