By Jeromie Williams
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
Image from 9gag.com:
Read Jeromie’s original article at; http://jeromiewilliams.com/2012/01/18/lamar-smith-the-author-of-sopa-breaks-copyright-law-on-campaign-website-and-becomes-a-pirate-himself/
Lamar Smith steppe in his own shit!
*cue Nelson the Bully laughing*
The internet in the United States of America should be uncensored. In China and North Korea it is censored.
We do not need internet censorship or restrictions here.
We have enough laws on copyrite protection.
If your senator or representaive votes for or supports any form of internet censorship or any restriction of the internet, Please, Vote against him and oppose him any time he runs for office again.
Even with a credit, it’s still a copyright violation unless the user has the artist’s permission, and licensing agreements don’t always require credit. It’s the permission that is crucial, not a credit. Just giving credit doesn’t mean you’re in the clear.
I don’t know if I could like this any harder.
HAHAHAHAHA YOu know you’re a real corrupt do*chebag, who just got payed off when you dont even understand your own law..
HAHAHAHAHHA JOKE OF THE CENTURY
AMERICAN POLITICS AHAHAHAHAHHA JOKE OF THE WORLD
For an easy way to see other places this photo and others are being use, check out http://www.tineye.com/search/919f5228e6b069a8f8e8ad3175e29b51ed518fb9/
(I’m not affiliated with TinEye
Congressman Lamar Smith= teaxs republican + christian = hypocrite.
Should we be surprised?
This actually happened almost a week ago on Vice.com, that’s the “someone” the image references. I’m glad more people are picking up on it.