| Email Minister Sean Sherlock: sean.sherlock@oireachtas.ie Sign the Petition stopsopaireland.com Sign this second Petition for his resignation: www.thepetitionsite.com Dear Minster Sean Sherlock. On Thursday March 1st you signed off on an Internet anti-piracy law using a statutory instrument that has been dubbed the Irish SOPA. Even though millions of people around the world protested against such a law and SOPA, PIPA and ACTA were defeated. For some reason you thought it would be a good idea to ignore the cries of the majority of Internet users including the people who elected you, the 80000 Irish people who protested against it and instead you listened to a rich minority of corporate big wigs in the music and film industry. The law is so vague that it's hard to say what qualifies as a transgression. For example if I am at a wedding and I use my phone to film 30 seconds of the bride and groom on the dance floor. I then share it with my friends on Facebook only to receive a strike from my ISP or a fine or Facebook could be even be sued because of the copyrighted material I just uploaded. I'm of course referring to the background music that was playing while they were dancing. This is what this law is capable of doing and the Irish courts will be at the mercy of the corporations and rights holders. I will remind you that the concept of governments being controlled by corporations is one of the definitions of fascism. So obviously Facebook, who have offices here in Ireland ... |
