Web Blackout Today

Three Cheers for the Protests going out over House and Senat Bills: House -H.R. 3261 Senate Bill "S. 968"  beng called "Stop Online Piracy Act".    This is as much insanity as the recent extension of the Copyright act that was put forth a few years ago because the Disney company wanted a perpetual copyright on Mickey Mouse.  What about Gutenberg?  Shouldn't his descendants be getting both Patent and Copyright licenses for all that has followed?

Online piracy is certainly and issue and copyrights should be respected for a reasonable amount of time.  However the way this culture is going we will need a certified approval to make a blog posting, much less come out with a new product, web site or god forbid, maybe consider offering print reproductions of the old masters.

This country is not owned by the Music and Film Industries and we should not act like it is.  Get out and go paddling and remember what is important.

If the Logo Goes Black here later today this would be part of the reason.

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