I have no faith in the political system. The business sector, however, is profit-driven, and this will slam holes in profit sources, because although Netflix etc believes that OF COURSE they are not infringing and therefore THEY ARE SAFE, they're not paying attention to the actual wording they're trying to get passed. They want to believe that "this law will only be used to go after BAD GUYS" and that the core argument is whether Megaupload's owners are "bad guys," not whether the law can be used to go after people & companies that are not infringing at all, except that some wacko *believes* there's infringement going on.
From what I can sort out, this law could shut down Amazon and Ebay just as fast as Twitter and Facebook. And while a lot of businesses consider Twitter & FB nuisances, they don't want Google, Amazon, Ebay, Barnes & Noble, and Wordpress to shut down because some person or group filed a claim that said they don't check all incoming content for infringement. I don't trust that politicians will be inspired to fix the law--but businesses will be inspired to push them to repealing it ASAP.
I pretty much figure any law that can be used to shut down Google is not going to be enacted. It might get passed--but it's not going to be enforced. Because if Google really is willing to put their weight against this, it can mean "law goes live: Google replaces all their pages with an an announcement that they'll be checking all links for infringement before allowing searches; please be patient while we read the internet."
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Date: 2011-11-20 06:40 am (UTC)From what I can sort out, this law could shut down Amazon and Ebay just as fast as Twitter and Facebook. And while a lot of businesses consider Twitter & FB nuisances, they don't want Google, Amazon, Ebay, Barnes & Noble, and Wordpress to shut down because some person or group filed a claim that said they don't check all incoming content for infringement. I don't trust that politicians will be inspired to fix the law--but businesses will be inspired to push them to repealing it ASAP.
I pretty much figure any law that can be used to shut down Google is not going to be enacted. It might get passed--but it's not going to be enforced. Because if Google really is willing to put their weight against this, it can mean "law goes live: Google replaces all their pages with an an announcement that they'll be checking all links for infringement before allowing searches; please be patient while we read the internet."