Texas Businesses Oppose Bill Combating Online Piracy
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, says online piracy is damaging the U.S. economy and putting American lives at risk. Foreign websites that distribute American-made entertainment and counterfeit products, such as fake pharmaceuticals, are “stealing our profits, they’re stealing our jobs and they may be endangering the health of Americans,” Smith said.
Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act in October to tackle the problem, but the bill has received a cold reception in his home state.
Texas-based technology companies and business advocates agree that cyber crimes are a problem, but they contend that Smith’s bill ...
Comments (9)
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Lamar Smith had stolen intellectual property on his own reelection website until the Houston Chronicle pointed out that he would have run afoul of his own bill.
gypsy314 ne
We have to start some were why not with this bill and tune it up a little.
Anyone but Obama!
Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama and illegal aliens , homosexuals and terrorist.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
I have it on good authority that gypsy314ne is actually head of a homosexual, terrorist sleeper cell who lied on his visa application and is using his apparent blind support for all things right wing as cover for his debauched terrorist activites.
Illegal Homosexual Terrorist
I'm here gypsy!!!
Samdavis
You never fail to disappoint Gypsy. Way to take hatred and bigotry to a new low.
An intelligent person recognizes this bill as an attempt to put restrictions on internet traffic. It's flying under a false flag of internet piracy but it's all about taking away freedom. Smith and others like him would like to control people's right to communicate. This is a bad bill just like Smith is a bad elected official. Hopefully there are enough intelligent elected officials in other states to keep this law off the books. Other than Ron Paul, who has no chance, any of the GOP candidates would sign a bill like this even if they didn't understand it.
Samdavis
He's Rick Perry's foreign-born love child.
gypsy314 ne
Durka Hans is available NOW since he can not keep secrets
Anyone but Obama!
Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama and illegal aliens , homosexuals and terrorist.
gypsy314 ne
Samdavis I thought you were dead. I guess speaking from the grave on the internet you have us all beat. Thanks for your kind words and have a bless day.
Anyone but Obama!
Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama and illegal aliens , homosexuals and terrorist.
John Byers
Another fine example of those that don't know anything about a subject or have any working knowledge of Information Security tries to make people believe they do. In the beginning software was distributed pretty much free or as we refer to it in the industry "OpenSouce", the cost came from installation and maintenance. Stopping online piracy is not a matter of writing some lame law; it's about education and security awareness. If we follow and look at where Smith has been funded from and where he and/or his family are invested in you will see why this bill is put forward. Following the money, it will tell you what is driving this type of stuff. Anything that infringes on the ability of people to free use the internet has some potential greed and money making schema attached to it that will ultimately hurt the people.
Back in the days you had stuff like AOL that you had to pay to access their site and they controlled where you could and what you couldn’t do. People like Smith made millions of dollars on that type of controlled internet access, then it all went away, and they are trying through any means possible to push everyone back into a controlled environment so that they can control what you read, where you go, and use that as a method of controlling people. I’m a republican, but, I believe in the rights of State and People above the Federal government rights in anything.
What to stop online piracy push and support Open Source software. The other is consumer education and security awareness, until that is understood all the other laws are useless and those that write them have agendas to line their pockets with your money.