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[Tom Johnson]

If you are a U.S. citizen, this is important.

Explainer: understanding Sopa

Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it online – seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith. He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will likely become one of the big stories of the coming year

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/dec/23/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act



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[Owen Densmore]

I'd love to see us roll out our own internet via mesh networks, phones, wifi community networks and all the rest.  

It could be done.  Its how it started .. DEC, PARC, and others had their own protocols built on top of physical layer nets, mainly ethernet.  Intel got involved and the three of them built the first 1MB standardized ethernet, and worked with NSF to build standard protocols on top of the dirt cheap (Intel's chip) hardware.

There has been a HUGE spurt in wifi WAN networks.  Cybermesa is rolling one out for Santa Fe using brilliant new antennas with mesh networking, all based on cellular technology.

Think big.  We really can take back the network.  Occupy The Net!

   -- Owen

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you are a U.S. citizen, this is important.

Explainer: understanding Sopa

Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it online – seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith. He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will likely become one of the big stories of the coming year

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/dec/23/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act



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[Gillian Densmore]

Nanci Paloski(sp) has stated that in essence SOPA is to heavy handed.
Google has argude with mixed luck that the DMCA and Copyright law is
sufficient for what SOPA wants to achieve.(See NY times articles).
What bugs me about it-IF it passes google could get a court order
because someone searched for Linux torent and ISO. BUT Because of the
keywords ISO and Torent google would theoreticly have to contact
someone who knows someone. Just a bad idea.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

> If you are a U.S. citizen, this is important.
>
> Explainer: understanding Sopa
>
> Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary
> committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before
> Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it
> online – seems to have given pause to the bill's main author, Lamar Smith.
> He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the
> bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will
> likely become one of the big stories of the coming year
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/dec/23/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act
>
>
>
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> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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