Say NO to SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN!

Say NO to SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN!
Quoth I the Tao te Ching:
Portion of Ch 3
If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.

Part of Ch 81
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others,
the happier he is.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.

Part of Ch 19
Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won't be any thieves.

If these three aren't enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course.

These 'bills' (pun : something you have to _PAY FOR_) are showing how extreme that these whore corporations have gone with their attempts to strip content 'owners' of their 'rights.'

Every law creates a new criminal. Get rid of the laws and then everyone will be happier! The answer is to get rid of copyright. This way the corporations cannot hold sway over the person who buys their material. If I buy toilet paper, I can use it to wipe my backside--- and i can also light it on fire with no restrictions as to what I can do with it. Similarly, if I buy a book or movie from one of the whore companies that support themselves and not the content producers or users, according to 'law' I can't copy or share legally. The copyright is outdated and ineffective. What needs to be done is to offer means of affordable and decent compensation to the original authors while they remain alive.

The law to end all laws is the ultimate achievement of mankind. (Like the E=MC^2 of free motion)
I recommend writing up a law, called the law of (computational) freedom.
The law of freedom is simple. You can do anything (in (any) including analog or digital form) with whatever content without restriction for any reason.

This law also nullifies all laws, restrictions, and copyrights and patents placed on content (media) and technology in hardware and software form.

This poses a challenge of technological innovation.

Transparency and open flow of all information is crucial to the survival of mankind and it's works.

Nobody has or 'should' have the 'right' to call something their intellectual property-- everything in this universe gets inherited-- like DNA. Nobody should have the right to call something their own even-- every work that is made belongs to the collective humanity. Do I own the semen of my dad and the egg of my mom, or am I a product of them? Yes, we recombine our unique perspectives and experiences to generate some type of novel output. Something can remain in temporary proprietorship until the period of one's death, but then it is recycled back into collective humanity-- even if inherited by son or daughter (and so on...)-- eventually it returns again to humanity or to the elements. It is due partially to the limited scope of human thought about compensation for contributions and reasons for creating (being limited to media whore fame and money) that we have raised up media giants instead of the individual artists. It is also because a decade ago we didn't have technology in which they, the individual artists, had a voice outside of these major media outlets. We should ban these media mega-corporations and their slavish monopoly over what we see and hear through modernly acceptable TVs. Their time and purpose has been served (it has come to an end) and now something better is available and they want control over it. Every artist's dream is to share his or her unique skills and talents, be valued and appreciated and maybe even famous-- to be able to live a good, long term, sustainable existence by the means of sharing of their creative energies. With the internet, people can donate whatever they feel appropriate to such individuals online if they appreciate the work.

I mean televison and radio signals are being beamed through our bodies all day long. We should make them pay us to watch instead of us paying them!

These mega media giants squash the opportunities for people such as you and I to produce music and be heard. They silence smaller companies by blasting their loud music and videos in front of us at all major retail outlets-- to be honest imho-- quit buying and selling (transacting business) with these companies so they have no money to squelch us. They prey on the stupidity of buyers so their movies are intentionally produced to dumb the constomers down and compel us to be addicted to their content. Caveat emptor. The internet is a place where people can start to have a voice and be heard and get everything that a major retail outlet can give to a musician or actor for practically nothing. They, the amalgamate media whore industries, brainwash people through media to push motions and agendas that we may only be aware of on a subliminal level. Their modeling wants us to be addicted, brainwashed along with our children, and children's children to be subject to buying from them.

The biggest threat to them is free media and internet where everyone has an equal voice. Though the companies be separate entities, they as a corporate entity have proven to be a monopoly-- big enough to lobby and sway the minds of the government and politicians to even consider constructing such evil legislation ('powers' which a government should not have to begin with -- to have control over media which can contradict their interest.) People should have the power, not the government-- governments, too have outlived their purpose and function for instead of serving humanity which sustains them, they abuse these powers and have a tendency to maintain their own existence at the expense of the bottom of the pyramid whom they manipulate and poison in various ways to dumb down and enslave. It is wise to not forget that the top of a pyramid structure is sustained by the lower portions-- and that if the lower portions crumble.. so too does the top. Everything is interdependent.

Don't buy or watch things from Disney, Universal Pictures, and other media outlets. Put them out of business! Quit paying for companies that don't care about 'artists being compensated more than themselves' or your own well being-- the 'consumer' as they might call us.

What people need is a new motivation to participate in generating content outside of (only) 'money'

Now we can have it.
The inscentive for creativity is to be remembered in the archives of future humanity. Even if we don't own our thoughts and ideas, but are temporary stewards of these energies... Our unique contributions can be found and subjectively appreciated by generations to come.

With the knowledge that you can secure a long-lasting to eternal legacy of having contributed to humanity in some way, being remembered in the digital multiverse may be a good transition for the motivation to produce content. In the age of digital content preservation, fame (and donations i.e. people can pay what they can afford rather than having to pay a media giant as an intermediary) might be a key influential factor in terms of reason to contribute art, movies, music, software and creative endeavors.

Look at the free and open source software community and how it has expanded in such a way that free software is being used to replace all of the proprietary software created by major corporations. It threatens their existence if they can no longer be kept by their precious money. Many of these free software creators are extremely successful and with the support from people who donate they receive more than enough to make sure that the people involved are sustained. Free software has changed our internet by providing alternatives to proprietary software and media. There may even be more free software available online than there is 'paid/proprietary' software. The internet itself is a threat to less-than-necssary evil, self interested media companies. They want control over it. Don't submit to being their slave any longer-- burn all DVDs, movies, music that you bought from them. Don't buy from itunes or snakey companies like apple.

If humanity as a collective entity decided to create a computer that would secure all the history, data and knowledge of human kind we wouldn't have much content to show the future generations of what kind of people and culture we lived if anything like these bills pass.

LET NO LAW BE THE LAW