Petition Congress: Protect the Internet for Innovators!
source: http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_sopa_reddit/?source=link-typ&referring_akid=60...
Big corporations that fear Internet innovators are lobbying Congress to pass a bill that would prevent sites like reddit, YouTube, Google, or Bit.ly from ever getting off the ground.
A key vote is happening in the House this week! This isn't a battle of right vs. left. It's a battle of old vs. new.
Sign the reddit/PCCC petition to Congress. -->
PETITION TO CONGRESS: Don’t let big corporations use lobbyists and government regulations to block innovators from inventing the next reddit, YouTube, or Google. Protect free speech and innovation online.
After you sign, you'll receive email action alerts from PCCC -- including an urgent email within the next 24 hours with your representative's number and a script. Your action will make a huge difference.
BACKGROUND:
YouTube started as a project in a garage. If a big company like Viacom thought a video violated copyright law, Viacom couldn't stop YouTube's site from working. Viacom couldn't break YouTube's links. Viacom couldn't force the kids who invented YouTube to spend millions in court that they didn't have.
Instead, under the law, Viacom would have to contact YouTube, make the case, and allow YouTube to decide if the case had merit. YouTube had a "safe harbor" of time to voluntarily take infringing video down. And if Viacom's case didn't have merit, YouTube had the option of engaging in a more lengthy/costly legal battle.
Because of this due process, investors in YouTube knew that big corporations couldn't litigate YouTube to death. This allowed innovation to thrive.
If the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (aka SOPA and Protect-IP Act) passes Congress, all of this would change. Innovative sites would be taken down by others without due process -- like what happens in China. That's why the founders of reddit, Google, eBay, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and others are fighting this bill
Join the fight -- sign the petition on the right.
A key vote is happening in the House this week! This isn't a battle of right vs. left. It's a battle of old vs. new.
Sign the reddit/PCCC petition to Congress. -->
PETITION TO CONGRESS: Don’t let big corporations use lobbyists and government regulations to block innovators from inventing the next reddit, YouTube, or Google. Protect free speech and innovation online.
After you sign, you'll receive email action alerts from PCCC -- including an urgent email within the next 24 hours with your representative's number and a script. Your action will make a huge difference.
BACKGROUND:
YouTube started as a project in a garage. If a big company like Viacom thought a video violated copyright law, Viacom couldn't stop YouTube's site from working. Viacom couldn't break YouTube's links. Viacom couldn't force the kids who invented YouTube to spend millions in court that they didn't have.
Instead, under the law, Viacom would have to contact YouTube, make the case, and allow YouTube to decide if the case had merit. YouTube had a "safe harbor" of time to voluntarily take infringing video down. And if Viacom's case didn't have merit, YouTube had the option of engaging in a more lengthy/costly legal battle.
Because of this due process, investors in YouTube knew that big corporations couldn't litigate YouTube to death. This allowed innovation to thrive.
If the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (aka SOPA and Protect-IP Act) passes Congress, all of this would change. Innovative sites would be taken down by others without due process -- like what happens in China. That's why the founders of reddit, Google, eBay, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and others are fighting this bill
Join the fight -- sign the petition on the right.
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