http://betabeat.com Just another WordPress.com site Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:22 +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/tom-marino/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:40:18 -0400 http://betabeat.com/2011/11/sopa-opera-the-craziest-congressional-takes-on-internet-piracy/tom-marino/ http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/tom-marino.jpg “I want to thank Google for what it did for child pornography, getting off the website. I was a prosecutor for 18 years and I find it commendable and I put those people away. So if you can do that for child pornography, why can you not do that for these rogue websites? And I follow that up with, why not hire some whiz kids out of college to come in to monitor this and work for the company to take these off? My daughter who is 16 and my son is 12, we love to get on the Internet and we download music and we pay for it, and I get to a site and I get to a new one and I say, ‘This is good we can get some music here’ and my daughter says, ‘Dad, don't go near that one, that's illegal, it's free and given the fact that you're on Judiciary I don’t think you should be doing that.’”

]]> “I want to thank Google for what it did for child pornography, getting off the website. I was a prosecutor for 18 years and I find it commendable and I put those people away. So if you can do that for child pornography, why can you not do that for these rogue websites? And I follow that up with, why not hire some whiz kids out of college to come in to monitor this and work for the company to take these off? My daughter who is 16 and my son is 12, we love to get on the Internet and we download music and we pay for it, and I get to a site and I get to a new one and I say, ‘This is good we can get some music here’ and my daughter says, ‘Dad, don't go near that one, that's illegal, it's free and given the fact that you're on Judiciary I don’t think you should be doing that.’”

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