All the blackout banners should link to this video.
It's a YouTube video. They can just embed it on the page.
Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
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Re: Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
#12Sal showed up at our weekly company picnic/lunch today and said something like, "All these sites are down cuz of SOPA, but everything I read is still so hard to understand," so he dove in and made this this morning. Pretty cool.
I am convinced that Sal Khan's contribution to education is so significant his work will be used in classrooms generations from now... though perhaps in the form of some kind of technological derivative.
So congrats! You just had lunch with the historical equivalent of Einstein.
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#13I thought I knew how creepy SOPA/PIPA are
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#14A very nice video, except the particular passage referred to has the clause "designed for..., has only limited purpose or use other than, or is marketed for..." violating various laws. I don't think any of his examples would fall under any of these categories.
I'm not a lawyer, but it certainly sounds like his examples fit.
Here's the text:
[A site is illegal if] the U.S.-directed site is primarily designed or
operated for the purpose of, has only limited purpose or use other than, or
is marketed by its operator or another acting in concert with that operator
for use in, offering goods or services in a manner that engages in, enables,
or facilitates [various illegal stuff]
the U.S.-directed site is
(
primarily designed or operated for the purpose of,
has only limited purpose or use other than,
or is marketed by its operator or another acting in concert with that operator for use in,
)
offering goods or services in a manner that
(
engages in,
enables,
or facilitates
)
the U.S.-directed site is
(
*** primarily designed or operated for the purpose of,
has only limited purpose or use other than,
or is marketed by its operator or another acting in concert with that operator for use in,
)
offering goods or services in a manner that
(
engages in,
enables,
*** or facilitates
)
[A site is illegal if] the U.S.-directed site is
primarily designed or operated for the purpose of,
offering goods or services in a manner that
facilitates [various illegal stuff]
This service (uploading videos) facilitates various illegal stuff (like copyright infringement).
Re: Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
#15A very nice video, except the particular passage referred to has the clause "designed for..., has only limited purpose or use other than, or is marketed for..." violating various laws. I don't think any of his examples would fall under any of these categories.
I find it disturbing that even though I am still against SOPA and the likes, that the opposition seems to be willfully ignoring this portion. Unless I am totally misreading it, it would be very difficult for the likes of Youtube or Facebook to be included. The language is still dangerous though, because the designed for clause seems to open things up. I can easily see BitTorrent being brought in to be "designed for"…
The important part, as the video points out, is the phrase "enables or facilitates."
Google, Facebook, Youtube, and other sites that either allow user-generated content or generate links through web crawlers are "offering goods or services in a manner that (...) enables or facilitates [copyright violations]." Since linking facilitates copyright violation, this affects every site that doesn't manually vet every single link it makes.
Re: Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
#16A very nice video, except the particular passage referred to has the clause "designed for..., has only limited purpose or use other than, or is marketed for..." violating various laws. I don't think any of his examples would fall under any of these categories.
I agree. It's unpleasant to see him simply ignore the limiting language. He focuses over half the video on the "enables, or facilitates" clause, spreading the false impression that the provision says _any_ site that "enables or facilitates" could be taken down under SOPA. I am a lawyer, but it doesn't (or shouldn't) take a lawyer to see that the provision has fairly strong requirements other than just "enabling" or "facilitating" other violations.
Sorry, but I think spreading popular arguments along these lines is a bad thing. It leaves the SOPA-advocates with the strong response, "Read more closely, you've misread the provision." Now it may be that the provision as a whole is too broadly written, poorly written, too vague and uncertain, but when the SOPA-opponent makes the original mistake of misreading entirely it's hard to win back the desired position of being an authority on why SOPA is bad.
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#17Shows how effective khanacademy.org is when, after watching the entire video, I discovered I wasn't logged in and was disappointed I wouldn't get my points!
The Vision of the Gamepocalypse is coming true. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NzFCfZMBkU&t=2m10s
Gamepocalypse already happened. Money is just a point system.
Re: Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
#18Sal showed up at our weekly company picnic/lunch today and said something like, "All these sites are down cuz of SOPA, but everything I read is still so hard to understand," so he dove in and made this this morning. Pretty cool.
I am convinced that Sal Khan's contribution to education is so significant his work will be used in classrooms generations from now... though perhaps in the form of some kind of technological derivative. So congrats! You just had lunch with the historical equivalent of Einstein.
The guy really deserves some kind of recognition, but I don't think there's a Nobel or Pulitzer for education (telling).
Re: Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
#19A very nice video, except the particular passage referred to has the clause "designed for..., has only limited purpose or use other than, or is marketed for..." violating various laws. I don't think any of his examples would fall under any of these categories.
I agree. It's unpleasant to see him simply ignore the limiting language. He focuses over half the video on the "enables, or facilitates" clause, spreading the false impression that the provision says _any_ site that "enables or facilitates" could be taken down under SOPA. I am a lawyer, but it doesn't (or shouldn't) take a lawyer to see that the provision has fairly strong requirements other than just "enabling" or "…
He is saying that there are a lot of sites that offer services which could enable or facilitate pirating, because the terms 'enable' and 'facilitate' are not particularly limited in scope.
It seems clear to me.
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#20Shows how effective khanacademy.org is when, after watching the entire video, I discovered I wasn't logged in and was disappointed I wouldn't get my points!
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