Digital Dilemma Debate: #SOPA : IP, Privacy v. Productivity

Al Gore purportedly once claimed that he helped invent the Internet, and if he actually maintains intellectual ownership, if not parenthood (a DNA test might address the latter), given the spike in stories profiling the ease by which virtually any/every form of digital communication can be easily hijacked or hacked, I extend my personal thanks to Al for inspiring my latest idea; one that might resolve the entire debate surrounding SOPA, the ill-conceived legislation intended to mitigate online piracy.

Background: Last week the 24/7 news cycle was a flutter with the arrest of Megaupload senior execs  [for those of you that might have suffered from an electrical brownout and weren't able to access news stories on the net and have since stopped subscribing to cable TV and print publications because you're now a 100% Webbie] this is was one of several leading e-file sharing platforms that enable users to electronically ship (or simply store) content, whether it be copyrighted, patented or simply private/proprietary information. Despite denials from government officials, the arrest of these executives was precipitously part and parcel to proponents' efforts to push through SOPA legislation.

And, for those not aware, including US senators and Congresspeople who were lobbied with steak dinners to support the SOPA initiative, there's since been a whopper of a backlash; many of the leading internet-based companies that were caught off-guard as the legislation was being formulated, have since raised their swords to challenge government intervention of the Internet. They argue that the Internet is a public domain that should not be regulated, even if Al Gore influenced the US Government to underwrite and develop this now ubiquitous and most pervasive form of global communication/interaction.

Per today's prior posting here, we profiled the NYT story re: the easy-to-open back doors of  web-based video conferencing. Coincidentally, today's WSJ carried a separate story "Hackers-For-Hire", detailing the ease by which anyone (not just law enforcement agencies) can hijack email account passwords and capture insightful and potentially incriminating information embedded within just about any email correspondence.

OK, even if our latest idea might not be our own,  because our recent proposal to "shut down the internet for 6 hours a day" has been met with ridicule by those that have said "you can't put the genie back in the bottle", this idea is bound to be a winner, which is why we've acquired the licensing rights to, and will soon merchandise a device that will re-revolutionize the art of personal relationship marketing and business development.

This idea will not only reinvigorate the US manufacturing sector (until of course, the Chinese are outsourced to make the devices), but it will re-start the art of one-to-one, direct personal communication, which by default, will impact a broad spectrum of businesses that have found themselves disintermediated by the advent of communication applications that diminish the need to actually meet in person with the people that you do business with. This will be a boon to the travel, lodging and restaurant industries, to name just a few.

Here it is--and happy Monday!: