There's a good deal of truth in that.Mr.Pandah said:
Take on the internet, you essentially are taking on the biggest assholes the world has ever known.
Acknowledging Blackout, Politicians Ditch SOPA
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Take on the internet, you essentially are taking on the biggest assholes the world has ever known.
You trollin? It's a sci-fi series directed(?) by Joss Whedon. And it was awesome, but it got cancelled D:Tomwa said:
Such a shame :/
You know, this is the first event of common news that I actually clap with a big grin on my face, in a -very- long time. I'm a 'go with the flow' kind of girl, but I really, REALLY don't want the government to control what we see. Fairly sure they do enough of that already.Zen Toombs said:
Damn... when porno gets political you know that shit just got real.
Hooray for them! Now we just need a plan to get Wall Street to give us all our money back.
Hooray for them! Now we just need a plan to get Wall Street to give us all our money back.
I'd call it a Freudian slip, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't about sex.gyroscopeboy said:Haha subconscience thing
Goddamn HTC autocorrect!
Anyway, awesome one way or another.
Every single person who was for this should never be re-elected.
The ones that flip flopped after public opinion snapped at them are even worse.
They were either malicious people only in it for the money OR they are ignorant of bills they are willing to let pass.
Either is extremely dangerous. SOPA should be a simple list project for who should never be a political figure in the US ever again.
The ones that flip flopped after public opinion snapped at them are even worse.
They were either malicious people only in it for the money OR they are ignorant of bills they are willing to let pass.
Either is extremely dangerous. SOPA should be a simple list project for who should never be a political figure in the US ever again.
Well the title is misleading. couple politicians said no to sopa but sopa is far from over yet. Either way, this worked better than i expected, so its a win.
As for firefly, there actually was a small firefly project which all profit went into donation. This is the information i was given:
As for firefly, there actually was a small firefly project which all profit went into donation. This is the information i was given:
It's still not over. Even if SOPA and PIPA don't pass, America will still be able to do what they did to Mediaupload because the corrupt officials are backed by big corporations. Welcome to corporate America, where we want you to buy shit you don't need, think about stuff we want you to think and shut the fuck up or we'll throw you in prison and throw the key.
And don't forget ACTA which is 10x worse than SOPA.
And don't forget ACTA which is 10x worse than SOPA.
Thank you for not reading the links I provided.The Cool Kid said:
You know how they used pretty much exactly that line to argue for DMCA and Pro-IP, and how those bills totally stopped all piracy ever?
Yeah.
The point was to illustrate that a) file sharing is an effective way to get publicity and b) the actual losses from piracy are lower than those that are reported(although probably still substantial, indeed). People that are not major media groups are using this to their advantage, but the media groups find that lobbying to break the internet is easier than revising their business models. Because hey, if it worked the 50 years before the internet, when there was no actual competition, it should still work now and technological innovation can't be allowed to get in our way.
Also, I managed to find a very good explanation as to why the wording in both SOPA/PIPA is bullshit [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html](and yes, it's citing the bills). Please, do me, yourself and the entire fucking world a favor, and read this entire thing before you proceed to cry about how the evil corporates at google and wikipedia and independent artists/game studios/etc are screwing us over.
And as a bonus: More reasons why I don't want to give the media groups powers to shut more stuff down [https://www.eff.org/takedowns].
Possibly. If you're the creator of OCs or the poster of fanfics, you might find yourself in hot water even if you start/end your fics or comment your own works with the usual "I didn't make this for profit, please don't sue me" spiel.punipunipyo said:
It's quite possible that some moron megacorp executive would look at DeviantART and see some sort of infringement Mecca. I'm not saying it'll happen - in fact, the chances are pretty slim - but it's a definitive possibility.
Well first of all, I've smacked you around quite a bit in the other thread ( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.338364-U-S-Congress-Shelves-SOPA?page=9 ) over this... so I don't know what you are hoping to prove.The Cool Kid said:I hate to break this to you, but if it's not in the Bill, it's bullshit.Naeras said:Thank you for not reading the links I provided.The Cool Kid said:
You know how they used pretty much exactly that line to argue for DMCA and Pro-IP, and how those bills totally stopped all piracy ever?
Yeah.
The point was to illustrate that a) file sharing is an effective way to get publicity and b) the actual losses from piracy are lower than those that are reported(although probably still substantial, indeed). People that are not major media groups are using this to their advantage, but the media groups find that lobbying to break the internet is easier than revising their business models. Because hey, if it worked the 50 years before the internet, when there was no actual competition, it should still work now and technological innovation can't be allowed to get in our way.
Also, I managed to find a very good explanation as to why the wording in both SOPA/PIPA is bullshit [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html](and yes, it's citing the bills). Please, do me, yourself and the entire fucking world a favor, and read this entire thing before you proceed to cry about how the evil corporates at google and wikipedia and independent artists/game studios/etc are screwing us over.
And as a bonus: More reasons why I don't want to give the media groups powers to shut more stuff down [https://www.eff.org/takedowns].
Making vague comparisons between SOPA and other bills is irrelevant as SOPA is a bill on it's own, which is vastly different to any other.
File sharing is also a brilliant way to get something for free. Which people do resulting in the entertainment industry losing billions. The loss may be lower, but it is still a loss.
"break the internet"? It won't break the internet. That is an absurd phrase with no backing.
That link is interesting and highlights the real rage-induging fact about SOPA:
"We would also need to implement a system to automatically censor the domain from any future posts or comments. This places a measurable burden upon the site's technical infrastructure. "
In other words, sites don't want to have to spend money to make sure their sites don't promote piracy in any way. The fact that this wouldn't be too hard goes to show how lazy sites are. This also makes the point about it hurting start ups as being utter crap.
Could it be abused? Yes, but so can almost every law in the US and people are still getting on just fine. Want evidence? Just look at Haliburton.
Also -- on top of all the other things pending from the other thread, such as there not being any proof of harm from piracy and all the technical reasons why it's bad -- it is impossible to make sure a site doesn't promote piracy in any way.
Want to know why?
Because if it was so easy to block bad content... why do we still have problems with spam and malware?
