Stop Online Piracy Act

[Josh]

Who would I like to vote for as President in 2012?

[Thief Silver]

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/06/da...n-open-treaty/

Hey look an international version somewhat resembling SOPA and PIPA

Here's the treaty.

http://keepthewebopen.com/acta

We are really getting fucked by every govt.

[gameoverDude]

Police court order Dotwrong, New Zealand Herald

The Megaupload seizure order has been ruled null & void. Justice Judith Potter has said that the court order against Kim Dotcom should never have been granted. Police Commissioner Peter Marshall has even admitted to a screwup.

But... "However, the Crown submitted that new orders granted meant the previous errors didn't matter as the property was still restrained." Bullshit. They should matter.

Dotcom may not necessarily regain his property, but at least his chance is more than zero.
Anyway he has posted bail. Hopefully he'll win.

BTW, Hollywood has Hotfile in their crosshairs now. The plaintiffs here are Disney, 20th Century Fox (fuck you again, Rupert Murdoch), Universal, Columbia, and Warner Brothers.
Kim Dotcom Posts Bail (Ubergizmo)

It is Hollywood who needs us. We sure as fuck don't need them. Enough remakes, enough sequels (the 3rd part of a series should be the last IMO), and ENOUGH treating your customers as pirates. Hopefully Kim Dotcom will go free.

[James]

(the 3rd part of a series should be the last IMO)

That's as true in gaming as movies. Although an exemption is granted in the case of book series adaptations like Harry Potter.

James

[Razor Ramon]

Aren't ISPs going to willingly cut services if you're found to be using torrents around July?

[James]

I talked to someone (who works at *cable company* in a Lead position) about this the other day, actually. At the moment the content providers police sites like Piratebay and such. The only difference in July vs today is that the ISPs start doing it. There's not going to be a giant increase (or any increase at all, in theory) in the number of people shut down then vs today. Also, the usual process of multiple warnings ("Knock it off", "No really, we mean it!", and "Told you so.") will still be in effect.

Short version- don't be any more of a dumbass in July than today and you'll be fine.

Also, a prediction- in 2-3 years the RIAA will be grumbling that having the ISPs be responsible for cutting off internet users is like having the guy at the doughnut counter responsible for watching your weight.

James

[kedawa]

Technology will always be ten steps ahead of these fuckwits anyway.
The more they try to force their will on us, the sooner we end up in an encryption arms race they can't possibly win.

[Josh]

Technology will always be ten steps ahead of these fuckwits anyway.

http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox

[gameoverDude]

Aren't ISPs going to willingly cut services if you're found to be using torrents around July?

Instead of shutting you down, they may throttle your bandwidth. It starts on July 12.

First you’ll get a warning informing you that piracy is illegal and a breach of your agreement with your ISP, in case you weren’t already aware.
If you get caught again, you’ll receive another warning, this time requiring that you acknowledge receipt and sign a “pledge” to stop pirating.
If you go back on your pledge, you can expect a Mitigation Measure Copyright Alert which informs you that a Mitigation Measure has been applied to your account. This generally means throttling of upload or download speed by varying degrees, or the reduction of your Internet connection on the whole to be downgraded to the lowest quality above dial-up. They can also alter your landing page to “remind you” not to pirate. This also requires customer acknowledgment.

Rights holders will police torrents and then narc on you. Then your ISP goes through the process above.
Surely there will be a lot of flak coming the ISPs' way from those wrongfully accused.

A big PKB at the RIAA. They aren't that innocent.

By 2030, the RIAA and MPAA will probably have their own jackbooted, dark visored, voice-disguised, laser-rifle toting goon squads ready to go to houses of suspects. Land of the free... Sure about that?

[Frogacuda]

The only difference in July vs today is that the ISPs start doing it.

But does this mean ISPs are going to sit on a torrent and seed even though they can see your traffic? It doesn't seem like they'd leave massive holes like content companies do when they can just see your traffic. I want more information about this.

I generally just use peerblock to confound any media company IPs, and I never have any problems. That's not going to work for ISPs.

Rights holders will police torrents and then narc on you. Then your ISP goes through the process above.

Isn't that what they do now? I've had my bandwidth throttled for torrenting before, and it wasn't even over copyright shit, they were just like "You're using a suspicious amount of upload, so we're assuming you're torrenting or running a server and we're throttling you."