{"id":3654,"date":"2011-12-15T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:18:31","slug":"what-could-end-this-web-site-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3654","title":{"rendered":"What could end this web site for real"},"content":{"rendered":"

The corporate power grab for control of the Internet is in process
\nhttp:\/\/m.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/12\/sopa-stalls\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The people behind the trash on TV, music and movies want the power to file a motion with a judge and get an order to have ISPs refuse to honor DNS request for “banned” web sites – sites only accused of infringing copyrighted material. What is necessary to get a judge to sign off is negligible (especially if that judge is friendly to corporate show business interests).<\/p>\n

With a presumption of guilt and a draconian remedy, defending a claim of “fair use” would be a large burden. For me, this is pretty much a non-issue – blocking my ability to use Google ads means nothing since I have no revenue stream. Most people (but not all) realize that I’m providing free publicity and not undermining what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

So far, most of the legislators want no part of this bill – but it’s exactly the kind of thing that often passes by voice vote at 2 AM the day before leaving for Christmas.<\/p>\n

And you know the zObamabies are drooling at the prospect. How long before someone shows up with an order to block MichaelSavage.com? It doesn’t matter that the claim is without merit – all it takes is one friendly judge. How many web sites can survive for months while fighting a legal battle to prove the site is not infringing copyrights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The corporate power grab for control of the Internet is in process http:\/\/m.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/12\/sopa-stalls\/ The people behind the trash on TV, music and movies want the power to file a motion with a judge and get an order to have ISPs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide","category-american-politics","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}