Guest Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 JOIN The VICE MAGAZINE SOPA SPONSOR HYPOCRITE HUNT Cast your mind back, way back, to this morning. We found out that the guy whose idea it was to kill the internet with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) had used an unauthorized photograph to tart up his own website. Remember? Lamar Smith wants to stop people on the internet from violating copyright law, but, in the process of promoting his career as an internet-killing politician, he violated copyright law himself. Clearly, that makes him a hypocrite. (A hypocrite whose website was "down for maintenance" shortly after this post was published, but appears to be up again now.) Well, this afternoon we started attempting to gather information of similar copyright infringements by other co-sponsors/supporters of the bill. There's a ton of stuff on these people's sites which, we assume, is copyright protected and not cleared. Take the above video for example. It was uploaded to the official YouTube channel of Lee Terry, the Nebraska representative who was one of the original 12 SOPA co-sponsors. It's hard to imagine that he would have spent the tens of thousands of dollars it would have cost to clear the clips of Looney Tunes, C-Span, ABC News, and FOX News that are used in it. Especially seeing as, at the time of writing, the video has only been viewed 115 times. The list of co-sponsors has swollen to 81 since the bill was launched, so we're turning it over to you. If you're bored tonight, see if you can find any examples of copyright violation by any of the 81 co-sponsors (the full list of which can be seen here) and send your screengrabs or links to me, at jamie.taete@vice.com – I'll be updating this blog with anything you find. You might find these links useful: Who in Congress supports SOPA: http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ Google Search by Image: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Creative Commons FAQs: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions Happy hunting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murderland_bgk Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 i say we just clean house these politicians are just a bunch of uptight rich assholes who dont know what best for the average american Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 yes, that's true but most average americans would rather stay on the couch than cast a vote then you hear the tired old excuse ad nauseum, 'there is no one to vote for' and i never see these people running a campaign either the only good thing about our system is that it can be changed from the inside and let's face it, our military is far too powerful for any revolution to happen here. people actually do just need to vote at the least, run for office at most Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 shits all just a buncha bullshit. only leading up to one inevitable, unstoppable thing.... this is why i'm spending the year reading up and preparing for a more KIR style of living. even if i don't last. i'm fucking tired of all this shit. wake up, go to work. go home. drink a beer. watch a vhs, walk the dog, maybe do something else. check bank acct. pay a fucking bill. get a paycheck. spend it on overpriced rent. read somethin, go to bed. BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP fucking alarm goes off. drive a car to work cause public trans is more expensive. work for shitty jews who do nothing and make quadruple my pay. fuck. you. america. ps. symbols. i'm not anything close to politically in the know. but i gotta fucking disagree 110% on the voting thing. i voted a single time in my life. for mr. current president not just because im fucking black and wanted to see it happen. but because he talked all this shit about doing something in particular that he never fucking mentioned again. i'm convinced that voting does absolutely nothing but keep more and more control over shit like, the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPS Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 prawped. for the most perfect appropriate response possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Call Harry Reid: (202) 224-3542 if you want to opt out of democracy, fine by me but don't be upset when you wake up to a very different USA i plan to emigrate eventually and i don't have kids so i'm not as invested in the future as some voting got me plenty of stuff, not least of which was the HOPE scholarship and the Lifetime Learning Credit. ($$$) it also got me the FMLA. it's not like none of my peeps do shit for me. i have a good relationship with my reps and they listen when i tell them gay marriage should be legal, for example. you notice how we once had jim crow laws, and now we are fighting for equality for all? how exactly do you think we got here? by not voting or doing a damn thing? :haha: i'm cynical, but i also realize that most people aren't engaged because they are lazy. fuck it, i honestly don't care, if you care. it's all guts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 symbols. clearly obviously you're a smart, extra educated type of broad. but you can't honestly believe "YOUR" vote or "OUR" vote is going to make a damn bit of difference the way things have been going in this country. i tried getting into the occupy movement and gave up shortly after because i realized that until people stop talking and start getting physical this shits only going to get worse. until that point......crookedasscountry is KROOKED. the end. call it what you will, but i honestly feel my vote these days isn't going to make a god damned bit of difference. there isn't even a candidate worth a shit as far as i can tell now regardless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
you can microwave bacon Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 these savages only care about money. and if this bill passes through I think people will adapt somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 the people who rig elections say it's harder to do so when more people vote... so really one vote is like 3/4ths a vote, so you have to do it in numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RIPS Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 NWO NWO NWO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPS Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 download all the porn you can, that's the last call Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CALIgula Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 i guess its a bad sign when you go to email the senator and the site is not working and call them and get a busy line....oh well, i guess i'll keep trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPS Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDN9y2vTdUs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milk Grenades Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 have fun! http://radaris.com/ 203,043,529 Persons Profiled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourgeoisie Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 the best SOPA protest i've seen so far.... http://theoatmeal.com/sopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fictionator Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 "The Bass Tab Archive tab collection has been taken off-line in order to comply with a recently received takedown letter from legal representation for the NMPA and MPA. While I strongly disagree with their position that on-line guitar tablature is a violation of artist copyright, I have chosen to comply with this order. As there is a growing community of tablature sites being threatened in this manner, my hope is that some coordinated effort can be made to resolve this matter." different or not it's really bothering the shit out of me. the tabs and transcriptions of artists songs have nothing to do with piracy, fucking clowns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.geekosystem.com/herpderpedia/ i don't do twitter. but some of these posts is hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup forgot his password Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 My favorites so far Dayna Delmastro aight so congress is fucking retarded ? steveOFSEASONS OMG SOAP SHUT DOWN WIKIPEDIA with a space and a question mark ? I was hoping there'd be one like "All these white websites have turned black and stopped working. Mad racist." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 symbols. clearly obviously you're a smart, extra educated type of broad. but you can't honestly believe "YOUR" vote or "OUR" vote is going to make a damn bit of difference the way things have been going in this country. i tried getting into the occupy movement and gave up shortly after because i realized that until people stop talking and start getting physical this shits only going to get worse. until that point......crookedasscountry is KROOKED. the end. call it what you will, but i honestly feel my vote these days isn't going to make a god damned bit of difference. there isn't even a candidate worth a shit as far as i can tell now regardless. i completely understand your feelings, i used to feel that way. my beef with occupy is that there is no central tenet i do still think though, that if 'we' can get corporations out of government, there is a chance for 'us' i guess what also happened as i got older, is that i saw a LOT of the rest of the world. complain as much as i do, things actually are not as bad as they could be. i got some faith restored when a black guy got elected president. showed me elections probably are not exactly rigged, all the time. it brought a lot of shit to the surface, yes.. and it also stoked the fire of the tea party movement.. but look at those douchebags for example, they are actually having an impact. they are changing the course of govt.. even Ronnie Paul has a larger following now.. our system does allow for change, and for as long as people like you just check out of the system, things will get worse. it makes me think though, that we are seriously fucked, because people like yourself are leaving it to old white people and the tea party to remake our country.. it's sad. but if keystoneXL can be shot down (at least for now..) things can still break good. if you hate all the candidates in your area (i have two awesome, and awesomely left-wing, state senators) ..consider going into politics then. fuck it. ......... seriously folks, not trying to go all crossfire here but if these stupid anti-piracy laws go down, shit like oontz won't exist. we post copyrighted articles, photos, music, and links to all that shit all the time. and if you look at what happened yesterday, it's obvious that the 'will of the people' still means something (even if it's not much) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 have fun! http://radaris.com/ 203,043,529 Persons Profiled We are sorry. "***** ****" has not been found. Please try another name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 that shit aint got me on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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asthma al Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 All this sopa talk making me hungry..heh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 that shit aint got me on it That site may not, but I'm willing to bet SOPA does for that Internet-breaking stunt you pulled a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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