- From: Jose De Loera <mtdeloera@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:57:19 -0600
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAPRg2yXzeH+T+n9LXYWmHKusg7FGRUM3AKP2+YTakRZ+Rsvwrg@mail.gmail.com>
No objections. Page looks good. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here is a proposal: I think we should take part in the SOPA/PIPA protest > that will be happening across the Web in the coming week. If you don't > know what SOPA/PIPA is, here is some background: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**SOPA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA> > > SOPA/PIPA would negatively impact the work we're doing here. > Specifically, the monitoring rules and takedown notices would affect the > technological solution. So far, we've determined that SOPA would require > PaySwarm Authorities to cease doing business with anyone on the Web that > is /accused/ of copyright violations. Keep in mind that a takedown > request isn't required with SOPA and it strips away many of the safe > harbor provisions for websites that host content in the DMCA. > > I've prepared a SOPA/PIPA protest page for the payswarm.com site, you > can preview it here: > > http://payswarm.com/index-**sopa.xhtml<http://payswarm.com/index-sopa.xhtml> > > On Monday, we would switch the site to serve that page as the landing > page from January 16th 2012 through January 19th 2012. Any objections? > > -- manu > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: PaySwarm vs. OpenTransact Shootout > http://manu.sporny.org/2011/**web-payments-comparison/<http://manu.sporny.org/2011/web-payments-comparison/> > > -- Jose "Manny" De Loera Project Manager 817-262-8002 Linkedin <http://linkd.in/f1grtc> Twitter <http://twitter.com/#!/sgtpmjmdl> *Aut viam inveniam aut faciam *
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