SOPA is dead!

h0ll0w said:
SOPA would NOT have changed much. You guys kick up such a fuss, because you have no idea what authorities are already capable of doing without SOPA and PIPA.
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Exactly. Megavideo anyone?
 
h0ll0w said:
ehm... Stop Online Piracy Act. Nope, Nothing at all remotely to do with piracy.

anycase

SOPA would NOT have changed much. You guys kick up such a fuss, because you have no idea what authorities are already capable of doing without SOPA and PIPA.
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The very same companies that are behind SOPA and PIPA are the companies that have been distributing the tools that people use to pirate for years....

[video=youtube;WJIuYgIvKsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 
Garyvdh said:
The very same companies that are behind SOPA and PIPA are the companies that have been distributing the tools that people use to pirate for years....
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I hope you have a little more to go on than this lunatic's youtube clip :|
 
[video=youtube;dmQN93NqqDM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQN93NqqDM&list=LLDU6AlHwdt_Prtzsn2seXHA&index=1&feature=plpp_video_[/video]

ACTA,

and

The child porn thingy:

Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. It is arguably the biggest threat to civil liberties now under consideration in the United States. The potential victims: everyone who uses the Internet.

The good news? It hasn't gone before the full House yet.

The bad news: it already made it through committee. And history shows that in times of moral panic, overly broad legislation has a way of becoming law. In fact, a particular moment comes to mind.

In the early 20th Century, a different moral panic gripped the United States: a rural nation was rapidly moving to anonymous cities, sexual mores were changing, and Americans became convinced that an epidemic of white female slavery was sweeping the land. Thus a 1910 law that made it illegal to transport any person across state lines for prostitution "or for any other immoral purpose." Suddenly premarital sex and adultery had been criminalized, as scam artists would quickly figure out. "Women would lure male conventioneers across a state line, say from New York to Atlantic City, New Jersey," David Langum* explains, "and then threaten to expose them to the prosecutors for violation" unless paid off. Inveighing against the law, the New York Times noted that, though it was officially called the White Slave Traffic Act (aka The Mann Act), a more apt name would've been "the Encouragement of Blackmail Act."

That name is what brought the anecdote back to me. A better name for the child pornography bill would be The Encouragement of Blackmail by Law Enforcement Act. At issue is how to catch child pornographers. It's too hard now, say the bill's backers, and I can sympathize. It's their solution that appalls me: under language approved 19 to 10 by a House committee, the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you've been assigned.
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Download everything you want this week, something is going down with file hosts, as of now no downloading from Filesonic

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.
If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager."

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/65920166.html

At least News Servers seem safe.
 
schumi said:
Download everything you want this week, something is going down with file hosts, as of now no downloading from Filesonic

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.
If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager."

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/65920166.html

At least News Servers seem safe.
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OMW the Mayans where right after all!!!!!

2012 is the end of the Virtual World :)
 
schumi said:
Download everything you want this week, something is going down with file hosts, as of now no downloading from Filesonic

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.
If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager."

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/65920166.html

At least News Servers seem safe.
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Don't jinx it :(
 
FileSonic disabled their own File Sharing system cos they are a bunch of cowards.

Nothing to see here... move along.
 
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