Blocking websites blocks speech. Speech is generally defined pretty broadly in the American court system and this seems pretty clear cut. If you can't censor music or stop people from wearing certain clothes then I think blocking websites looks a lot like censorship of speech that should be free.
IANAL, but I think (and hope) there would be legal challenges to a law like this.
Rose said the MPA’s requested law would be similar to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was shelved after major protests over a decade ago.
Further, most organization was done on reddit. Reddit itself has a lot less investment in the issue than they did previously. Doubtful they would help support a sitewide protest about it, either.
Who the fuck even goes to a website to pirate anything these days? Go ahead and ban the entire www it will do nothing to stop piracy and only further ruin the internet.
Studios have exclusive rights to their respective works for 2 years, after which time they are required to license it to their competitors for “at cost” fees, similar to pole easements for cable/electric companies.
Public Domain is reverted to 25 years after publishing
Fan Fiction is added as a “free use” exception
If we had better politicians, these threats from the MPAA would amount to just whining.
I demand the movie industry delivers Scarlett Johansson to my room striped and covered in melted butter, but it looks like none of us are going home happy today.
I suppose that once you have laws that allow blocking one type of site then other sites will be pretty easy to be added. A precedent sort of thing. Done once then others will follow.
Pretty amazing that piracy is such a hot topic such that freedoms can be curtailed but everyone’s right to an AR15 must be protected.
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