X-Cop Fly Company » entertainment industry http://xcopfly.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:55:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ The “Blacklist Bills” Are Just Plain Silly http://xcopfly.com/2011/11/23/the-blacklist-bills-are-just-plain-silly/ http://xcopfly.com/2011/11/23/the-blacklist-bills-are-just-plain-silly/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:45:14 +0000 xcopfly http://xcopfly.com/?p=3342 You may have seen The X-Cop Fly Company (and its sister site, Rogue Central) take part in the “American Censorship Day” protest on the 16th.

This was an effort to stop the creation of the Great Firewall of America (aka “Internet Blacklist Bills”). If you did not see the “Stop Censorship” banner on Mozilla, Techdirt, etc. that day, or missed when I did it, the banner took you to AmericanCensorship.org.

A hearing occurred on that night in Congress regarding two unusually un-American bills, The House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261) and the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (S 968). More at AmericanCensorship.org and EFF.

Here is a video which sums it up:


PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

            

Much has been written about the tyrannical nature of these bills. I did not follow it on this blog, as much more has been written on every other blog and I would have too much to write about. However, in this post I will point out several ways this bill is outright silly:

  • A certain non-profit encyclopedia will have to block the US from editing its site, as they will have to hire lawyers 24/7 to approve every edit (out of at least thousands of edits per day)
  • YouTube will have to fully watch and fully approve every video submitted.
  • In order to prevent ourselves from accidentally becoming felons, we will have to put a blindfold and earplugs next to our keyboard and mouse.
  • At least once, the President be working together with, and acting in the interest of, Muslim terrorist states.
  • People will not be able to buy food if they are merely suspected of copyright infringement, as the grocer would become a felon unless the customer goes to federal court with the MAFIAA and is not proven guilty. (Still a financial transaction.)
  • Every business in the country becomes free unpaid legal services for the entertainment industry, mainstream media, and White House.

If you haven’t yet, write your Senators and Representatives, and soon.

]]> http://xcopfly.com/2011/11/23/the-blacklist-bills-are-just-plain-silly/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ The Internet can get pretty bizarre sometimes… http://xcopfly.com/2009/10/21/the-internet-can-get-pretty-bizarre-sometimes/ http://xcopfly.com/2009/10/21/the-internet-can-get-pretty-bizarre-sometimes/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:58:33 +0000 xcopfly http://xcopfly.com/?p=658 Either someone, or some group of people, has some kind of problem with Gloria Estefan, her husband, P Diddy, and some music industry figure named Frank Amadeo. I see these repeated comments and remarks posted on YouTube videos, people’s blogs, and business review sites (relating to their holding company "Estefan Enterprises") about supposed money laundering. They are all premade templates like this:

Gloria and Emilio ESTEFANS MIAMI MAFIA
For? details please search for “FRANK AMADEO” on You Tube.

Two years ago I reported Estefan Enterprises to the FBI, but the biggest disappointment was when GLORIA and EMILIO ESTEFAN confessed that? they knew about, and agree with, everything that has been going on in their companies.
For more details search FRANK AMADEO and GLORIA ESTEFAN CRIMINAL on You Tube.

I watched the Money Laundering video about Gloria Estefan Criminal. You should too!

The messages above resemble spam in every way: they come from premade messages, which look like the "Buy Viagra" referral spam messages, and are posted on many different blogs and Web sites under a variety of aliases. However, they are not selling anything or linking to Web sites, they only tell you to investigate videos on YouTube.

I am not embedding the videos here, only putting full links, because I want you to see the comments as well and how bizarre this whole thing truly is.

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