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The Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: jmsozzy on Dec 21 2011, 11:40 PM
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STOP SOPA! Michael Mozart cNBC PIPA Protect IP Sue Public cNet BitTorrent Pirate Bay Reddit Anon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb-_p2q90PA#ws)
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It's just as I've been saying at other places, there's just no way something like this will come to pass. It completely violates the very freedom that the country stands for. Plus, Obama, at one point, outright said that he'd veto it.
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is canada affected ?
or it's just for us and eu ?
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politics isn't quite my cup of tea but...everyone in support of this is a sheep that should wake up, and realize that they're helping out in the erection of a draconian internet censorship machine that will bring not only an end to online piracy, but the end of user-generated content, derivative works, who knows whatelse, and ultimately the end of the internet as we know it.
i'm all in to keeping online piracy at bay and don't condone it, but this bill and PIPA alongside it is too extreme. the concequences far outweigh any possible benefit they'll have.
so to hell with these bills. if i ran some big entertainment company, i'd rather continue to cope with how things are now if stopping online piracy also means having to fuck everyone's freedom over.
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So, apparently, some of the companies who previously supported SOPA have recently dropped their support. (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/nintendo-ea-and-sony-also-rescind-sopa-support/) It's nice to know that they're finally coming to their senses. In addition to Obama's claim that he would veto it, this makes that bill even less likely to pass.
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sonic retro has plans to black itself out in protest next week, some other high-profile websites like google are going to blackout too.
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http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/white_house_opposes_sopa_congress_drops_bill/ (http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/white_house_opposes_sopa_congress_drops_bill/)
VICTORY
you're next, PIPA
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I knew it wouldn't pass. I just couldn't see the U.S. OK'ing something that deprives people of the very freedom that the country strives for.
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Im now on Obama's side again.
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I knew it wouldn't pass. I just couldn't see the U.S. OK'ing something that deprives people of the very freedom that the country strives for.
and yet obama OK'd the military to indefinately detain civillians without trial or charge (NDAA) despite protest and wide opposition, but that's a different can of worms
anyways SOPA is still alive, they only shelved it for now and we won't be hearing of it till next month.
PIPA is being voted on next week, keep knocking sense into 'em, its just as big a threat alone, don't rest until both bills are left to burn in a fire
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http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/index.htm (http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/index.htm)
ROT IN LIMBO YOU DEMONS
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Isn't SOPA and PIPA being "postponed indefinitely" a good thing? Or am I misinterpreting something, here?
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means we won't be hearing of them for a long time
even lamar smith and the ESA are backing down, safe to say we damn well nailed 'em in the balls
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Recently, I've heard that there's another bill they're trying to pass, called "ACTA" (Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement), which is supposedly worse than both SOPA and PIPA. It's essentially the same, but the reason this one's considered worse, is because it's world-wide, and not just U.S. exclusive.
What Is ACTA ? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0#ws)
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well great great grandmother of god...if the government is this hell-bent on destroying the internet for the sake of intellectual property and filling bloody hollywood's vaults, my fantasies of the internet collapsing into chaos are this close to becoming reality
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wow. what a bunch of pricks cbs, warner, and the whole lot of them, are!!!!
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soapy's coming back with a vengeance
http://www.complex.com/tech/2013/08/sopa-felony-copyright-streaming (http://www.complex.com/tech/2013/08/sopa-felony-copyright-streaming)
obummer and friends are bringing soapy back from the dead, aiming to felonize copyrighted content streaming, including derivitive works
lock n' load
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a new beast rears its head - trans-pacific partnership agreement, or TPP
should the circus allow it to pass, it'll destroy the internet and more
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53f3f027e4b0b6d7d61aca78/t/5558e6c4e4b081dbcc270f69/1431889607544/
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https://openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/tpp%20infographic_0.png
http://img15.deviantart.net/5d71/i/2014/009/0/2/stop_the_tpp_youtube_channel_banner_by_themacchinamustfall-d71k0p1.png
http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/1arrt.jpg?itok=Y_pTgK_I
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/50/19/4c/50194ccd962291ff5014e23df9cec4ab.jpg
https://openmedia.org/sites/default/files/blog/TPP_IPvsEnv_403x403x140115v2_0.png