Stop Online Piracy Act

[Doc Holliday]

So, are ya'll shutting down the site tomorrow or are ya'll going to puss up?

[dave is ok]

If TNL isn't down tomorrow, Nick and cka support nazi-ism

[Doc Holliday]

...or just really hate Opaque.

[Frogacuda]

Oh god dammit.

[gameoverDude]

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.

A big "SUCK IT HARD" to those who sponsored SOPA. Let's hope Obama doesn't waffle after re-election.
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.

[Opaque]

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.

[Josh]

Until people are distracted by something and they get rewritten and disguised as something else.

Wait for it.

[Diff-chan]

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.

[kedawa]

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.

[Diff-chan]

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.