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More annoying (but more visible) idea: Everyone changes their name to "SOPA Enforcement Officer #204295" with an official looking picture, and combs through th
by evan_ 15y ago
More annoying (but more visible) idea:
Everyone changes their name to "SOPA Enforcement Officer #204295" with an official looking picture, and combs through their friends posts all day looking for pictures or text that would potentially be taken down under a nightmare SOPA regime.
T-shirts or products with logos visible, artwork visible, song lyrics, videos with uncleared background music. Get creative.
Then, post fake takedown notices (in the comments) with an informational link.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> T-shirts or products with logos visible, artwork visible, song lyrics, videos with uncleared background music. Get creative. Seems like something that could be automated, if only there was a big database of copyrighted works. (Maybe transloading videos to YouTube and watching for the "copyrighted works detected" flag to pop up?)
- meow 15y agoahem... won't we be doing media lobby's work for them :)..
- ggchappell 15y ago> ... if only there was a big database of copyrighted works. Essentially all works are copyrighted under U.S. law, except those made by the U.S. Government, those whose copyright has expired (OLD stuff), other-media representations of a public domain work (e.g., a photograph of the Mona Lisa), and those explicitly placed into the public domain by the author.
- evan_ 15y agoit's more powerful from an emotional standpoint if people do it manually