Protests against GoDaddy who came out in support of it; urging people to boycott and moving away from using it. Which I am fine with cause GoDaddy sucks.
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Protests against GoDaddy who came out in support of it; urging people to boycott and moving away from using it. Which I am fine with cause GoDaddy sucks.
I've never dealt with them, but their cheesy advertising has always annoyed me.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...t-for-sopa.ars
they folded faster than superman on laundry day lmao
e: still, don't buy internet domains through them they're horrible
Do something you guys! Create a White House account sign the anti sopa bill. I did we have already broken the 25,000 threshold. I even emailed Obama. Quit bitching and sign the petition.
Something that really bothers me about this, is that we have a board that has a higher intellect than others yet nobody sees the real issue on hand. This isn't about stoping piracy but having a Government mandated and controlled internet like other asian countries. This is phase one. Even the owner of OPENDNS has tried to have congress use filters. I hate OPENDNS which I have to control for work but once you block proxies you can't even change settings it reconfigures your computer, even with aftermarket tools.
I've always felt that they were using piracy/IP as an pretense to throw in a Great Firewall of China. Some supposed members of the two parties might actually be neither R nor D, but rather Fascist (Who would vote for a confessed Fascist? Of course they'll mingle to camouflage their true intents.).Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
If this passes, what next? Are we going to have to strike "land of the free" from the National Anthem? I heard that some corporatist jackoffs actually tried to overthrow FDR and turn the USA into a Fascist state (Thank God they failed).
Yeah it's a cover to a start communist America, where Governing powers can control what we are allowed to read the piracy is smoke and mirrors. I agree the problem is when you pass a bill like this it never stops.
It pisses me off this isn't about piracy nobody fucking sees this!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertco...piracy-theory/
I don't think you even need the conspiracy theory to see how it's not about piracy at all. I wrote an op ed about this, we'll see if any papers pick it up.
Let's see the editorial. I have one too but you never mentioned why intelligent games here can't see thru the bullshit. Yo even TNL has ads for downloading pirated material. It's moving into complete Government controlled and Time Warner controlled internet. Podcast couldn't see the truth either. Does yours touch on the aspects of the NWO and the Illuminati? Key points in an Editorial.
Frog after I thought about it I realized you were joking, funny thing I wasn't.
http://youtu.be/G7mj8BaW6S8
Video went viral
News about possible Government controlled internet I called it first.
http://techpresident.com/news/21529/...hip-accusation
I support SOPA/PIPA 100%. Just because Korian would be allowed to shut down TNL forever by posting Eminem videos.
Another odd thing Tupac videos's are mysteriously missing from Youtube, and the reboot of Youtube came at an interesting time.
Remember when this was a serious thread about serious issues? Maybe those days will return when post-holiday movement on the bill resumes.
James
Did you watch that viral video James?, it is serious.
The video has 476 views. It's not viral by any stretch of the imagination.
I know SOPA is bad and needs to not happen, but 15-minute long conspiracy theories aren't helping.
James
Can't post something that I'm trying to get published.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
And no, it's not a conspiracy thing.
James the one I put on is a viral of a viral it is now up to millions.
http://youtu.be/0hZMXhoI95A
So it doesn't touch on the NWO? Why farm an editorial out when you can post it here? I need info soon, I'm working on something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
in the latest sopa news, comcast has no idea what the fuck they're doing
I'm not surprised that the suits at Comcast have no idea how their core products work.
E-PARASITES Act
The House version of Protect IP is also known as E-PARASITE, short for Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation.
I think the short form of the name suits it even better. It sure sounds like a parasite leeching away at our freedom.
Bob Goodlatte is The Lyin' King. No serious effort has been made to fix the things wrong with Senate PIPA, contrary to his promises. Fuck you, Badlatte.
Those in favor of SOPA/PIPA/E-PARASITE should be shipped off to China to work with Hu Jintao. I can see China, Iran, and North Korea pointing and laughing if this bill is passed.
Those countries don't care what we do. They all think we're inferior or assholes already.
http://media.nowpublic.net/images//9...baa99c09ad.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Korian
so, how much longer until thought crimes are a thing? 4 years? 5?
(e: this is directed at all these crazy fucking laws coming down the tubes this year -- sopa/pipa/this parasites thing/ndaa; I'll be honestly shocked if the year doesn't conclude with some kind of a civil uprising in america)
Anyone that thinks that pirates won't adapt and circumvent whatever laws and technical measures these bills contain is shockingly naive.
I hope by this time next year everything is so heavily encrypted that the internet will be more wild west than ever and all this nonsense blows up in the faces of these sleazy lobbyists and politicians.
The thought of this makes me hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
No one thinks this. The intent here is not to reduce piracy, any more than the intent of the Patriot Act was to love your country.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
They know exactly what they're doing, here. They're gunning for Youtube, not Pirate Bay. Why else would they include provisions in it to cover things like non-commercial live performances of song covers and footage of video games? They're not stupid, they know what they're doing.
yeah piracy is just the scapegoat here, the real intention is to pretty much stifle creative freedom because big media can't monetize it
No one wants to compete with free content.
Not this year but I expect something within 5-10. It's nice to dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
By the way! Funfact about SOPA. Apparently it cannot effect American domains! if it's .com or .org it won't be effect. Unless it's like .ru or something like that! Which meanssssssssss
Pirate Bay wouldn't be affected by SOPA! Good work team.
Tenses.
I'm almost certain it's the opposite -- that any "Internet entity" that falls under the jurisdiction of the US would have to comply. Depending on how you want to interpert that, it could mean:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
- Any Internet service using a domain name from a registrar in the US (this would include every .com, .net, and .org as Verisign is in the US -- and potentially every generic TLD, as ICANN is still chartered under the US Department of Commerce).
- Any Internet service using a domain name registered with a US registrar, regardless of the TLD (the three biggest ones are GoDaddy, eNom and Network Solutions -- and they're all US-based companies).
- Any Internet service using an IP address issued by ARIN (which would include a lot of computers outside of North America, given how wacky IP allocation has gotten with the pool of IPv4 addresses drying up).
Never mind the strain this would put on routing and DNS resolution in the US; it would be a total mess. I think if this actually went into effect, you would quickly see some form of distributed DNS system developed (there's already been some theoretical work done in regards to this) and would probably accelerate the transition to IPv6 but not IPv7, because D:, which would make enforcement a total joke.
My apologies if this has been posted, but I found it hysterical:
Comcast, a SOPA supporter, just upgraded their network to be incompatible with the standard SOPA would use.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...V-website.html
he did nothing wrong, hosted no illegal content -- just aggregated links -- but it's still about 90% sure he'll get jail time (likely more than pedophiles and murderers, in fact)
swap tv shows with leaked pre-release video game footage and that guy could be nick if this these stupid laws pass
To be extridited from the UK to the US the person would have to be accused of a serious offence that is illegal in both countries, and from what I know about British IP law I'm not certain what he did was illegal there, and at the most it would be a civil trial. I can't believe it didn't get smacked down in the British courts.
IMO Britain's government should say "Fuck You Yankee Bastards!" to the US prosecutors. This is not something that's worth an extradition, especially when European law differs from US law. There should not have been a criminal charge, since he didn't post the content. Judge Quentin Uggley (yup, right up there in the Hall of Lame with Lamer Smith, Amy Slobuchar, and Bob Badlatte) should be sacked. Hopefully someone above his position can overrule him.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Copyright Nazis hate free speech. One country isn't enough for these whores- it sure seems they won't rest until they control the world. Fuck them all and their lobbyist johns.
Freedom of speech is dying. People really need to start getting more vocal about this type of thing.
The day where both PIPA and SOPA appear to be at the deepest point of their downward spiral towards not even getting voted because of how vocal people are about them is not the day to post this out of touch bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Our country and the internet community are setting a pretty strong precedent for what is to be expected with this kind of bullshit and that sure as fuck isn't that we won't be vocal.
The only thing about this that makes me feel icky is that he made almost a quarter of a million fucking dollars doing this.Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
Even I feel like that should not be ok. As soon as you start making money off pirating, even if it's as a middle man, it goes into this whole new level that makes me super fucking uncomfortable. He still shouldn't go to jail though, if anything he should have to forfeit the money.
Side note:
Attachment 64256
Has anyone else signed the donation survey for Wikipedia going black to protest this shit?
I signed it. I probably owe them a few bucks anyway for all the school work they've help me do. And if they went off line in protest it MIGHT actually make the news.
Google, and a bunch of others were talkIng about doing this too.
I just donated to wikipedia like a month ago, fuck off.
If they sued him in British court for that money and won I would be fine with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Imprisoning people for copyright infringement is some tyrannical bullshit.
Obama came out against these bills. Hopefully he'll veto
And not just "sign with an objecting statement."Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Still, this is a big step, he definitely earned a bit of credibility with me for that.
QFMFT. A small wristslap fine should be enough. Major civil penalties should be enough if there's profit involved- just have him return the money gained, if even anything must be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
It's good to know Obama has our back on this one. I don't want the SOPA supporters thinking "Well if we change this and that... yada yada... maybe Obama will approve it", since even a defanged SOPA would still suck. It looks like these clowns are going to hopefully learn a lesson.
If this passes congress and gets vetoed, I'll vote for Obama in November.
I'd like to think it won't make it past congress; if any of my reps vote for it I'll vote against them, and probably tepee their house.
That'll show em!
The tepee will be on fire.
Molotov teepee?
shit on his front porch
also http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-c...4493/#46004493
They really have defanged SOPA a great deal, but the one thing they haven't removed, and the main reason it exists, it to undo the safe harbor established by the DMCA, and that's still worth worrying about.
That's what I was afraid of. You can remove some of the shit from the sandwich, but it's still a shit sandwich. So as I insinuated a bit ago, the only good thing to do with the bill is to totally 187 it. Some musicians are fuming over the fact that SOPA & PIPA exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Reverse SOPA, get APOS: A Piece Of Shit. Some things make more sense when read backward.
Fuck Rupert Murdoch for his slamming Obama and supporting these bills from Hell. Thanks to GOG for their position against SOPA & PIPA.
cry harder mpaa your tears are delicious
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...75808320120115
SOPA shelved indefinitely: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/pol...helf034765.php
Sounds like the rest of the House is even going to vote down PIPA if it makes it their way.
Protect IP is still out there though.
The very nature of a bill being shelved is "indefinite", they could bring that shit back whenever the fancy strikes 'em. Don't think it dead.
Man, it's about time for the big tech companies to create a bill that DOESN'T kill the internet.
As much.
"indefinite" in Congress parlance is pretty much forever, at least in its current form.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Or until we all get distracted by a war.
Once the elections are over, Obama won't give a fuck about greenlighting the bill. I actually expect it from anyone who gets the presidency, really.
The bill was killed in the House. Reps are always up for re-election, by design.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
So, are ya'll shutting down the site tomorrow or are ya'll going to puss up?
If TNL isn't down tomorrow, Nick and cka support nazi-ism
...or just really hate Opaque.
Oh god dammit.
A big "SUCK IT HARD" to those who sponsored SOPA. Let's hope Obama doesn't waffle after re-election.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Obama's statement is a good sign, but not the crushing blow that we're waiting on. Lamer Smith hasn't given up.
Here's something not so nice, dated the 17th.
SOPA Markup to resume in February
The demon will rear its ugly head again, albeit with a few battle scars.
And the 18th?
Obama did not kill SOPA
Prison Planet: The secret behind SOPA
Joe Lieberman is not our friend. He is against internet anonymity and endorses real-name registration. Fuck him also.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-in-senate.ars
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/te...urse.html?_r=1
After today these bills are fucking dead. They might not be literally dead, but they have about zero chance of going anywhere now.
Until people are distracted by something and they get rewritten and disguised as something else.
Wait for it.
There's no doubt that the copyright cartel wants a lot of this stuff. They'll try to sneak this under again, in a different form, no doubt. I just hope the technology industry is better organized next time around, and doesn't need to resort to what are basically stunts to make a point. The blackout was extremely effective (to the point where Chris Dodd, who only 4 years ago was trotting out the Constitution/freedom bromides in his failed Presidential bid, threw all shreds of his respectability and dignity out the window in a ridiculous rant) but it won't work again.
There's currently a lot of money being thrown behind an anti-SOPA/PIPA lobby group, so I guess fighting fire with fire is the next tactic for stopping this nonsense.
Well, that's the thing. I don't think the technology lobby was developed enough to take on the copyright lobby, and hopefully they are now.
Sad but this is how America *really* works. The copyright lobby was working on this bill for years, before it hit the light of day. Regular folks simply have no way of keeping up with this garbage.
so uh, yeah... I guess this is going to be the future of the internet?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369
That sort of thing has been happening for a while already, even without these POS bills.
yeah but megaupload does have legitimate users, so burning down the farm just to kill a chicken really is overkill and will put at risk every sort of similar site on the internet should sopa and pipa pass (e: and don't get lulled into a false sense of victory, the bills are still very alive despite losing massive support yesterday)
I'm glad I grabbed my CM9 touchpad rom last night instead of waiting until today
e2: I guess in a way, megaupload getting taken offline should/will become the alpha example of why we don't need SOPA and PIPA
I guess those guys shouldn't have released that Megaupload music video!
That's probably what caused this. Universal was not happy about "its" stars agreeing to appear in that music video. So Universal got its government lackeys to take action.
It's still not going to matter in the long run. These sites are like a hydra: cut off one and you'll get two in its place.
But a site that has massive piracy, that courts that piracy to gain users (like, ahem, Youtube early on), but that just happens to get used by a few Linux distros... it's really not legitimate.Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
RIP Megaupload
You were my favorite uploading site.
wait whatQuote:
The Hong Kong-based company listed Swizz Beatz, a musician who married Keys in 2010, as its CEO. Beatz declined to comment through a representative.
Fuck the authorities.Quote:
In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom who was arrested today in New Zealand, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment:
• Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
• Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
• Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
• Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
• Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
• Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega websites.
Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.
Really, the graphic designer?
What the shit did he do? Create orange and yellow banner ads to entice people into downloading illegal mp3s?
Come on.
That's the sort of thing that they would put in the indictment. Surely you know this.
what what?? CM9 is on touchpad already!!?Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
The Internet hacked UMG's, RIAA's and Department of Justice's websites as 'retaliation' to Megaupload's closure.
Ddos isn't hacking you idiot
DDOS attacks never get old.They also took down BMI, Copyright.gov, and hacked MPAA chief Chris Dodd's personal website and dumped the database of the Utah Chiefs of Police association website with personal details and logins.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyoung
ayop, ice cream sandwich to boot... super rough alpha though, probably not worth upgrading yetQuote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Another one for the Copyright Cartel Fourth Reich. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by cka
I hope Ortmann/Dotcom et al. get acquitted by the power of jury nullification. Copyright infringing material on the site should not be their fault, esp. if they are addressing complaints. It's not possible to get every CI file removed immediately. If I were on the jury, I'd vote all defendants INNOCENT- if the rest of the jury had any guilty votes, then we'd be hung. "One To Hang" is a sweet system. Could the DOJ's action partially be a retaliation against the SOPA backlash? Way to kick over another hornets' nest.
Maybe future FS sites and those still standing should let people password-protect their links (not just the files) if desired- and FFS not put servers in the USA.
If the allegations against them are true, Megaupload's operators are far from innocent. They actively encouraged many users to upload pirated stuff, deliberately manipulated the 'top 100 downloads' list to hide infringement, payed only lip service to rightsholders who asked for their content to be taken down, and snitched to the government on their competitors.
They aren't innocent victims. They lived like kings off of other people's work and now they're getting their comeuppance.
I don't agree with imprisoning them or extraditing them from other sovereign nations, but civil litigation and forfeiture of their shit is more than called for if they did what they're accused of.
yeah they did some horrible shit, it's just kind of convenient that it (the bust) happens today of all days