(Jeff Fulton)

Even our Book Publisher is against SOPA and PIPA

O’Reilly, (our book publisher) is one of the many companies with intellectual property that would supposedly be “saved” by massively under-thought and over-protective SOPA and PIPA online Intellectual property bills, is going dark today (along with Wikipedia, and many other web sites) in protest over the bills.  This means that we will lose an entire day of revenue from on-line book sales when HTML5 is at its hottest point. And guess what? It’s worth to try and make a point to stop these bills.

These supposed protections would allow a nameless faceless government agency to kill any web site and take away all of its revenue if it is found to even have a single link to any site that might have some sort of copyright infringement.

This is NOT the way to stop piracy. Apple, Netflix, Amazon (and others) have shown great ways to stem the tide of piracy – by keeping prices reasonable, selection plentiful and not screwing customers (ok Netflix, I’m giving you a little credit from BEFORE summer 2011, but you seem to be coming around again).

STOP SOPA and PIPA!  This is coming from someone who makes his living off of his own intellectual property and the legal uses of other’s (for contract development purposes).

To quote an old NRA slogan. “If you OUTLAW web sites, only OUTLAWS will have Web Sites.”