Escapist Shutdown!?

[Gabanuka]

Yeh, given the kinda shit we have down in the Basement this place is going doooooooooooooooooown.

 

[FatalFox]

It could be shut down because of the the gameplay footage they show in reveiws acutally.
and the corporate logos Yahtzee uses. (actually this sounds a little silly)
and the cut up trailers moviebob shows in his reviews.

not really, unless SOPA and PIPA were to pass, Megaupload was doing illegal business, letting people distribute copies of copyrighted content to the masses, while the escapist doesn't do more than any other videogame/comic/movie website on the internet.
now if SOPA/PIPA were to pass I think we could start worrying about sites like the escapist, because I think these bills would go haywire and shut down a lot of jobs, gone mad with power.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I understand his point and I will not debate it because his point, sadly, does not matter here.

Meanie

I'm just quite interested how it was taken down just after SOPA was shelved (some might say in a hissy fit), the false numbers given to piracy [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-regulation-and-the-economics-of-piracy.ars] or this little beauty that was announced: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111221airvinyl

It would have started working around the end of January...What a shame that it was deleted on January 20th.

But no. Pirates. Piracy, Piracy, Pirates. Killing the Internet they are with their Piratey ways.

Allegedly.

And therein lies the rub: I can't actually demonstrate this, seeing as how Megaupload was taken down.

Well, I guess that's lucky then. Them pesky pirates probably did it themselves with their piratey ways. It also means that your accusation of demonstrably fails.

Certainly nothing to do with the Music Industry paying Politicians. Because Dodd assures us that never happens.

Allegedly.

Good thing those pesky pirates at Megaupload won't be giving more rights and money to artists the fucking cheek of those pricks.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yes we routinely host copyrighted material here. You know, we're super librial here and hate the man. America is the man. We hate America. All you need to do is look at all the posts about ninjas, pirates and who would win in a fight. Yes pirates. That's what we are all about. Pirates


Fuck no! This site does not condone illegal activity. It's not going to get shut down because it simply is doing nothing wrong.

Is that Avatar your own work? If you answered no then if someone decides to make an example of this site in the very broad writing of this type of stuff with the sheer volume of copyrighted images they could in theory take it down.

 

[xvbones]

Not as such, seeing as how the site was taken down due to the vast quantities of pirated material that you yourself admitted moved through Megaupload.

I'll think you'll find I didn't.

My mistake, I was looking at the thing with the eye and not the thing with the reese's puffs.

By the way, have you copyrighted the word Piracy? Because I'd hate to think you were pirating a word and repeating an indemonstrable, unsubstantiated claim just to get yourself noticed.

But you, of course, have ample proof of the claims you are making and not just bolding certain words in an attempt to sound Edg oops, can't break that copyright, angry?

Because otherwise all you're doing is spamming and trolling, and the Escapist doesn't look too kindly on that. It'd be like talking about ...piracy.

Allegedly.

...get myself noti-....

Fuck this.

Right here is when I stopped trying to talk to you, lost all respect for you, rolled my eyes, flipped you the bird, and walked away.

Spoiler: This bird.

 

[Yopaz]

Seriously doubt they will touch the Escapist. What a shit-storm it would generate..

Yeah. No-one said a thing when Megaupload, MediaFire, videobb or any of the other recently closed sites were closed. They will probably take our feelings into consideration and leave us alone so they wont have to get rude emails and discussions about how they suck in various forums all over the internet.

Neither videobb nor mediafire have been shut down, and he didn't say there wasn't a shitstorm when megaupload went down either, what's your problem?

Good to hear that Mediafire didn't get shut down, I just saw someone say it was a few days ago and I haven't had the time to check myself. However what he said in his post was that The Escapist wouldn't shut down because that would cause a shitstorm, now that would indicate that he believed they would be afraid to stir up a shitstorm while that is clearly not the case. Do I need to dumb down my posts more or was this straight forward enough for you?

 

[SextusMaximus]

Seriously doubt they will touch the Escapist. What a shit-storm it would generate..

Yeah. No-one said a thing when Megaupload, MediaFire, videobb or any of the other recently closed sites were closed. They will probably take our feelings into consideration and leave us alone so they wont have to get rude emails and discussions about how they suck in various forums all over the internet.

Neither videobb nor mediafire have been shut down, and he didn't say there wasn't a shitstorm when megaupload went down either, what's your problem?

Good to hear that Mediafire didn't get shut down, I just saw someone say it was a few days ago and I haven't had the time to check myself. However what he said in his post was that The Escapist wouldn't shut down because that would cause a shitstorm, now that would indicate that he believed they would be afraid to stir up a shitstorm while that is clearly not the case. Do I need to dumb down my posts more or was this straight forward enough for you?

Re-reading what he said, I appreciate you're correct, however you could've done it while being at least fairly pleasant to him, rather than mocking him.

 

[viranimus]

Fuck no! This site does not condone illegal activity. It's not going to get shut down because it simply is doing nothing wrong.

Im not saying your wrong, because your not. The escapist is doing nothing wrong. Nothing is going to happen here, However. this site DOES condone copywrite infringement every day. You show me how many people have pony, or Anime, or other avatar images from copy written sources , and I will show you an equal number of people who do not have their respective publishers consent to redistribute that image. Yet these are painfully clear copywrite violations but the people comitting them are never reprimanded for it and all it does is encourages other people to swipe other copy written property they like and personally identify with. I am not saying it is right or wrong, but it is what it is. Its not wrong for the escapist to do it, but it is still copywrite infringement none the less.

Honestly again its not likely to happen. I mean the escapist is like what? top 1000 Alexa rating? thats really not a big target. Though in this jackbooted era I guess anything is hypothetically possible.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Wow this thread derailed quickly.

Spoiler: Also:

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Yopaz]

Seriously doubt they will touch the Escapist. What a shit-storm it would generate..

Yeah. No-one said a thing when Megaupload, MediaFire, videobb or any of the other recently closed sites were closed. They will probably take our feelings into consideration and leave us alone so they wont have to get rude emails and discussions about how they suck in various forums all over the internet.

Neither videobb nor mediafire have been shut down, and he didn't say there wasn't a shitstorm when megaupload went down either, what's your problem?

Good to hear that Mediafire didn't get shut down, I just saw someone say it was a few days ago and I haven't had the time to check myself. However what he said in his post was that The Escapist wouldn't shut down because that would cause a shitstorm, now that would indicate that he believed they would be afraid to stir up a shitstorm while that is clearly not the case. Do I need to dumb down my posts more or was this straight forward enough for you?

Re-reading what he said, I appreciate you're correct, however you could've done it while being at least fairly pleasant to him, rather than mocking him.

Yeah, you're right there. I guess the sarcasm wasn't necessary, nor was the rude response when he didn't catch my sarcasm. I guess I do owe him an apology for that. Thanks for making me see that I took this too far. Also because of my history with sarcasm in this thread let me stress that this is sincere.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Seriously doubt they will touch the Escapist. What a shit-storm it would generate..

Yeah. No-one said a thing when Megaupload, MediaFire, videobb or any of the other recently closed sites were closed. They will probably take our feelings into consideration and leave us alone so they wont have to get rude emails and discussions about how they suck in various forums all over the internet.

Neither videobb nor mediafire have been shut down, and he didn't say there wasn't a shitstorm when megaupload went down either, what's your problem?

Good to hear that Mediafire didn't get shut down, I just saw someone say it was a few days ago and I haven't had the time to check myself. However what he said in his post was that The Escapist wouldn't shut down because that would cause a shitstorm, now that would indicate that he believed they would be afraid to stir up a shitstorm while that is clearly not the case. Do I need to dumb down my posts more or was this straight forward enough for you?

Re-reading what he said, I appreciate you're correct, however you could've done it while being at least fairly pleasant to him, rather than mocking him.

Yeah, you're right there. I guess the sarcasm wasn't necessary, nor was the rude response when he didn't catch my sarcasm. I guess I do owe him an apology for that. Thanks for making me see that I took this too far. Also because of my history with sarcasm in this thread let me stress that this is sincere.

S'alright, sorry for being a bit aggressive, I'm a pretty big sarcasm offender anyway!

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Why the hell would they shut down this website? Contributers are so hardcore anti-piracy here that its a surprise the site didnt come out in support of SOPA.

except the whole "fact that it could kill this site due to reviews showing immagry from copyrighted material, and all the other stuff that would mean some ungrateful, stupid, son of a *****, corporate lackey could get offended that the escapist didn't rate their product 5/5 and take the site down on unrelated charges and ruin a great thing for everyone" thing, y'know cuz that's totally unimportant...

Let me guess, you got your information from threads on these forums and JeepersMedia, eh?

SOPA is bad enough as it is. Theres no need to lie to make it worse. SOPA passing would not mean random companies could take down random websites whenever they wanted without justifying the act first.

haha, actually no, but unless they rewrote the bill since i last read into it, there's enough loose terminology to allow for exploitation in such a way as to cause it's use against sites like this to be pretty well guaranteed, I dunno if you've read it at all, but it's scary, and acts as a big ol loophole in legality allowing for willy nilly prosecution, and service denial, in a shoot first ask questions later style allowed by the bill's wording.

 

[Yureina]

I very seriously doubt it. This site is not a host of pirated or illegal content. While it may be true that some copyrighted stuff shows up from time to time, it's not like The Escapist has downloadable MP3's or games or whatever.

I am not worried about the FBI coming here to cause trouble.

 

[Robert Ewing]

If SOPA or PIPA got passed this site would definitely be pulled. Just for displaying images on IP's. But not now, the escapist is safe.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Let me put it this way. Look on the right hand side of the forums. You see those pictures, the ones that people are more likely to be recognized by than their screen names? Yeah, most of those are copyrighted and being used without permission, which, had SOPA passed, would have been grounds to take the site down. That's why people were so angry about it: it wasn't a copyright bill. It was a censorship bill masquerading as a copyright bill, one that could be used to shut down almost literally any website on the net.