Met with Nancy Pelosi on SOPA - went well

[Marc Perkel]

I agree. I think we can do a win/win solution rather than compromise.
Let's come up with something.

On 1/12/2012 6:25 PM, Sarah El Ebiary wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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