Met with Nancy Pelosi on SOPA - went well

[Carlos A. Afonso]

The issues involved are highly complex, I agree with Jorge that the best
solution is to get rid of all SOPA/PIPA-like bills of law which are
usually written by politicians' staff at the request of business lobbies
who themselves seem not to understand all implications.

I strongly recommend the several articles on the technicalities (by
Vixie and others, besides the experts' manifesto signed by Crocker et
alia) which you can easily find in the CircleID portal.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 01/13/2012 02:01 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>> 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.
>
> A substantial amount of smart people have been working for ages around
> the globe to reduce piracy and overall crime in meatspace, assuming
> that a complex problem can be  solved just by legislation and not a
> paradigm and business model change will be a bad start.
>
> SOPA's approach is like trying to reduce crime in meatspace by
> removing the street names from street signs.
>
> IMHO there is no simple solution and for sure can't be done just by
> legislation and law enforcement, much less when the process is biased
> with campaign contributions.
>
> -J
>