Comments on: Senators behind PIPA are a bunch of copyright infringers

By: Dummy00001

Dummy00001 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:39:00 +0000

But look at all this in positive light: were are given the opportunity to finally shutdown the Twitter for good! Because they assist in illegal image distribution no less!!

;)

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:13:00 +0000

Crazy thing is, i think most US politicians are lawyers by education.

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:11:00 +0000

Someone is clearly using 1984 as a road map, not a warning.

By: davidasposted

davidasposted — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:31:00 +0000

We already know that nearly all Congresspersons are hypocrites. Publicly outing them as hypocrites no longer has a tangible effect on their behavior or our already low perceptions of them. If you find an example of infringing content, use the DMCA to shut them down when possible, and/or sue them.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

True. I don’t mean to defend all his actions, especially whoever ganked that image in the first place. I just thought it might not be fair to characterize him as “attempt[ing] to cover his tracks” when he removed the image.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Now that is one Kafkaesque piece of insight, well done!

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:26:00 +0000

If he’s worried enough about copyright infringement to sponsor a draconian anti-copyright bill with the capacity for enormously disruptive unintended consequences then one would think he’d be worried enough to hire someone to do due diligence on his own media.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:25:00 +0000

Stop pointing this stuff out and start CHARGING THEM and LITIGATING AGAINST THEM.

Come on people, make the hypocrisy a permanent public record. These are powerful people screwing you over, do something about it!

By: MrsBug

MrsBug — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:14:00 +0000

Hey, BBNinja, you'll like this: Patrick has an idea

By: Zhasu

Zhasu — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:10:00 +0000

As my buddy said the other day: “I would like them to pass this bill, so a new , “rogue”, web will be created, because there will be a demand for it. We will be able to move on with our lives then, and possibly have the internet the way it was in 1996.”

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:10:00 +0000

For most of us, but the ignorants in D.C. usually put themselves outside of their laws altogether.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-14/politics/30396448_1_stock-market-market-moving-information-trades

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000

This is the problem. All these idiots trying to foist this legislation and turn the internet into Iran have absolutely NO F@#$ING CLUE about what they’re talking about or proposing. I could pick any random 10 year old who would probably know more about the internet than our “elected officials”.

By: usuallyconfused

usuallyconfused — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:40:00 +0000

How wonderful that the first thing I see on my first post-blackout trip back to boingboing is a picture of my own Senator as an infringer. Not to mention that my *other* Senator turns out to be an infringer as well…….

Deidzoeb – it sounds like you are ready to give these esteemed lawmakers the benefit of a doubt – which is *exactly* what the bill they support would eliminate for other “unintentional infringers”.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Well. No one can accuse them of prejudice then can they?

By: Micah Braden

Micah Braden — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Ignorance is not an excuse, according to the law.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0000

“Roy has since changed the background on his Twitter in an attempt to cover his tracks.”
To be fair, he might be trying to stop the infringement as soon as he found out about it, not just covering his tracks. Assuming he infringed out of ignorance, or some ghost-writing underling in charge of his Twitter acct posted it without his knowledge.

By: Graysmith

Graysmith — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Hey kids, guess what you have to study to become a politician?
That’s right, nothing! You can be a politician and not know a single thing about anything. Including the internet and copyright laws!

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0000

What I love about this is that SOPA and PIPA would do nothing to these guys, but would bring us down for posting this link to their infraction.

By: themeparkthemepark

themeparkthemepark — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000

D’OH is right, Sherrod Brown!

By: mtdna

mtdna — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0000

It looks like a beautiful picture – too bad about the ugly crap covering it up.

By: Lee Leslie

Lee Leslie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:21:00 +0000

Not that Roy Blunt isnt always deserving of scorn, but at least he did remove his support from SOPA/PIPA yesterday.