SOPA; How major media corps. are hijacking the net...

[Paulyski 2,227]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3cKvBVa0qA&feature=g-all-f&context=G2ba0862FAAAAAAAAAAA

[HappYBallZ 31]

Yeah its BS... I swear this fucking year is the most anti-customer/citizen law-stamping year EVER!

Oh yeah RIPP, MPAA, DOD, and other alphabet groups and "copy right protectors" all got caught downloading AND uploading/sharring files (many absolutely not related to their business like Microsoft Office uploaded by RIAA IP addresses). Hypocrites... nothing more.

 

GoDaddy got huge backlash this week for being the ONLY web-business that supported it and everyone (including me) moved their domains elsewere. It's funny how they first laught it off and then when 80k domains left they quickly changed their tune!

Edited December 26, 2011 by HappYBallZ

[HappYBallZ 31]

Here you go:

Add house of representatives (that proposed the damn law!) to the list of hypocrites.

 

http://torrentfreak....pirates-111226/

 

YouHaveDownloaded is a treasure trove full of incriminating data on alleged BitTorrent pirates in organizations all across the world.

Unauthorized downloads occur even in the most unexpected of places, from the palace of the French President, via the Church of God, to the RIAA.

Although we don’t plan to go on forever trawling the archives, we felt that there was at least one place that warranted further investigation – the U.S. House of Representatives. Since it’s the birthplace of the pending SOPA bill, we wondered how many of the employees there have engaged in unauthorized copying.

The answer is yet again unambiguous – they pirate a lot.

In total we found more than 800 IP-addresses assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives from where content has been shared on BitTorrent. After a closer inspection it quickly became clear the House isn’t just using it for legitimate downloads either, quite the opposite....

 

Watch-out for PIPA -same law another name

 

Also good read:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/09051617180/law-firms-removing-their-name-sopa-supporters-list-sopa-support-crumbling.shtml

 

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/GoDaddy-Takes-Huge-PR-Hit-For-SOPA-Support-117581

Edited December 27, 2011 by HappYBallZ

[Dad2142Dad 6,559]

Just follow the money trail

[nlacy 692]

Now that Corporations are "people" and protected by the Constitution just like indivual citizens, this shit is going to get worse and worse.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2010/01/money_isnt_speech_and_corporations_arent_people.html

[Dad2142Dad 6,559]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html

[roachtron 49]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality this has also been in talks for a long time. It allows internet providers to control what your able to access. It seems like the things in the sopa bill are already done to a certain extent. I can name a few of my favorite sites that have been shut down.

[tatonic 159]

http://www.tomshardw...nate,14393.html

 

This is a must read for our members. Could be the end of sites like this one.

[Reverendfranz 160]

http://en.wikipedia....work_neutrality this has also been in talks for a long time. It allows internet providers to control what your able to access. It seems like the things in the sopa bill are already done to a certain extent. I can name a few of my favorite sites that have been shut down.

 

This is true, censorship is already in place. SOPA is about extending those censorship abilities, internationally, through mandatory measures, as is done in China. Give them an inch, they want a mile.

Edited January 8, 2012 by ReverendFranz

[Dad2142Dad 6,559]

DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA, Protect IP

 

 

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/SOPA-Protect-IP-Lamar-Smith-DNS-Blocking-Piracy,news-13899.html

 

Watch them, putting lipstick on the pig