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Thursday, November 24, 2011

postheadericon Why The Public Is Willing To Rally Against SOPA/PIPA, But Not For It

Really big story that came out of the House meeting last week SOUP Judiciary Committee was not so much what was said in their own public, but the support bases only came to protest against the law. We had mentioned something about it, but the final number and level of support was truly amazing.
The numbers are quite amazing. I remember the pride of the Astroturf group set up by the movie studios is that it has 100 000 "letters" in Congress in favor of these bills? Which took months
, and most were not letters, but the signatures on a petition open - and, as noted at the time, many people seemed wanting to remove the signature, after learning the details of the bill. However, in this case more
millions e-mails were sent (creative and unlike U.S. users can change the email to add your own thoughts)
in one day


participation Tumblr is really amazing, too. The company decided to cut off your system and telephone calls in a day or two, then were able to deliver a

mass telephone campaign to Congress. 87,834 phone calls in a real day, reaching 3.6 per second in some points. 1293 hours

rose to speak. Tumblr users and alerted the others, thus: is a question that many of the Internet does not take into account before Wednesday. Now

huge people online are aware of the bill and its consequences. And they are willing to speak before Congress.

supporters of soup / PIPA like to claim that the public is behind them. The actual data suggest otherwise, but I was wondering why people are more willing to talk about this subject - a subject that rarely gets this kind of grassroots support voice. Of course, people like websites they use - Tumblr, Reddit, Foursquare, Kickstater, and many other sites who spoke against the project. However, people also like music and movies from major players in the entertainment industry. So why not buy the message they need soup old Hollywood / PIPA?

part, I think, has to do with the simple reality. People can see the details of these bills and to recognize why they are bad

, and go well beyond its stated objective. But a more serious problem, it seems, is changing the way businesses interact with people today. The major Hollywood studios and major record labels have spent the last decade

treat their fans like criminals
. The course, at any time, was that these people had the worst of intentions and just wanted to rip (despite much evidence to the contrary). Therefore, they focused on making life worse for users with lots of collateral damage. Things like DRM and demanding children.
In addition, Internet companies recognize that their users are all about. Building communities
that

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