Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA

While Google has been very vocal in its demands concerning the protection of intellectual property and soup, and Yahoo, LinkedIn and Zynga raised concerns elsewhere, the silence of the big companies like Facebook, Twitter, eBay , Mozilla, and AOL have been unhappy. That may be changing. As a group, they have now sent a letter to all major sponsors of both bills, arguing that the focus here is the exact wrong approach, and cause significant damage to parts of the economy are innovative and create jobs work today:


We are very concerned that the bill as written would seriously undermine the effective mechanism, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to provide a safe haven for companies the Internet in good faith to remove illegal content on their sites. Since its enactment in 1998, the provisions of the DMCA safe harbor to online service providers have been the cornerstone of U. S. Internet and technology industry growth and success. While working together to find additional means foreign destination "rogue" sites should not compromise a basic structure that has worked for content owners and Internet companies and provides security for innovative new ideas about how people create, find, discuss and share information online legally.


We are proud to be part of an industry that was critical to U.S. economic growth and job creation. A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute found that the Internet represents 3.4% of GDP in the 13 countries studied McKinsey and the United States, the GDP contribution of the Internet is even greater. If Internet use and expenditures were in an area, its contribution to GDP would be greater than the energy, agriculture, communications, mining and utilities. In addition, the Internet sector has increased the productivity of small and medium enterprises by 10%. Please do not risk the success or the enormous benefits the Internet has made hundreds of millions of Americans and people around the world.


I can not wait to see the usual commentators insist that spend almost all large companies on the Internet only say this because they are dedicated to counterfeiting. But the real question is: when Congress realize that there is a real opposition to this bill one of the few industries that have to do really well these days
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