PIPA letter to Georgia Senators
(Not directly Sysadmin related, but important none the less. Here are letters I’m sending to my Senators, both of whom are co-sponsors of the PIPA or Protect IP Act)
Please use these as templates or replace <NAME> and <ADDRESS> with the appropriate values.
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The Honorable Saxby Chambliss
416 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington DC 20510
Dear Senator:
My name is <NAME> and my address is <ADDRESS>. I am writing you because I am deeply disappointed that you are not only supporting the Protect IP Act (aka PIPA, aka S.968), but are actually a co-sponsor of the proposed legislation.
As written, PIPA would destroy the progress of the Internet over the past 15 years. You well know how important that growth has been to the country as a whole, and Atlanta/Columbus/Savannah in particular. The entire ‘Web 2.0′ movement is founded on user generated content as well as enabling small entities (businesses and persons) to work together and build amazing things. The provisions of PIPA would work to destroy this foundation by significantly decreasing due process for ‘take down’ requests, while drastically increasing the ‘damage radius’ of such requests (such as forcing Ad-networks, search engines, DNS servers, etc to ‘delist’ entire sites for having a single bit of infringing content.)
No one denies that intellectual property piracy is a real problem. There are possible legal remedies to these challenges, however PIPA is a very dangerous solution to these problems.
Please retract your support and sponsorship of the PIPA (S.968) immediately.
Thank you,
<NAME>
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The Honorable Johnny Isakson
131 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington DC 20510
Dear Senator:
My name is <NAME> and my address is <ADDRESS>. I am writing you because I am deeply disappointed that you are not only supporting the Protect IP Act (aka PIPA, aka S.968), but are actually a co-sponsor of the proposed legislation.
As written, PIPA would destroy the progress of the Internet over the past 15 years. You well know how important that growth has been to the country as a whole, and Atlanta/Columbus/Savannah in particular. The entire ‘Web 2.0′ movement is founded on user generated content as well as enabling small entities (businesses and persons) to work together and build amazing things. The provisions of PIPA would work to destroy this foundation by significantly decreasing due process for ‘take down’ requests, while drastically increasing the ‘damage radius’ of such requests (such as forcing Ad-networks, search engines, DNS servers, etc to ‘delist’ entire sites for having a single bit of infringing content.)
No one denies that intellectual property piracy is a real problem. There are possible legal remedies to these challenges, however PIPA is a very dangerous solution to these problems.
Please retract your support and sponsorship of the PIPA (S.968) immediately.
Thank you,
<NAME>