Met with Nancy Pelosi on SOPA - went well

[Sarah El Ebiary]

That sounds great, Marc!

I'm all in. My livelihood and career depend on the commercial exchange of
intellectual property, but the entire Internet community, our privacy, and
civil liberties should not have to suffer in order to protect some
copyright owners from having their content usurped by online
consumers/distributors.



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Marc Perkel <marc at churchofreality.org>wrote:

> I have good news to report. I had an interesting day today. I met with
> Nancy Pelosi today and talked about SOPA. She indicated that she was no fan
> of SOPA and thought it probably wouldn't pass. She did say however the IP
> is a real problem and that something needed to be done.
>
> I told her the I can come up with an alternative and I told her that if
> she opposes SOPA that I would write a technical spec for something that
> actually would work and not break the Internet. She was VERY interested and
> she made sure that her assistant exchanged cards with me.
>
> I actually have an idea. I've been working on this for years and I will
> write it up but not right away. But I want to put the challenge out there.
> What can we come up with that is better than SOPA and doesn't involve
> compromising our civil liberties values?
>
> Just wondering if some one of you will come up with the same idea I'm
> thinking of. And - I do think that we should put something reasonable on
> the table. And I think that the problem can be solved and we can solve it -
> before they solve it for us.
>
> Ideas?
>
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