SOPA Defeat Leaves Hollywood Licking Its Wounds
Next weeks controversial anti-piracy bill, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been indefinately postponed by the US senate, and leaves the TV companies and Hollywood realising that the public were, and still are (by and large) non-sympathetic.
SOPA is dead
The controversial bills which include the Protect IP Act (PIPA), had big websites claiming the acts would make legitimate websites suffer and also stop the current freedom of speech that it seems only the web gives.
The act which was introduced by the House of Representatives, included plans to punish sites that simply linked to piracy websites and to enforce strict controls on copying of any content. Things that websites like Wikipedia and Google base their business model on. SOPA also would have made ISP’s block user access to any identified websites.
And so began the global online protests by Google, Facebook and Wikipedia plus a host of other websites which led to the shelving of the acts. Although the entertainment industry and news organizations supported the proposed legislation, claiming that billions of dollars were being stolen by pirates.
This leaves Hollywood in a difficult predicament, the public lack any sympathy to (as they see them), fat cat execs and overpaid movie and TV actors. The perception is that they wont miss that lost million or so in their vast mountain of wealth.
The LA Times reports that Hollywood are regrouping and ready to hit the public with a new PR damage control campaign. “What they need to do is lick their wounds, see what happened and do a lot of test messaging right now because clearly the one they were using wasn’t effective,” said veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman.
But they will have their work cut out. It seems that the acts are not needed after US authorities closed down the Megaupload and Megavideo websites, charging seven people in the process. And many see the entertainment industry as a dinosaur, failing to adapt to the internet and maybe cut costs of media and make piracy unnecessary.
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In addition to boycotting SOPA and PIPA we should also be supporting local artists, musicians, writers, etc. Why not encourage people to check out local bands and buy cd’s from independent artists? We need to wean ourselves off of corporate media and create our own media. This is how it used to be, long b4 TV and radio. People used to create their own entertainment. Why can’t we go back to that? Show those arrogant so and so’s in Hollywood that we the people don’t need their corporate controlled media. So if they don’t want us to watch their films or listen to their music for free…well, we can just create our own. So there. My films and my music are available for free on the Internet…as are those of lots of other talented artists.
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