Stop Online Piracy Act

[Korian]

http://www.dailytech.com/Congress+Pl...ticle23625.htm

[cka]

in the latest sopa news, comcast has no idea what the fuck they're doing

[Fe 26]

I'm not surprised that the suits at Comcast have no idea how their core products work.

[gameoverDude]

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.

[Fe 26]

Those countries don't care what we do. They all think we're inferior or assholes already.

[jyoung]

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.

[cka]

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)

[kedawa]

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.

[icarusfall]

I'll be honestly shocked if the year doesn't conclude with some kind of a civil uprising in america

The thought of this makes me hard.

[Frogacuda]

Anyone that thinks that pirates won't adapt and circumvent whatever laws and technical measures these bills contain is shockingly naive.

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.

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.