SOPA Strike January 18 – Where’s the News Coverage?
The fact that Wikipedia, one of the biggest sites on the internet is going to SHUT DOWN, and it is getting ridiculously low coverage by mainstream media (excluding Forbes) is appalling. Hopefully Google’s censored logo creates some buzz on January 18, but it doesn’t seem like it considering the coverage thus far. At least not from mainstream media (unless the insatiable Rupert Murdoch puts forth another pathetic attempt to lie about Google).
Movie/TV/Music idea: Let’s remake what was successful before!
Big TV, Big Movies, and Big Music is used to running the United States and controlling what is said, heard, and watched. But their time is up. The hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the former big three industry members on lobbying in Washington will all just be a gigantic waste of money. Just like the waste of $30 it takes to go to a movie that was a remake of an original screenplay from the ’50s. Or a hip-hop song whose baseline was taken from a song in the ’60s (isn’t that about 80% of the songs on “Today’s Biggest Hits”?!).
**By the way, I went to go search for songs as examples and got a Wikipedia link, which is obviously down tonight going into tomorrow. So I can’t give examples and you’ll just have to trust me that they exist 
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It’s old media, and it’s inhibiting
The TV, movie and music industry put such constraints on themselves that absolutely noone was able to come up with another way of doing anything. They not only completely stifled their industry, they stifled many (not all, but many) writers, producers, directors, actors and musicians.
Then they tried forcing the same suffocating principles on the technology industry, which just isn’t going to happen.
I’ll rant off tangent for a minute: It’s seriously laughable they think they still have a stranglehold on the United States. For years they were able to control everything, including many Americans’ perception of them and the laws they pay lobbyists to help push through. I saw a quote where former US Senator turned current CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Chris Dodd explained that ‘intellectual property supported 2.2 million people’, which would be less than 1% of the entire US population (I think we’re around 310+ million off the top of my head).
For comparison’s sake, I would love for Mr. Dodd to let me and the American public know how many jobs the technology industry employs. I’m not saying any of the technology companies are perfect, but to try to sneak a bill through that was brought into congress because of hundreds of millions of dollars spent on lobbying on a bill that is so one-sided, many people think it’s a joke when they first hear about it? Not yet anyway.
Thank you Reddit.
The uprising that started on Reddit is a true testament to how the internet and technology folk work, and it just so happens to be the same thing the United States was founded on: Democracy.
It’s amazing how this has turned around, especially given the lack of media coverage. To be honest, I think this shows that we do not even need the traditional media. Go ahead, MPAA, take away movies – you just remake old ones anyway. Same with songs, RIAA – the classics are better than most of the crap we hear today, so feel free. And TV or books? Thank you, Apple and Google; and NetFlix and Amazon, I’ll watch/read yours instead.
News flash, old media: We don’t need your stinking coverage.
Take your bill and go home.
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