Will @BarackObama support @RonPaul's HR 3785 to repeal #NDAA Section 1021 (Indefinite detention without trial)?

Everyone has copyrighted material. In the US, every thought or expression has copyright from the moment it's recorded in any medium until 95 years after the death of the artist/content creator, which is more than ridiculous but does cut down on the amount of Micky Mouse porn running loose in the world.

The MPAA and RIAA, content distribution collectives, driving forces behind these efforts, have the same attitude toward the Internet as buggy makers had toward the internal combustion engine. They don't understand it and it scares the hell out of them. They would be far more comfortable if they could casually disappear any website they found particularly scary by removing the DNS entry for the domain hosting the alleged infringing content.

Not to suggest that movie and music makers shouldn't be paid for their work, but some multi-billion dollar corporations are under the crazy notion that every piece of shared content means a lost sale. This is the assumption that drives their loss estimates, their "damages". This is the lie they've been telling their shareholders. All we have to do to let them prove themselves wrong is take down the Internet and replace it with Cable TV over IP.

A good chunk of the software industry, who ought to know better, is quietly in favor of SOPA and PIPA, confident of their ability to not become targets of this giant enforcement gun, blinded by illusory lost sales.

What greases this slippery slope is Everything is Copyrighted. For a tangential but valid example, just ask the Church of Scientology.

Does this mean Andrew Bretibart will be retroactively scolding Eric Cantor for holding short positions on America during the Debt Ceiling Debate/Debacle?

Sheep should wait in the back yard until it's feeding time for the tigers.

I knew Andrew Breitbart could have a rational opinion, if the matter was close enough to (his) home.

Newsflash: Andrew Breitbart encourages class warfare.

They should go buy some. I hear they can afford it.

Mr Nolte /could/ take a step forward on the behalf of journalistic integrity and apologize for the unfounded nature of his article and his complete lack of diligence. That action alone would raise the over all average of the Big Circus.

As an online poll, it does not draw against the general population of the United States but against the population of Internet users which does not have exactly the same trait distribution as the physical population of the geographic United States.

Well of course legal action is "possible". This is America! Where anybody can sue anyone for any reason, as long as they can do a bit of paperwork and pay the filing fee.