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Last night there was an interesting panel discussion at Stanford many problems with the soup. He has covered much ground we have covered here in recent months, but there were some interesting moments. Paul Vixie, who was a very vocal opponent to block DNS, explained why it would work and how it would cause many other problems ... but also noted that probably went against his own interest in making this argument. This is due to problems caused by SOPA / PIP 's DNS block that need fixing ... and suggests that many people go to your business and pay for repairs. So it's a very sensible attitude by Vixie.



a separate point raised by Mark Lemley was from the outset that this argument that the U.S. simply can not go after foreign websites is ridiculous. Under current law, it has happened many times in the past where the owners of copyright have disappeared after the sites and companies based outside the United States and dragged these people in U.S. courts.

The vast majority of the evening continued with the implicit assumption that everyone here is adamantly opposed to the soup ... but towards the end of two executives of Paramount Pictures announced that they were there, and were in large part on the other side. The ambient temperature must have dropped by 20 degrees when it happened. To be honest, the group itself may have had fireworks a little more (but probably not as productive) if it had not been a supporter of the blue panel. Of course, the guys at Paramount in Hollywood typically makes a lot of false assumptions. Perhaps the best part was when one of them venture capitalists challenged Albert Wenger, claiming the companies in its portfolio to use the intellectual property laws to protect your business: Wenger who immediately said no, and I do not support at all. Instead, the companies said their company (Union Square Ventures) invests in tend to win in the market competing and winning. He noted that although the source code completely stopped Tumblr (an investment of VSU), would not matter. In fact, said that another company had copied Tumblr function by function ... but could not get the users. The point is clear, and is the same as we have done here for many years: it focuses on copyright to protect themselves is not a good business model, not something to invest in this instead, focus on things that can succeed

run

even if someone copied line by line.



Finally, it was a funny moment when Andrew Bridges asked the guy at the Paramount exactly how many sites they see as a problem. Because, he said, leaders of other studies of some of the biggest Hollywood studios had given a number from 10 to several hundred. And he said, if only a small number of sites, so why create huge problems of regulating the entire Internet, rather than trying to deal with the sites. The problem is that Hollywood tries to control much more than it really "the worst of the worst." However, when someone suggested it was "hundreds" of sites that have been problems, said Mark Lemley, and must all be done, because the ice seized 450 domains.
Overall it was an interesting evening. Discussions specific DNS blocking problems have been particularly enlightening. C That is why, when the House was ridiculously one-sided public SOPA last month - in which a juror, not only knew nothing about DNS - they must have had someone like Paul Vixie there to explain the basics of the reason where soup and bad ideas that PIPA will not fix things and probably make things worse.

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