Darrell Issa says the bill sucks and ammends that search engines and dns filtering wont work, this is supported by Lofgren, Sanchez, and Chafetz at the beginning of the hearing. Chafetz calls the people on the internet "the nerds of the world," LOL.
Issa continues to educate the house that "hyperlinks are words, and you cant stop the printed word" he's saying that the bill should be handled more like patent reform. and wants to at least have more hearings not just default to one hearing.
Mel Watt is a slow speaker. and admits he doesn't know anything about technology. And thinks that the bill will not stop criminal action, but still wants to pass the bill just to reduce the criminal actions. He thinks the DMCA wasnt effective, so thats why there needs to be a more dramatic bill. He likes to remind people that he's "not a nerd" Still uses a typewriter I'm sure. He's completely ignorant on the internet and is allowed to pass legislation on technology he knows absolutely nothing about.
Mr. Berman another slow speaker thinks that the people who work on the internet haven't been coming forth to tell the house that they are being dumb. http://sensenbrenner.house.gov/ tells berman that he's only got a copy of the bill a few days ago, and hasn't been able to analyze it. Berman is talking about the length of time that this bill has been put forward, but also admits that there should have been ample time to think about the issues.
Sanchez is putting forward a suggestion to delay the hearing to bring in more experts. Berman is saying he's been trying for years to bring them in, but they haven't shown up. Sanchez is saying that they will now. Berman doesn't care.
Mr. Goodlatte has http://www.innovationpolicy.org/ as a site that supports SOPA, who the heck are these guys? says DNS filtering is fine and it's an innovation. This guy sucks.
Mr. Perlusi notes that we should respect "nerds" suggests that to continue the markup and to delay the passing of the bill. Sanchez asks for a technical hearing to cover the bill. Lofgren says the Goodlatte's arguements are supported by people funded by the MPAA (zing!) and is saying they're paid liars. (poking at Mel Watt)
California Lungren rep says that there is controversy and offers to delay the hearing as well, expecting that there would be technical people present at this hearing. He also puts forward that the facts are incomplete. He's telling the chairman that saying "because you don't have a better answer, you can't stop the bill" which is "a red herring" so we should change his opinion and wait for a better way to rule on the bill. He also opts to not pass the bill if you dont understand it.
Mr. Issa is asking for experts to show up. Computer IT folks should pay more attention to this shit... http://www.netcoalition.com/ was mentioned by Issa to show up
Mel Watt is talking again, about who's been bought off. and talking about a lot of money floating around, and is being defensive about his position. So, he's being defensive because he's obviously been in his own words: "been bought off" He also passed laws on derivatives (responsible for the crash of 2008) so Mel Watt has a history of bad decisions.
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