Lamar Smith, the author of SOPA, breaks copyright law on campaign website and becomes a pirate too
On the same day that Wikipedia turned off their lights for 24 hours to protest the proposed “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA as it is better known, the very politician who wrote the bill was called out by the 9GAG website for being caught redhanded breaking copyright law on his official campaign website.
Lamar Smith, the politician in question that has been pushing the bill that has even the tech Gurus over at Mashable screaming foul over SOPA’s extreme overreach and censorship capabilities, has allegedly used a photograph for the background of his campaign website without giving credit to the photographer or paying for its use. That’s right, the guy who wants to stop online piracy is apparently an Internet pirate himself – Arrrrrrr
we dont need SOPA!!
January 21, 2012 at 4:00 AM
Why am I not surprised by Lamar Smith.
January 19, 2012 at 3:29 PM
SOPA is something which we don’t need. Lamar smith, get a life!
January 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM
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If any toilet would be so full of crap you wouldn’t call a plumber but declare it a disaster zone and call for the national guard.
I wonder how much a law costs, and wether a stupid law is more expensive than an insane one.
January 19, 2012 at 1:32 PM
So I’ve been told he took the image down from his website. Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to just pay the artist? Oh wait… I guess censorship would be better… right? That way we don’t share the nice art and that way the artist doesn’t make any money and that way no tax revenue is possible. Clearly that is way better than just paying the artist.
January 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM
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I don’t know if I could like this any harder.
January 19, 2012 at 4:40 AM
This Lamar Smith is a nut job…unbelievable …that he has devised this bill to hinder knowledge,ideas,intuitions,progress…preferring to keep people ignorant,bored,depressed,without any avenue to seek….also these “politicians”knows schools aren’t enough…..but hey..lobbying pays off politicians…so …
January 19, 2012 at 3:22 AM
If you’re against this, you’re against patriotism! hahahahaha lol!
January 19, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Thanks for this excellent post — definitely from the “I couldn’t make this stuff up” files. I am linking to it at WIMN’s Voices, the group blog of Women In Media & News. I will be posting your photo (with attribution) on my post as well, but especially considering the subject matter, wanted to give you the heads up on that. If you would prefer me to take the photo down, please let me know.
January 19, 2012 at 12:44 AM
well this is a country is which a complete baffoon like Rick Perry can run for PRESIDENT, what do you expect, but yea i say shut him down..
January 18, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Shut him down!
January 18, 2012 at 10:54 PM
This is total crap the moron who thought up this stupid act is doing it himself. Talk about hiporitical
January 18, 2012 at 10:44 PM
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Typical Republican
January 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM
More like typical politician.
January 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM
definitely not a dem vs. repub issue. it’s lobbyists influencing legislation
January 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Let’s contact his Website Provider and bombard them with request to shut his website down!!
January 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM
hahahahah- “Isn’t it Ironic? Don’t ya think?” (Alanis Morissette, “Ironic” from Jagged Little Pill, 1995)
January 18, 2012 at 8:31 PM
all he is gonna do is update with a small section that credits the guy ….
January 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Even with a credit, it’s still a copyright violation unless the user has the artist’s permission. But it’s already a violation under current law; we don’t need a new law to make it so.
January 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM
It’s a pirates life for him! ;0)
January 18, 2012 at 6:25 PM