SOPA and PIPA DOMINATED

[Reincarnate]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/sopa-bill-sent-back-to-the-drawing-board-in-wake-of-internet-protests.html

Get fuxed

[supermousie]

Re: SOPA and PIPA DOMINATED

God, from the title I thought SOPA and PIPA ass-raped everybody and was passed.
/heart attack averted.

edit: Welp, as predicted, it's being redrafted. Redrafted so the Internet can tell them to GTFO again.

[Sky Kitten]

Re: SOPA and PIPA DOMINATED

We did it!

[Reincarnate]

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See what happens when you get enough people united together, harassing the hell out of their representatives?

Stuff like this needs to happen more often.

[Zageron]

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sopa and pipa, yeah okay.
The world governments are giving us the middle finger anyways. They're going to shut down every heavy pirate site now.

[Reincarnate]

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sopa and pipa, yeah okay.
The world governments are giving us the middle finger anyways. They're going to shut down every heavy pirate site now.

We'll, they'll try, at least. Huge networks have always fallen in the past and ten more spring right back up. It's an uphill battle, since you can't really stop piracy without putting serious limits on personal liberties. Piracy will *always* be available in some form.

But the best solution to combat piracy, really, is to allow for low-cost distribution channels that offer superior networks and markets to that of pirate channels (just look at iTunes, Steam, and Netflix). You can also focus on ways to choke off the financing/profit motives of rogue pirate sites.

[A2P]

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not really dominated. More like just FCd because they're postponed not dismissed

[supermousie]

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sopa and pipa, yeah okay.
The world governments are giving us the middle finger anyways. They're going to shut down every heavy pirate site now.

Here's a good example that's relevant: How many times has ThePirateBay been indicted? They have "Pirate" in their NAME, chrissakes. They give about -9001 ****s about U.S law, and I don't see them sinking (see what I did there?) anywhere in the near future because a new bill has been passed or because somebody got butthurt.

@Rubix: An entire Internet community unifying against something they really, truly don't like. It's almost poetic.

[AlexDest]

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Not really surprising, this just fixes a potential problem in the world (though they'll still try eventually).

Now to go back into making peace with the world and ending all wars...

[Reincarnate]

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not really dominated. More like just FCd because they're postponed not dismissed

I disagree. I think this is a great example of the notion that the American people have more power than they give themselves credit for.

Not really surprising, this just fixes a potential problem in the world (though they'll still try eventually).

As long as SOPA/PIPA continue to try to sneak in censorship BS, it'll continue to be met with violent opposition until it becomes reasonable.

[Bluearrowll]

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and I was reading this today

http://maddox.xmission.com/

[Reincarnate]

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and I was reading this today

http://maddox.xmission.com/

+1

[iironiic]

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and I was reading this today

http://maddox.xmission.com/

Just read it. Interesting to say the least...

[Anaru]

Re: SOPA and PIPA DOMINATED

and I was reading this today

http://maddox.xmission.com/

[justin_ator]

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Good read on the second article.