Stop Online Piracy Act

In my opinion Americans can go marry their dogs for all I care, just leave us the hell alone, don't expect to segregate, control and then police us as well. That won't fly, I will START to pirate if they start doing this just because im "harregat".
 
rpm said:
Piracy websites must watch out

US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites accused of piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods.
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all of which is entirely irrelevant to most foreign sites, only an idiot would be hosting a piracy site of any kind in the US today anyway, and only an idiot US lawmaker actually believes US law reaches beyond its own borders (US money / power, yes, US law, no)
 
It sounds like the block is going to be via DNS at the ISP. In other words all you have to do to get around it is run your own dns server. The instructions to do so would be small enough to put in a single posting on a forum and easy enough that a 14 year old girl would be able to do it. This is going to make NO difference what so ever.
 
Elite Override said:
Darknet here we come.
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Yep, time to move everything to the tor network! :D

Piracy will never go away, it will just move elsewhere.

The only way to fight piracy is through competitive price and very wide convenient distribution.
 
reedOsama said:
I don't see why you guys try so hard to justify your pirating, we all know it's wrong and we all do it. I just can't see why you'd try to convince everyone that it's actually the people who are selling the products fault that you pirate.
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I don't bother justifying my actions, I also don't quite get why others do when it comes to piracy, BUT I do find it ironic that after decades of piracy, quite a number of the games I've bought legally were distributed via some abomination like STEAM. Talk about a bitter taste in the mouth, for me (and many others if you google a bit) STEAM is completely broken, at times it takes days to play a game that is already up to date, that I happen to want to play offline, just because STEAM decides it is time for an update and it struggles for days to get a connection to its servers for a paltry 300kb update.

For stuff like that, I don't care if piracy is wrong, the pirate copy is the only one that actually works for me, and I lose no sleep over pirating STEAM stuff, give me a missile launcher and the co-ordinates of all STEAM servers and I won't lose any sleep about blowing them to hell either. I will NEVER buy another STEAM game, justified or not, I will pirate all the ones I want to play.
 
My experience with Steam is exactly the opposite, very little hasstles & their specials are excellent plus I've got freezone so I've bought many games legally through steam that I otherwise probably would have pirated. IMO cost and convenience are the piracy killers, if they make it convenient at a fair price I'd much rather purchase that pirate. If they don't, then well ..

They need to get with the times, example with ebooks: no more printing or distribution costs for them (in fact the end user pays for distribution now) yet they stubbornly refuse to work that into their pricing model. Amazon got it mostly right so I'm getting my Kindle as soon as the Touch becomes availiable. Books not available in my region? Oh look, google search says it actually is.

Elite Override said:
SA will just bend to those laws, our government is without backbone.
Darknet here we come.
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I wonder between pirates and the amount that our new government steals, which one is the larger drain on the economy? I don't think pirates even come close.
 
reedOsama said:
I don't see why you guys try so hard to justify your pirating, we all know it's wrong and we all do it. I just can't see why you'd try to convince everyone that it's actually the people who are selling the products fault that you pirate.
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Sure, it is not the only factor, but it is definitely the MAJOR factor. If it were not for them, I would not pirate anything.

reedOsama said:
What really annoys me is the double standard... it's fine to pirate entertainment but go into the software thread and mention that your Windows is copied and everyone's all over you (my windows isn't cracked by the way:D get it... nevermind:erm:)
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I promote Free Software, because I love free software. Why pay for something or pirate something when there is a completely good free version available. But having said that, I have no problem with someone pirating something like Adobe Photoshop cos (a) it is a massive rip-off to buy and (b) they don't use it very often. If it had to run my business off it though, then I would probably go ahead and buy it as expensive as it is.

I have no problems with people using the greedy middle men as an excuse. That's cos the middle men really are greedy and somebody needs to stick it to them.
 
evilstebunny said:
My experience with Steam is exactly the opposite, very little hasstles
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Yeah, many people would say the same, but a quick google confirms alot of people experience severe issues that have never been addressed just like me. I have no problem with the concept, but the implementation is undeniably shoddy if a significant portion of the user base cannot actually use it properly.
 
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I was looking at a newpaper headline today, Michael Jackson is the second highest top grossing dead artist... My point is, who is stealing? Just a thought on my mind...
 
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