Cromwell Record Riot, Cromwell Ct
Sunday 29 January 2012
9:30am to 3:30pm
Crowne Plaza Hotel
100 Berlin Road
Cromwell, CT 06416
exit 21 off I-91
Admission $3
Early admission at 8 AM $10
LP’s 45′s CD’s DVD’s more more more
Internet strike day is Wednesday January 18th. In a protest against the SOPA and PIPA legislation moving through the US Congress, many major sites (Wikipedia, Reddit, Internet Archive) will go dark for 12 hours. Of course, NYRecordFairs does not have the reach of these sites, but we want to do our small part to help.
Both of these pieces of legislation are harmful to the internet itself, to innovative business and will not achieve what their sponsors say they will. There are precise ways to prevent foreign websites from pirating US content and they are already written into law. There already ways to prevent counterfeit physical products. We do not need overly broadly written bills which conflate three different areas of law (physical, digital and technical).
You can read more at:
EFF.org SOPA Action page
AmericanCensorship.org
SopaStrike.com
“SOPA” Tag at Techdirt
“Music Lust”
Sunday January 22, 2012
Ramada Inn (formerly Clarion) 3 Watervliet Ave. Albany NY
Further details iavarone222 AT hotmail DAWT com)
Show hours: 10:00 – 5:00
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