Does anyone know what DPs stance is on SOPA, for or against? Will forums like this survive the legislation?
I don't think it will have a major effect on Digitalpoint. Its more for television, movies, music, and big companies like sony from what I gathered. I could be wrong though.
Also writers, directors, film producers, actors, musicians, screenwriters, book authors, and anyone else who produces published works for a living. It's about getting paid for the work you do. SOPA protestors want to be able to download anything they want without paying for it because they think the web should be free and unfettered while ignoring those people who produced the work in order to feed their family. While some will point to the large industries and companies who make a lot of cash off those works, they ignore the fact that it is still the individual who created the work that gets paid in the end, either by that large corporation or very small ones and even self-publishing. While SOPA may need more thinking and advice applied to it, its heart is in the right place. I've not read anyone who considers any of that.
I am certainly against piracy as I think plenty of us are, in fact enough of us types should guarantee a decent income for creators. It seems to be the companies that make squillions are the one's fighting hardest for it. Personally the stuff I create you can do what you want with it but from what I understand, it would stop people posting quotes from newspapers and stuff we do all the time. I think quoting newspaper stories and providing a source link actually generates more $ for them as often we then go on to read other pages of the site, add to our faves and return, where we wouldn't do so otherwise. It also means DP for instance would disappear if just 1 page out of the 1,000,000+ pages had content deemed copyright by a complainant. All forums like this would need to hire someone to constantly watch for any slight breach and remove it or face removal from the web. Seems to me that would certainly turn the web into a consumption-only, rather than participatory medium where people can't afford to run forums so they will disappear over a relatively short period of time. Talk about trying to swat a mosquito with an A-bomb.
Shawn has just stated DPs stance on this. While DP did not participate in a complete blackout, many others did. Here is a list of sites with screenshots of their homepages who participated in SOPA blackout.
this isn't the real list at all. my site is also listed as like the rest we participated. the list goes on and on in sopastrike.com
Well, of course 10,000+ sites joined I know..The article includes about 10 very well known sites and their messages.
I think you the owner will be responsible for every single item on this site, ain't it kind of hard to moderate a large site like this by then?
It would not and would be treated the same as when books/magazines/newspapers quote other sources. It's not defined, and is part of the problem, but sites would need to be provided a takedown notice and wouldn't be switched off without one. The site owner would have to ignore or defy the notice before action would be taken against them.
No, it is not because if the site is larger than you are making enough money to hire out plenty of help. If a local business under staffs then the business will suffer and turn to crap. Why should a site be any different?