http://betabeat.com Just another WordPress.com site Wed, 22 May 2013 20:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://betabeat.com http://betabeat.com/2011/11/sopa-opera-the-craziest-congressional-takes-on-internet-piracy/cohenbluebook/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:17:59 -0400 http://betabeat.com/2011/11/sopa-opera-the-craziest-congressional-takes-on-internet-piracy/cohenbluebook/ http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/cohenbluebook.jpg "My first thought is that it doesn't seem that there should be that much difference between what the Google folks and the techie folks are wanting and what the MPAA and RIAA and the other AAs want. Lemme ask maybe the gentleman from motion pictures--who's apparently got a Rick Perry problem with not being able to count to something--Mr. O'Leary [Michael O'Leary, Senior Executive Vice President, Global Policy and External Affairs, MPAA]. Have ya'll not gotten together and tried to work this out? Some way to fine tune where there are people being penalized that are not guilty and sites being shut down where there's just a small infringement?"


"There are a couple of search engines in China and Russia. Yandex is I think is one of them and Baidu [shrugs] and some consider these rogue sites, whether they are or not, I don't know, they could be. If they were considered such and they were blocked because they had some pirate-type folks among their constituency, how do you think the Chinese and Russians would respond towards your company [Google] and towards the United States companies?"

]]> "My first thought is that it doesn't seem that there should be that much difference between what the Google folks and the techie folks are wanting and what the MPAA and RIAA and the other AAs want. Lemme ask maybe the gentleman from motion pictures--who's apparently got a Rick Perry problem with not being able to count to something--Mr. O'Leary [Michael O'Leary, Senior Executive Vice President, Global Policy and External Affairs, MPAA]. Have ya'll not gotten together and tried to work this out? Some way to fine tune where there are people being penalized that are not guilty and sites being shut down where there's just a small infringement?"


"There are a couple of search engines in China and Russia. Yandex is I think is one of them and Baidu [shrugs] and some consider these rogue sites, whether they are or not, I don't know, they could be. If they were considered such and they were blocked because they had some pirate-type folks among their constituency, how do you think the Chinese and Russians would respond towards your company [Google] and towards the United States companies?"

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