I agree. I think we can do a win/win solution rather than compromise. Let's come up with something. On 1/12/2012 6:25 PM, Sarah El Ebiary wrote: > That sounds great, Marc! > > I'm all in. My livelihood and career depend on the commercial exchange > of intellectual property, but the entire Internet community, our > privacy, and civil liberties should not have to suffer in order to > protect some copyright owners from having their content usurped by > online consumers/distributors. > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Marc Perkel <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > I have good news to report. I had an interesting day today. I met > with Nancy Pelosi today and talked about SOPA. She indicated that > she was no fan of SOPA and thought it probably wouldn't pass. She > did say however the IP is a real problem and that something needed > to be done. > > I told her the I can come up with an alternative and I told her > that if she opposes SOPA that I would write a technical spec for > something that actually would work and not break the Internet. She > was VERY interested and she made sure that her assistant exchanged > cards with me. > > I actually have an idea. I've been working on this for years and I > will write it up but not right away. But I want to put the > challenge out there. What can we come up with that is better than > SOPA and doesn't involve compromising our civil liberties values? > > Just wondering if some one of you will come up with the same idea > I'm thinking of. And - I do think that we should put something > reasonable on the table. And I think that the problem can be > solved and we can solve it - before they solve it for us. > > Ideas? > >