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He looks like a pedophile.
And plus, I hate politicians who appear on photos with all their family to grab more credibility…
Now, now, don’t judge people. For some politicians, the only way to make them look human is to place them next to other humans.
This.
Is that his son? He is REALLY tall!
Or they’re really small
or just really far away
He’s wearing high heels. I was there, I took the picture.
Maybe we need to ask his wife who the real father is
And then say he doesn’t have the rights for his son.
^So. Much. Win.
LOL Why can’t I hold all this win?!
I hereby bestow upon you the title of “King of the Interwebs” for the next week.
*humans
You accidentally said other.
THIS. I love you Internet..
The Internet genius award goes to….
It’s not for him. They want to make that rat on his head appear more human.
True!
and he’s got young children! really, how can they let his father do such thing?
Agree. It’s like he is saying: I have a wench who I have mated with, therefore I’m wholesome……vote for me. *gag*
And plus, plus, his son is a total giant freak, or he, his wife, and his daughter are total short freaks.
True story.
I think he is wearing a toupee, too.
Look at you all. Reduced to sad criticisms of his appearance. I don’t like the guy either, but we could at least make an effort to sound mature.
Maturity is for the real world. This is the internet.
xD LOL
Agreed.
hahahha!!!
I just shat myself laughing.
Normal pedophiles don’t look THAT creepy… That is a very SPECIAL level of creepiness right there!
He looks like the kind of guy that had to resort to politics after numerous cults rejected his application to join… or perhaps after the compound he’d been hoping to retire to got shut down and the nieces (or nephews?) that he’d planned on wedding and bedding got taken into protective custody.
No sir, thank you for being one of the very few people who didn’t say first knowing you are the first one!
Despite the fact I don’t comment very often, I would like to remind you all that nearly every adult citizen has the right to vote. If there’s anything that may cause a Representative to throw even their own personal values under the bus, it’s reelection. Remember to beg your representatives and senators to stand up against these bills, and remind them they won’t get your vote if they defy you. Also, remind them how many people go on places such as Reddit, Wikipedia, Youtube, and Facebook. Be sure to do your part as a citizen and vote those sad asses out of Congress, who are only there because no one has anything better to do than vote for the incumbent. Remember we are the only people that let these morons into office, so it’s our responsibility to kick them out.
I would drink to that!!
AMEN!!!!!
Awwwww, this guy actually thinks the government cares about what the people want. Just like Robert Downey Junior said
“Smile, nod and agree then do whatever you were going to do anyway”
/\ This.
For any of our opinions to matter, the system in place would have to radically change.
‘The people shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, the governments should be afraid of their people’
Well said.
Very true! We can’t blame the politicians for our problems, they only screw us over as much as we allow them to. Blaming an elected politician for doing something despicable with the country is kind of like handing over your house keys to a random meth addict, telling them you’ll be out of town for two weeks, and then getting upset when you come home to find that they stole all your stuff. It is as much your fault as it is theirs, you gave them the opportunity.
HELL YA
Sadly, the people who author bills like this usually have no idea what they’re talking about. Like the people who vote for red light cameras. They get surprised when they get ticketed by one. When they write or vote for laws like this, they never think how it applies to them. They think only about how it applies to “those people”, until it comes around and bites them in the butt.
That’s completely true
+1
well and the fact that he probably didn’t design the website himself. Just gave someone a bag of money and said ‘MAKE IT LOOK GOOD’
Either that or the website designer knew a thing or two and decided to design in exactly this way to be the ultimate troll…
As a website designer, we get a bag of money to “make it look good” because no one else can. Grow up. The image was purchased under a licensing agreement from one of several services like istockphoto, gettyimages, etc. The licensing agreements do not require attribution. The user may do anything they want with the image so long as they don’t create retail items (like calendars, books or t-shirts). If you want to fight SOPA do it on the merits of your argument. Stop being an idiot.
Perhaps, but I was reading on Consumerist earlier that the photographer noted that it was a creative commons photo that required attribution.
Yo pot, have you met kettle yet?
All my(uncensored) internets to you.
If it was in fact legitimately aquired, why is the site design changed now?
What do you mean “Grow up”? Why are you offended by the statement? No where in his comment did he put down website designers. He said that Lamar Smith had nothing to do with the design himself, he just hired someone to do it for him and therefore doesn’t realize the infringement. So with that in mind, you are the one taking offense where none was given and are therefore acting like a misunderstanding child getting hurt over nothing. Grow up. And BTW, doesn’t matter if he knew about the infringement or not the guy is still a total f*ckstick and needs to be voted out.
He is equally liable as well under that law in addition to the host of the domain.
Doesn’t matter. According to SOPA it’s the site’s owner/operator who’s responsible for the content, no matter who put it there. (this is an example why Youtube could lose a lot with these bills)
Most likely youtube would cease to exist as it is and would simply turn into a media outlet similar to hulu instead.
+2
Objection!
They only know how much authoring and supporting it pays them.
HOLD ON!
They must know how it affects people even slightly, no-one can be that utterly moronic.
Actually, withdraw that statement. I just realised that we’re dealing with politicians.
Sadly we don’t have enough people waving money at them. I wonder how effective a donation drive to raise money to bribe them into not passing it would raise. I will fully admit that would start a very bad trend though.
Golfclap
I agree that he has no clue, but I’m not sure why you decided to ruin your own credibility by raging against the fact that you were ticketed for running a red light.
Um… I don’t see where Saturday Sportsman said he ran a red light…
You actually think he authored that bill? no, it was authored by media lobbyists and then handed to him with a wad of cash so he could put his name on the bottom.
Not to mention, he is not doing this because he agrees with it(obviously). The only reason bills like this exist is because of campaign contributions, and family funds.
Something tells me that Lamar Smith is going to die if SOPA gets passed.
nah
lets not kill ppl over this
I suggest instead if SOPA or PPa is passed we continue the efforts we’re doing untill a law is passed that makes passing SOPA or PIPa illegal
They already did it, around a hundred years ago, I believe it is called the first amendment. Anyways, who needs unalienable rights?
Heheh…
This actually does concern a human right, so I’m a bit confused why the UN hasn’t stepped in yet.
I just wrote the the UN’s Office of Human Rights, asking for the contact information of anyone who could help me find the answer to whether these are violations of our human rights or not.
0_o <mfw when I learned the Bill of Rights was signed in 1912…
Lamar Smith dies first, as an example and a warning, BEFORE SOPA passes. If they pass it anyway, then the others will be paid a visit.
I mean… what? I don’t know anything about a deadly plot…
^THIS
+1
Yes, and the music of life is Silence, my brother.
What is the color of night?
Sanguine. My brother.
You would think right? But I’ve thought the same thing about a slew of others that still walk around polluting the gene pool and using our oxygen.
you can look and see, the pictures are similar, but not the same. similar trees, but different locations. nice try, though.
And if you look even closer you’ll see that it is the same picture only cut in two and the left side is blown up to just above that grayish cloud-like object
Actually, it’s just that the original picture is cropped, so it looks different. Look again and compare each detail and other details that area around that location
I thought the same thing at first, but after giving it a more than cursory glance I came to the same conclusion as Psychotic Taco.
that doesn’t even look like the same background picture
it’s not the background.
I came here to say that I didn’t see the picture in the background, but after closer inspection he is a pirate
arrrr. a fine addition to me crew he be
this made me LOL
+10 gold pieces to ye
avast ye mateys! take ‘im to the brig!
hahahah That hair its False….Like S O P A and PIPA, LatinAMerica Its With YOU
PEACe From Uruguay
Vamos la celeste!
Pero quien sos vo?
sos uruguayo?
Because im uruguayan and american. I can tell you I hate SOPa and PIPa already
ARgentino viviendo en el hermoso paisito.. F**K SOPA and PIPA Vamo arriba la libertad
I don’t speak Argentinian but I have deduced that you are against SOPA.
Good deduction, Sherlock. (not meant to be sarcastic but comes across that way online)
Personally, I deduce that everyone with more IQ than the average cactus is against SOPA, because, well… they have more IQ than the average cactus.
HAHA dry humor ftw. +1
It’s funny because cacti are dry. xenophytes living in arid climates
Actually I’m aggainst SOPA too, and what do you mean an IQ higher than a cactus? Let me tell you, we are very smart plants.
^ +9001 respect for cacti everywhere.
Definately, don’t poke us with your quills man!
The just jump out when i least expect them…
Some girls in my Science class think that SOPA and PIPA is all fake and that some troll made the entire thing up.
They also said that they’re with SOPA because they don’t think It can do anything bad.
True Story.
That… makes me very sad for our planet. I really shouldn’t be surprised by it, but I kind of am. o.O
I’d like to meet those two girls… They sound dimwitted and easy… (:D))
Being stupid and easy they are certain to produce lots of babies.
Stupid People = Most Babies
Survival Of the Fittest and Human Evolution = Nullified
So that’s why politicians have many children!
Ever heard of “Idiocracy,” a movie? I don’t want our planet to be like that.
Give it a couple years.
A couple of years? Have you not kept up with the news lately?
I figured that movie was more satire orientated, since it already exists today instead of the future…
I think F**K is the same in any language…
I’ve even heard it (and S**T) in Asian films… where there’s no other English language words.
No… many languages have their own equivalents (e.g. French)
Spanish! They speak SPANISH in Argentina, not Argentinian!!!!!
Argentinian spanish? Hola?
Español de argentina :/ Meh, la cosa es que nadie quiere sopa ò.o/ ¡ABAJO SOPA!
You meant spanish, didn’t you?
Desde Venezuela, ¡también en contra de SOPA!
^ Esto
Ezio! Ezio Audiotore!
Ezio? Ezio Auditore De Forenze!
*Leonardo Da Vinci
*Firenze
Grammar Nazi trolling for the win. We shall track down a grammatical error in SOPA and/or PIPA and drive it into the ground.
*Leonardo da Vinci
*Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. My bad.
“The hair is false!”
I like that statement.
so thats the target ha..*get a sniper gun*
i be back with the good news
hopefully with some correct grammar, too
*Hopefully
*Hopefully,
*Hoppfully!
**Happifullie
*Hopefully!
*Hope filly!
*Volkwagen
*Volkswagen
*C-C-C-CORRECTION BREAKER!
C-C-C-CORRECTION RESTORER!
It’s too late… The damage is done…
TACOS
yeah, bad mouth the guy with a sniper riffle. and good intentions.
i wish i had a snipper riffle…
Then you could snip away that awful hair.
“How come I never get the sniper rifle!?”
Shut up, Tucker.
Hey chicka bum bum.
Would you like a sword instead?
I wouldn’t put a sniper riffle in the hands of someone incapable of simple grammar and syntax, just sayin’.
Rifle*
It was a joke, he was making gun of spakwee.
Also, he said “snipper”. Trimming devices can’t be shot at people, mate.
Get it? Making gun?
^I love you man!
I think ‘riffle’ is kinda nice… it’s like ‘rifle’, but more warm and fluffy.
Dumbass it’s from Knox’sCorner he meant to say it that way…
Sniper gun*
Viper Pun
The viper is comming.
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To clean your windows.
“Five seventy five. West corner. Top floor first.”
Best GI Joe episode. Ever.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this:
…
I mean… this.
ah thanks his blood will run in the streets all that stand in my way shall perish.
WHO TOUCHED SASHA?!?!
WHO TOUCHED MY GUN??
ummm, not sure if your just pushing it
He makes me sad to be a Texan.
I’m right with you.
Not crediting someone is not a copyright violation.
Using material withouth the author’s permission is a copyright violation.
Can’t tell if trolling……. or doesnt get the point
The image was released under creative commons license, which states (in part) that an image may be used so long as the creator of the image is credited.
The image is classified as a free-source document to be used by anyone at will under the authors own copyright terms. One of these respective terms is that by using the image the user agrees to credit the author. By not crediting the author mr. Smith here commited copyright infrigment. Perhaps unintended yes, but under SOPA and PIPA’s unforgiveness, his site would already be black listed and possibly blocked even before he could amend his mistake.
Actually, it’s copyright infringement if he used the image without the owner’s permission, regardless of whether he credited the person or not. What are the odds that this guy asked the photographer if he could use his photo though? So ultimately, he could still in fact be in violation of copyright.
What are the odds that this guy asked the photographer if he could use his photo though?:
almost certainly.
Yes it is.
Why do you think a lot of tv shows make up fake brands for shows, food, drinks, and so on? If they use Pepsi cans and don’t “credit” it, it means they didn’t pay for the logo to be used. It’s very odd.
But the photographer can take him to court if SOPA passes because the congressman did not pay the photographer to use his picture.
Which is what the congressman is using SOPA for, so people will get their “credit”.
lolu
trademark =/= copyright
Take to court? Do other violators get such treatment instead of a crude block?
They can end up in jail for 5 years per infringement.
depends on if the image was copyrighted
False.
Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not “register” or “apply for” a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention. As of September 2008, there are 164 countries that are parties to the Berne Convention.
TL;DR: You’re wrong. Copyrights are created automatically with the creation of creative works.
YEP! the default setting is “copyright to the artist/photographer/author unless otherwise noted.”
Regardless of whether it was copyrighted or not… He posted or used an image that wasn’t his for the BG of his Political website… Secondly, if he didn’t like the image he wouldn’t have ‘shared’ it to the rest of us… So isn’t he technically doing the same thing we do when we use or share an image on any other social site? That’s basically what the bill is taking away from us… So are you saying that it’s okay for him to do it just because he is some Troll in the Senate and we aren’t because we aren’t a Political Troll with money to throw around?
This.
Omg, there’s troll in the US Government?
Have all my internets, you deserve them.
Not at all. What is depends on is if the author gave permission for it to be used in such a way. If they said it was okay and told them credit wasn’t necessary, then it’s fine.
A lot of stock agencies and sites don’t require credit be given, and based on the nature of the photo, it easily could be from a stock site or agency.
Well not technically its not a copyright violation but it is illegal, its called Plagiarism. I’m not dissing you or anything I’m just making it clear to you that it is illegal
Plagiarism is not illegal.
Oh hell yes it is!
Did you not remember your days in English class where every year they said that plagiarism is illegal?
haha! you think plagiarism illegal?! you are such a dumbass. Actually all of you getting behind this are. Copyright is about permission, not citation. And i’m sure this guy has permission to use that photo. He would have to be an idiot not to get permission first, especially since he is a copyright protection freak. So before you ignorant losers start throwing legal stones around your glass house, at least know the law. This politician’s website is not in violation of any US copyright law (at least not as far as you can tell, you don’t know if he got permission from the rights holder, he probably did), and the creator of this image is actually in more violation than him because they probably did NOT get permission to use it, and they are also slandering the politicians name.
so SIT YOUR DUMB ASS DOWN if you dont know what your talking about
uhh…I don’t know what alternate universe you’re from, but in the universe that contains me, plaigerism IS illegal. Maybe YOU should “sit your dumb ass down” before trolling
But using it without permission is.
It was a stock photo, and according to the article this was posted in, the creators of the image claim that neither Lamar nor any of his agency ever contacted them getting permission for use. And that, my friend, is copyright.
I think it will be with this SOPA bill whatever, im not really following this whole thing, but i know it’s gunna be bad… D:
It is if they didn’t pay for the rights to use it. There’s two scenarios: The web designer purchased the rights as part of a package and did not credit the source of the package in the web footer or the image’s alt tab, which is standard practice and indicates it’s an amateur web designer. Or, the web designer did not purchase the rights from a package or from the photographer, and didn’t give a flying fig that he didn’t pay for or credit the original artist for the work – hence, piracy.
Heh heh… Flying fig…
Actually, with SOPA, it is. If the artist wanted to, he could take this to court and win since he was not credited and it would count as pirating since there probably was no written documentation stating that he could use it. He would ultimately lose that case and be fined or probably even charged.
Irony is a sarcastic b*tch, aint she?
SOPA isn’t law.
It will be if we allow it.
If it passed, he could try to do that. However there is a loophole that lets out folks like legislators from minor trials such as these and thus suffer no consequences from it.
Therefore, his only recourse would be to press litigation against the domain holder and blackout the website.
Doesn’t matter with SOPA. One word from the content industry lobbyists will blacklist your sh*t whether it’s a violation or not, and only through an expensive and complicated legal process can it be un-blacklisted.
Well if this is so then hackers! Take down his site and change the home page to say ” Taken Down By S.O.P.A.” That’d be a real kick in the ass lol
this^
Somebody deface that site….. hackedy hack hack
he…looks like my dad…
We joke about this, but a lot of people don’t understand how bad it will actually be if it gets passed.
We have to joke about it because it being implemented is a truly horrifying thought.
^this
What a jerk.
TROLLLLL LOLLLL
ಠ_ಠ this guy.
Hey!
As true as this is, this is not reason not to pas SOPA, the argument if fallacious (ad hominem), attacking the person, not the argument. It’s childish, it’s like saying someone is wrong because they are fat.
No, ad hominem is when you insult them when it is unrelated to the issue. If he can’t even follow the law he is trying to pass, it shows how flawed his argument is.
Plus, we’re not attacking the person, we’re attacking the web site. So the correct expression would be something like “Ad interretis locum” or whatever the word for interwebs is.
This sh*ts f*cked.
i think this is how the apocalypse starts……
YES!
^ This. If SOPA get through, better ready your shotgun.
If SOPA passes, will internet cost less?
It better…. In the US at least….
Actually it will cost more, due to many hosts not being able to enforce the law and being shut down. The ones that do, will have to employ more folks to police this for the MPAA, RIAA, EA, Vendevi, and Activision.
Scarcity + more overhead + fewer competitors = we’re screwed.
Plus he killed a cat and put it on his head.
this should be the new scumbag steve
scumbag smith
And the cap becoming the wig.
He could have bought the rights or used it with permission…
Lol, that is not the same back ground pic. Time to play “find the differences” lmao
It is the same pic but only the top half is used as the background. It’s been cropped. The original was likely a large resolution file and instead of using the full pic only a section was pulled out because the picture itself isn’t of interest. It’s the motif of colors to set atmosphere in the background that was ultimately desired.
Guys, there`s a petition going against this.
It`s worldwide, so you don`t have to be American for your vote to count.
Check it out. c:
avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?vc
Worthless.
Wrong. Not worthless. I don’t know exactly how you think Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, won their battles, but I can assure you it was through protesting.
Are you gonna say that this online petition can hold the same amount of power as a normal one?
One requires laziness whereas the other requires actually doing something… don’t put Ghandi and MLK in the same sentence as something as trivial as an online petition. It makes it sound like you are working as hard as they did for something that is nowhere near the same level of importance.
Don’t get me wrong, fighting SOPA is important, but compared to equality/freedoms?
I don’t see any of us running the streets, as a group… that would hold more meaning.
i would wear a guy fawkes mask. as would u
Already 1.4 Million People signed this petition. Its about telling your opinion. To stand up against the opression. To say it is worthless is like giving up
So give up and Stfu or do something
Oh sweet, an internet petition. That’ll solve our problems!
Isn’t it only appropriate we fix an internet problem with an internet petition?
It’s called an apostrophe. It’s next to the semicolon. You used accents. Yeah. I said it.
Iran, China And North Korea. Those are just a few countries that currently censor the internet. This is not just about piracy. This act will give the government power to censor anything they see fit. The beauty of the internet is that it allows for complete freedom and access to instantaneous information. Imagine a world where this is controlled. Because that is what’s going to happen. America is already half way there with news corporations like Fox controlling what information you get and the FCC controlling what they deem fit for you. This is borderline fascism.
FINALLY SOMEBODY FOUND THIS TOO.
Yet he says we’re using copyright.
FYI He’s a violator of copyright. >;D
Well, wooks wike Wamar Smif is gunna has tah be punished! He can haz fedewal pwison now?
Petitions are good. Email is better. Calling your Senator directly is best.
Recontra conchudazo el tipo.!!!!!
I went to a Lamar Smith website (a .house.gov one). Same guy – as far as I can tell; his toupee parts on the other side – but it didn’t look like that.
Y’all need to do this sort of thing for the websites of all your politicians. (love from overseas)
It’s not world wide. The Dumb Assed Americans like to Think they make up the rules for the World, but they Do Not!!! They can not Enforce their laws outside of the United States, nor can they impose them against the entire World Wide Web!
True, but sites like YouTube are run in the U.S., therefore they can be taken down by the U.S. so nobody anywhere can use them if SOPA passes.
Hm wow you’re an ignorant cuss.
Not ALL American’s are behind the bs idiots like you believe. So STFU and KNOW the REAL facts before opening that ocean mouth of yours.
You get a free ‘congratulations, dumbass’ sticker from me. A few things before it’s given to you, though.
1. The whole American population is not making up ANY rules for the world. This is the GOVERNMENT trying to censor OUR American-based websites. Has nothing to do with your sites in your neck of the world, though I can guarantee its effects will reach you since I’m positive the majority of sites you go on are, gasp, American.
2. This isn’t even about enforcing rules against the magical world wide web. Like I said, it’s about American websites. Not yours. It just so happens that some of the world’s most popular websites ARE based over.
Quit being such an ill-informed dumbass.
That aint the picture in the background, but still, he should furn in bucking hell.
It is; Look at the trees on the left of the website, and compare them to the trees in the top left of he picture. Draw a square from there.
That guy’s face looks fake…
All in all we (the people who commented before and I) do not want SOPA to pass.
I hate SOPA, but those two pictures aren’t the same. Nothing matches up…
It’s cropped, you just have to look harder.
I’ll call every senator in every state if it keeps these idiots from my internet. They need to just stay in their holes and stay quiet like they always do.
Your mission if you chose to accept it, is to assassinate this A-hole(Lamar Smith). The internet must be protected at all costs this Thread will self-destruct in 5,4,3,2…
He shat the toilet full to the brim and didn’t flush
I find it hilarious how his website background has changed.
how weird, he’s from texas!
I’m from Texas and i hate it as much as any of you. I’m not gonna lie, your right a lot of idiots are from here.
the government is where almost all idiots go. from texas and from every state.
*coughcough* Ron Paul anyone? From texas? Best pres candidate?
So you mean he would have to remove the offending material from his website by court order and his site wouldn’t get traffic until he did? Both of his viewers would be pissed for a week. That sure would learn him. /sarcasm
There is a grand possibility that the photo was taken from a stock photo website, and thus might not require credit (a lot of them do not).
He looks like Eduard Khil (Trololo Guy) :I
Why do terrible things come from Texas?
I’m not that bad ._.
ron paul? not bad? best pres?
Rooster Teeth (aka Achievement Hunter) is in Texas. I know what you mean, but still bad things come from Texas, but not Rooster Teeth
I’m not bad either D’:
Willie Nelson comes from Texas. So does Jeff Dunham. So does Lance Armstrong. So does Stevie Ray Vaughan. So does…(you get the point?)
Convince them to move north, east, or west from where they reside currently.
he looks like a dumb old idiot who knows nothing about the internet
Sweet mother Sweet mother, send your child unto me…
+1 dark brotherhood reference.
For the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.
for the sins of the SOPA must be baptized in blood and fear…
Looks like they redid it for fear of retaliation…too LATE it’s already being spread like wildfire and the original photographer is very much aware of what transpired. Hopefully he has a copy to bring up so he can sue Mr. SOPA to the fullest extent.
NIce!!!, epic fail from dumb senator( or whatever he is..)
a prick.
Same thing happened in Germany . . . Kauder was his name and he wanted to disconnect the internet of copyrights violators. But on his website there was a picture which he didnt have the right to use.
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This
I guess the point was “with censorship, they make me say what I didn’t say.
You don’t say!
No he didn’t, that’s the point
Heh. Llamar. As long as he doesn’t disrupt any teleportation experiments.
the gaming community is against SOPA and PIPA, and by extension anyone who owns an xbox, ps3, wii, portable console or any other console made after 1970.
if you own a console IT’S YOUR DUTY AS A GAMER to be against SOPA and PIPA. and if you’re not then you sir are attacking somebody’s freedom.
this is a form of terrorism (lol)
did anyone else notice that the pictures arent the same? look more closely at the height the green stuff stops on the sides, and where you see the tree start and trunk end. theyre very different… and if he did pay for the image on photostock or directly, its not copyrighted. if he payed for it.
Actually if you look again the one on the website is a cropped version of the other picture.
facepalm
ever hear about cropping?
I noticed! Plus, you’re right, if he paid for the picture, he’s allowed to use it any way he wants, credit or not.
wel its April Fools’ Day in 2 months and 12 days…..
Biggest troll ever?
yo dawg [censor censor censor...]
Desde Mexico No a la SOPA!!!!! Ajuaaaa
That awkward moment when you realize…
Summon the Low Orbit Ion Cannon!
Lamar Smif can haz federal pwizon now?
me gusta comer sopa
Gravity is not amused by SOPA. Gravity turn itself off now. Goodbye. *shuts down*
To be fair, he’s a Republican. He probably has no idea what it says since his corporate owners wrote it up and told him to go try to get it passed.
Both bills are sponsored by members of both parties. And both bills are opposed by members of both parties. This is the true definition of a bi-partisan act, which proves that that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Both parties are in the pocket of corporate america. Wake up. =/
If that were true, neither PIPA nor SOPA would have a chance because Google, Wiki, Youtube, and all those other sites are corporations, thus, part of corporate America.
SOPA and PIPA are bipartisan and this man is one of multiple co-sponsors, nice try though hater!
Just checked the site and it’s not there anymore. lol guess he’s a fan of Memebase.
I support this meme and political irony.
Stolen from 9gag and edited… right in the face (unless 9gag stole first and not credited)
No one gives a f*ck about where it was stolen from, so stfu.
all of ya’ll, yeah thats right. make memes to destroy this guy.
he looks like a pedophile. Is there a way to send him an e-mail telling him he’s a pedophile and that if SOPA passes he will be destroyed >;(
lets rally together!
i’m learning alot by reading these comments
Just want to put my 2 cents in. The song “Happy Birthday” is actually copyright, and I bet all the money I have that he’s going to sing it to each and everyone of his family members in the photo WITHOUT giving the proper credits to the owner. ISN’T COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FUN?!
Very. Although legislators like him are immune from such litigations.
i would just like to point out in NZ one of our pliticians voted for some dumb law which made sharing copyrighted content illegal broke it within 2 days as she didnt know filesharing counted if u gve ure friend a cd with music on so they could copy it to their pc.
tl;dr politicians r dumb.
This is a classic example of cutting the branch one is sitting on. Looks like thieves are making laws, if the law is passed. Hypocrites. Or, this congressman does not know the #$% he is talking about. Either way, this law is no good.
Now all you need to do is find his adress, bring a flame thrower, and NO MORE *This content has been sensored by SOPA* !
Some one call the dark brotherhood!
idk im new :F
darn someone already did that
hes a Texan!? I don’t want to live in this state anymore. i never really fit in anyway.
I feel sorry for the republicans having this guy on their side, and i’m a Democrat!
I honestly share the sentiment seeing as the guy who wrote PIPA is a Democrat, we need to put some bi-partisan support into stopping them both.
Yeah, because he totally created his own website..
Doesn’t matter, he’s still responsible for the content of his website.
exactly. same way youtube will get in trouble for people posting ponies
Why don’t we worry about all the illegal immigrants and welfare fraud before we start worrying about something so miniscule in terms of seriousness law breaking.
you don’t really seem to get it. SOPA is the government taking away our freedom.
He used to be a politician, then he take a cat on his head..
We should take this guy…
And explain him what the Internet is…
Plus, I’m sure he uses IE6… That MONSTER!
We all understand that we need to teach him but the real question is how. If we are to write him a letter we need to have a zip code from his area and use it on the letter, which is probably illeagle and will make him even more invincible. Ive looked everywhere and there are only 2 things we can do to affect him.1 is the previously mentioned, 2 is a physical protest. If we are to do the second one we will need to know where the supreme court is located, what date everybody leaves to go there, and who will lead it.
You sort it all out and i’ll eat a sammich
can’t we just JFK him?
lol
Soon my friend
soon…
I think the question is this: was the picture he used copyrighted in the first place? Remember that there is some paperwork that must be submitted in order to copyright something. It is entirely possible that the picture was not copyrighted at all. I don’t support the guy, I’m just saying that he might not be a pirate.
See earlier comments, if you can be bothered to. :3
i support these anti-sopa/pipa/acta memes 100% but those are definitely two different pictures
the background is cropped from the center of the original.
Oh I’m sorry sir your face is copywritten. I’m afraid we’ll have to blacklist it now.
NDAA > SOPA + PIPA
Can anybody guess the moral of this story? It’s kinda the same as that of some comments… “Think before you speak.” Mario American… ha! And politicians the problem? Don’t we, as a republic, vote many of our officials in? If we’re foolish enough to vote in liars, adulterers, movie stars, wrestlers, comedians and TWO Bush’s… doesn’t that show a bit of a bad judge of character? And when it seems like the most important qualities in a politian are party, religion, sexuality (may I add that race and gender are close behind)… it seems that general intelligence and dependability aren’t very important at all. You have to take in the overall intelligence of the American citizens. I don’t kmow about you, but I run into so many dumb people that the Professor Farnsworth meme is more than reasonable. It seems that the majority of people are focused on what is most important and what really needs to be done. To paraphrase Dawkins “– American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.”
he has a weird name, and looks like a pedophile. :\ Llama? Lamer? :\ meehrr i wouldnt trust a guy that looks like that anyway. What do trees/shrubs have anything to do with Politicians anyway. :\
That pic has some features that are completely different from the one that is mentioned as a photograph. Similar in color and mood but the details are totally not even close.
the details are very close. like the same lighting and number of branches on the same trees… it’s cropped but it’s the same.
LOL, Lamar? You mean the headcrab from Half-life 2?
you mean the Headhumper
Let’s f-ck his sh-t up btw I first read Lamer, not Lamar. Irony b-tch!
He accidently the internet.
Someone contact this DJ Schulte and let him sue Lamar!!
Ah, so he’s from texas
BANNED!
Someone should REALLY troll this guy if SOPA passes… Sue him for copyright violation (or whatever it is) based on this!
I sincerely hope Lamar gets his ass sued by the photographer.
^ That.
Comment removed by the US Government.
That’s not even the same picture…
obvious toupet is obvious.
How do you know he doesn’t have permission to use it?
AMERI-C-U-N-T-S
So THAT explains it. I knew a headcrab would’ve wrote something of the sort.
i’ve been reading all over the internet about this freakin’ sopa and i’m already done with it .
isn’t shoving your opinion and the way you want it down everyones throat called facisme.
i live in holland so i do not have direct involvement with this sopa but still i think this is just screwed up.
so stand up for your freedom.
- People should not be affraid of their goverment , goverments should be affraid of their people
how do you know, that he didn’t pay royalties to use said image???
The issue is not that he didn’t give the photographer credit for the image the issue iis did he pay for the right to use the image! I’ve never seen credit given for any photo I’ve ever seen in a restaurant, on a menu or at any drive thru but I can guarantee you they paid for the right to use the images. If he paid for the right to use the image then he is in the clear – whether he gave the photographer credit or not. By the way…. I am a professional photographer and I am totally fine with the fact that he didn’t give credit as long as he paid for the right to use the image. I sell the rights to use my images all the time & I rarely ever get credit for them. I am totally fine with that.
(censored)
It looks like it but it looks very different
someone had to of changed it somehow
maybe…a use of internet?
*Mindblown*
Lamar Smith is not the only one with dirty hands pushing SOPA & PIPA, most of the people pushing this law popularized piracy themselves so they have a pretext to enforce this law!
http://paranoidnews.org/2011/12/the-people-behind-sopa-the-are-ones-responsible-for-a-good-share-of-all-the-piracy-on-the-internet-so-they-have-an-excuse-to-shut-it-down/
and
http://paranoidnews.org/2011/11/goodbye-internet-internet-kill-switch-ready-to-be-used-they-call-it-sopa-2/
All of them are corrupt @holes trying to kill the Internet so they can replace it with their pathetic, POS cable TV programing! But they need to take down the competitors first, like the Cheezburger Network, Wikipedia, Reddit and other wonderful sites. This goes beyond piracy and copyright issues!!
You all had to know that the internet would get policed eventually, right? Like, it can’t stay “the wild west” forever.
The problem is that PIPA and SOPA aren’t really about policing the internet, they would fundamentally destroy the internet. Imagine if you turned on your computer tomorrow and memebase no longer existed, or wikipedia, or google, or facebook. Or any social networking site, photo sharing site, video sharing site, search engine, or any other website that could potentially promote or harbor “pirated materials”. Sites based out of the US that violate these bills would be shut down and sites outside of the US would be unavailable to US residence.
If the bill doesn’t get shot down, if people are willing to be controlled and censored then other countries will try to pass similar legislation. Eventually the internet will die and we will be back to an age before easily and freely shared information.
And why stop there, these are the same people who wanted VHS technology banned due to it’s potential use for piracy. Imagine if writeable disks were no longer availalbe, no flash drives or external media because they could be used to pirate copywrited materials.
This may sound extreme, but this is what people like Lamar Smith are working towards. Eventually they’ll even try to censor what people say and do. It’s not policing if they are taking rights away from people. It’s not policing to punish people for what they have the potential to do.
Take the time to watch these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM&feature=share
That is what SOPA and PIPA are really about.
its not the same background… look at the trees…
I don’t know if anyone noticed but we are fast, approaching, and becoming a fascist state. Think about it, the lobbyist control congress with all the money they give. The people in congress go in with not much and come out millionaires. We need to stop all the money from lobbyist, and special interest, and put time limits on them. Who do you really think runs this country anyway? It’s a sad state of affairs. Remember, be strong, be very aware, love all you can, and keep the faith at all cost. peace.
guantanamo it is then!
What’s a copyright vibrator?
Never heard of it… sounds like fun!
These people think they’re above the law! We’re not living in what should be a ‘modern’ age where the law applies to everyone (and even that concept is ancient, going as far back as the 10th century), but they think the law and everything else applies only to the non-elite, while the guys at the top can literally do as they please with you, your money, and everything you have.
Crab people IRL…
Crab people
Episode South Park is Gay!
South Park Studios
.l. Lamar
the level of that win is too damn high
the worst part of cencurship is █████████ ███████!
FAILER!
Why isn’t this on the Fail page?
Uhh… Those are not the same pictures.
Yes, they are, the one used on the website is just zoomed in.
he suck…..u know real “suck”
This is the same a$$h0le who refused to consider plea’s for the Ending of the Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act. He is the epitome of d0uchebaggedness.
Toupè.That is all.
Just wanted to point out one fact…it was actually a bipartisian committee that created the bill, not just him…This guy is just the one who actually indroduced it into congress.
it’s not the same picture.
Wait, copyright doesn’t require credit, it requires permission. Come on people, learn the basics.
he is a hypocrite who says what he wants trying to put his thoughts and ideals on others and cutting right to freedom of exprecion