[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] todays supreme court decision.

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:09:01AM -0800, MJang wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:29 -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:21:52PM -0800, Dale F. Victor wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if anyone is thinking about the repercussions about the Supreme 
> > > Court Decision today. I am wondering if it would be a good thing to move all 
> > > my web content offshore.
> > > 
> > > Sorry if this is off topic, I just thought I would put this out there to see 
> > > what happens.
> >  
> > Before you move your content offshore, move this thread to plug-talk.
> > 
> > Why would there be a need to move offshore?
> > Political speech is now in the market to the highest bidder, no restrictions
> > remain.
> 
> Why would a Supreme Court decision on political speech lead one to
> moving web content offshore? AFAIK, no prohibitions were added/created
> by the decision.
> 
> If the answer is political, then perhaps this topic does belong on
> plug-talk. 
 
A couple of examples to consider:

Telecoms are upset about net neutrality.  They run heavy ads supporting candidates that 
know little about the issue, but understand whose supporting their bid for office. 
Once in office they become oppoenents to net netrality.

Media groups don't feel the DCMA went far enough.  Apply above scenario and, bingo, we
have a legislative body that fiercely fights for the IP property rights of their 
corporate sponsors.  Reverse engineering becomes a crime.  Microsoft rolls out new
file formats and changes network behavior of AD servers.  It is no longer possible 
to create compatible products.

It's chilling. 
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      Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon  
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