Sunday, April 08, 2012

A SOPA warning. It will not die a deserved natural death. Unnatural politics favor a reinvasion. Give the Senator-Lobbyist a learning curve. And a swift kick.



ArsTechnica, here:

Christopher Dodd, the former Connecticut senator who now leads the Motion Picture Association of America, hasn't given up on his dream of censoring the Internet. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, he said that Hollywood and the technology industry "need to come to an understanding" about new copyright legislation.

Dodd said that there were "conversations going on now," about SOPA-style legislation, but that he was "not going to go into more detail because obviously if I do, it becomes counterproductive."

Asked whether the White House's decision to oppose SOPA had created tensions with Hollywood, Dodd insisted that he was "not going to revisit the events of last winter," but said he hoped the president would use his "good relationships" with both Hollywood and the technology industry to broker a deal.

Dodd insisted that the timing of the federal government's Megaupload raid, which occurred the day after the Internet's anti-SOPA blackout, was a coincidence. [...]

In an e-mailed statement, Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn criticized Dodd's comments. "It is simply amazing that a mere two months after 14 million people voiced their opposition to SOPA and PIPA, that the head of the Motion Picture Association of America said the dreadfully flawed legislation could be reworked in the back rooms of Washington," she said.

Links omitted. Beginning paragraphs only were excerpted. Again, here, for the entire account (including MPAA hedging around).