Irish SOPA law has passed today

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Mr Somewhere

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There was never any doubt it would pass. The Dail is populated by inept yes men who are there only to save their own skin. They could care less about the people; as long as they've cash flowing into their pockets it suits them fine. Monkey's in suits, every damn one of them.
 

Mr Somewhere

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mik1 said:
In this case however it seems that Irelands population was willing to not be so ignorant in such blatant example of a politician holding a corporations interest over that of the peoples. I hope that whoever is responsible for this is not re-elected and that other politicians see this and know there is a line that can be crossed. If you willing to do something that is filled with enough bullshit the idiotic masses will see through it.
That's simply not true. People did challenge this. It's the other way around. The politicians in this country simply refuse to listen to the public, they refuse to listen to reason for that matter. They've their fingers in their ears. This country is in a desperate economic crisis, and yet they still find time to pull this kind of fucking shit.
 

White-Death

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Can I ask when it all takes effect? I'm both scared & disappointed of the choices made by our horrific government.
 

SeeIn2D

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HerrBobo said:
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HerrBobo said:
If I was the kind of guy that downloads illegal torrents, what would this mean for me?
This would mean that basically all websites that stream TV shows/movies would be blocked by the government barring those that are in writing legal to be streaming these things. It would also mean that all torrent websites like demonoid.me and thepiratebay.org would be blocked by the government. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is the most direct effect of the SOPA.
Thanks for the info.

One more question. If I had already been downloading illegal torrents, is there any way for the Irish Government to track me? Assuming I do live in Ireland that is. My, eh, ....friend wants to know...

Cheers.
This is again just my understanding so I may be wrong, but I don't believe this act is about taking legal action against people, its about blocking the torrenting activity altogether. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
 

Colour Scientist

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DragonLord Seth said:
Didn't a former Irish president post on Twitter or something that SHE was appalled at what SOPA was trying to do? I remember reading it on Memebase... so the legitimacy of it is in question...
Mary McAleese and I don't think that was legitimate. There were a load of spelling mistakes, she's a very well educated woman, and Tweets are only 140 characters, it seems too long, not that I've counted.


http://memebase.com/2012/01/20/internet-memes-cant-stop-the-irish/

If this law works out okay, will the rest of the world hate us?
 

Dogstile

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Colour-Scientist said:
dogstile said:
F said:
Well damn, now this has passed other countries will follow I think.
Follow Ireland? Why would anyone do that, the country is a mess.
Shh... Some people still think we're cool.
Oh I know. My dad was Irish and because of that I can speak in the really stereotypical film accent they always give Irish people. Every time I do it people want to talk to me. It's quite worrying.
 

Wintermoot

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HerrBobo said:
If I was the kind of guy that downloads illegal torrents, what would this mean for me?
probably allot jail time even if you just uploaded a picture of let,s say Gordon Freeman with a mustache on your FB page.
I think it,s sad a country that,s a member of the European Union pulled a stunt like this.
I really hope the main land government doesn't pull shit like this.
 

Wintermoot

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Cloudwolf616 said:
The Irish version of SOPA has just passed today and will be in effect soon ignoring a signed petition of 80,000 voters which is quite a big number of people over here.
can you give me a link?
 

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People! Hear me!

You may not wish to believe this, but it is in fact GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Please, allow me to explain.

Ireland is a rather small internet market compared to other industrialized nations. This will be a perfect experiment to show what the law will do. It will likely fail miserably, and eventually in such a small country the outcry will be too much and it will be repealed. The damage will be undone, and we'll have a shining example of why we SHOULD NEVER put forward such a law.

Had this happened in America, politicians would have tried to come up with other issues to distract us from trying to get it repealed and it may have come to be a fact of life.

So this does suck for Ireland, but for the whole world it could be a bit of a boon.
 

Wintermoot

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honestdiscussioner said:
People! Hear me!

You may not wish to believe this, but it is in fact GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Please, allow me to explain.

Ireland is a rather small internet market compared to other industrialized nations. This will be a perfect experiment to show what the law will do. It will likely fail miserably, and eventually in such a small country the outcry will be too much and it will be repealed. The damage will be undone, and we'll have a shining example of why we SHOULD NEVER put forward such a law.

Had this happened in America, politicians would have tried to come up with other issues to distract us from trying to get it repealed and it may have come to be a fact of life.

So this does suck for Ireland, but for the whole world it could be a bit of a boon.
what I,m afraid of is that before it fails politicians say "hey look we can easily violate human rights like the Irish!"
 

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trollpwner said:
Bleh. I think this'll collapse if they try and make any big moves. Shut down FB or youtube and everyone who was kept in the dark about this will suddenly get very very annoyed.
This is the point that youtube and FB go dark voluntarily due to the fact they would have to change their policies to accommodate Ireland. This would piss of a good chunk of the remaining 4 million or so Irish citizens not already signing petitions.
 

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lRookiel said:
The Irish should rise up and fight the tyranny that has plagued their fair country...
Just wait till scotland gets hit. Cyber-Wallace to the rescue!
 

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FelixG said:
Would someone explain to me why someone hasnt voted this areshole out of office from a rooftop?
mainly because Irish politics are a joke. All the parties have pretty much the same opinion on everything. Except for Sinn Fein who do their own stupid thing. One of their campaign slogans was something along the lines of "Lets not pay back Europe" And most people I know voted for a Sinn Fein TD because "He seemed the nicest". He was also the only one who actually lived in his constituency. Anyway the reason he wasn't voted out is because the others would have done the exact same thing