If you're an American, please note that there's a bill called "SOPA" now in Congress that -- if voted into law -- allows anyone to allege copyright infringement linking vs. any site. The site owner then has only five days to respond. Five. Then the feds will have the site blocked in the US.
My bolds. That means I'll have to read every post and follow every link to see where it ends up. If it ends up at a page that has unauthorized copyrighted material, I'd have to remove the link or MVS could get taken down. And no, I'm not going to ask my moderators to do this. They do enough already.At a minimum, this means that any service that hosts user generated content is going to be under enormous pressure to actively monitor and filter that content. That’s a huge burden, and worse for services that are just getting started – the YouTubes of tomorrow that are generating jobs today. And no matter what they do, we’re going to see a flurry of notices anyway – as we’ve learned from the DMCA takedown process, content owners are more than happy to send bogus complaints. What happened to Wikileaks via voluntary censorship will now be systematized and streamlined – as long as someone, somewhere, thinks they’ve got an IP right that’s being harmed.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-Internet
Currently, MVS is protected by what's known as Safe Harbor. SOPA would kill most of Safe Harbor.
https://eff.org/r.C8A
Please go there, put in your zip code, and you're done. An email will be sent to both your senators and your congressman. And no, that link is nothing to worry about in privacy terms, I've been donating to the EFF for almost 10 years. And the EFF is probably the world's most effective proponent of privacy.
Thank you
Matt, owner/admin
