Stop Online Piracy Act

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Bah to term limits. Wouldnt change anything except open up a revolving door and expose a fresh batch of greenhorns to the joys of institutional corruption on a regular basis.

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I think it would reduce how many people in office are completely out of touch with what's going on in the real world. There are people in office, making decision's on laws who have NO CLUE what this shit is even about. That have been sitting in the same seat for 20 - 30 + years. There should be no more Strom Thurmonds.

I'm not saying it should be a 1 term limit, nothing would get done then. Because like you said we'd have a constant stream of greenhorns. Give them a couple terms, after that though they should be out. No one should be in the same political office for life.

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Originally Posted by Josh

On topic.

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So it sounds like the SOPA bullshit is already happening before SOPA passes. Let's not give them a bigger stick to overreact with then?

Nah, that's got nothing to do with SOPA. While it was a totally dick move on Universal's part, and everyone involved in the deal and its implementation should be hanging from a lamp post by day's end as an example to others on how not to conduct legitimate business, the video's removal was a result of a legitimate contract between two private companies. Google/Youtube needs to respond to this quickly, though, and so far all I've seen is silence.

James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM

pretty good video outlining sopa and how bullshit it is (also touches on related gaming site aspects)

that's what I mean - without SOPA, companies still find ways to pull content that, even by ambiguous, non-protected standards they find issue with. So the "need" for SOPA is non-existent. It only serves to give further wide berth by people to bully in such obtuse ways - and for it to all be lawful to boot, without the need of paying out to third parties for contracts like UMG has with Youtube.

Let's not all pretend like Megaupload is some super legitimate company.

I'm not.

I wonder if SOPA would end dropbox and a lot of cloud computing projects? Since you know, you can easily share copyright material with them.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

Let's not all pretend like Megaupload is some super legitimate company.

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Haters gonna hate.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

Let's not all pretend like Megaupload is some super legitimate company.

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That has nothing to do with it. It could be fucking Piratebay, they should still be allowed to post original content on Youtube.