Jimquisition: SOPA Approved
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What will really get amusing is when SOPA passes and all the corporations start suing and blacking out each others websites and such because they showed a competitors product on a news site or something of that nature or used a trademarked name to make a comparison. They think it's all about stopping piracy, but you know they're just gnashing their teeth to start backstabbing the shit out of each other the instant SOPA drops.
The big issue is not only the whole other countries may follow suit thing but that Visa and Amex are both American so a site violating SOPA could not take payment that way. Mastercard have come out in support SOPA so I'm guessing they wouldn't process such payments either, this cripples a website's ability to conduct any sort of economic activity. Also it's a fair bet most advertising companies are Us based or have US based parent companies so there would be very limited ad revenue possibilities for SOPA violating websites. When you look at it this way SOPA is more of an economic sanction than a server ban.ph0b0s123 said:
Well, there's this. [http://www.extremetech.com/computing/109533-how-sopa-could-actually-break-the-internet] That's certainly seems "this will kill the whole internet" worthy.ph0b0s123 said:
Clever. If they argue against it you file against their site or television show and have it removed under SOPA.Tanis said:We should just take everyone who votes for SOPA and make them unelectable by claiming they're gay atheists who support Justin Biender...
This...this is evil.
Your point? No politician has ever cared about the first amendment or the Constitution as a whole since the founding fathers were in office, and it hasn't kept laws like SOPA from being completely powerless and unenforcable. Besides, SOPA isn't going to make any more progress in stopping things like Piracy from happening in the US or any other country any more than any other attempt to do just that they've ever taken.Draxyle said:
My thoughts exactly!erttheking said:
I was like "oh shit oh shit oh shit did this thing really fucking happen?"
I wouldn't go so far as to say that no politician has cared - there are probably a small collection of honorable individuals in office that are surrounded by the many thieves, braggarts, cowards, ect.immortalfrieza said:
I wonder where they will stop? Will they start policing those that give a mix cd to a significant other? That person certainly didn't pay for those songs.
The title made me piss myself. Seriously, man, what the hell?
This was highly depressing, until the end 'cuz that was kind of funny.
This was highly depressing, until the end 'cuz that was kind of funny.
I am a network engineer so am aware of all of this. Again this is US focused on the US controlled domains. Domains like, my local .co.uk or other country DNS will not be that affected apart from getting rubbish .com DNS info.Cain_Zeros said:
Other countries DNS providers will mitigate around this. It will screw the US DNS service, but the US DNS service is not the 'whole of the internet', the point I keep trying to make. The article even agrees.
From the article you quoted:
"Taken to extremes, the reckless pursuit of secure content could fracture the dubious alliance that?s allowed the US to maintain control over the internet and lead to the creation of a second international network. "
This is the point I have been trying to make here all along. The world will have a two tier internet. An unfiltered one used by most countries, and a filtered one that countries such as China, N Korea and the US put in place. If Jim moves to the UK, he can do his show as normal, but with no US watchers and yes less money. A call of 'don't do this as it will remove a market for our content' is different to this 'will kill the whole internet' and just comes off as Americans forgetting they are not the only country in the world.
Initially there will be a big impact on the internet, but it will adapt around the US measures and content will just become less focused for the US market. If anything this may remove power from the US content lobby, as they will be cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
At the end of the day if this monstrosity passes it is curtains for the US part of the internet and should be avoided at all costs. If there was something I as a foreigner, could be doing to put pressure on the US gov not to do this, I would but since they hardly even listen to even US citizens, I have no chance. But it will not 'kill the whole of the internet', that's the only part of this whole argument I disagree with.
Over react much, talk about fear mongering. lol. This law wont come into effect and especially not in the evil form they say it will. Mostly because it does more harm than good especially to music and film companies that want to spread promotions for bands and films. So dont worry about it, you will have a heart attack and die all for nothing.
Love at the 6.24 point he plays the music from the game Deadly Premonition.
Love at the 6.24 point he plays the music from the game Deadly Premonition.
SOPA will kill Jim?
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You'll get what i was talking about if you watched the whole video ;P
In all seriousness, what would be the profit loss if SOPA goes through for everything?
Great episode, even if the joke did go on a bit too long...
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You'll get what i was talking about if you watched the whole video ;P
In all seriousness, what would be the profit loss if SOPA goes through for everything?
Great episode, even if the joke did go on a bit too long...
I wouldn't say things like that, everybody that's hating on SOPA is just being extreme in an attempt to provoke a reaction from Congress. Even in the extremely unlikely event that SOPA actually passes, they're not going to use it anywhere near as abusively as people think it's going to, it wouldn't last a month if they did.Disasterpiece Press said:
SOPA is the brain child of numerous corporations who are fighting what they see as the biggest enemy to their obscene profits, the internet.
The internet is the last truly free frontier that isn't the vacuum of Space, where people come to share and to scrutinize and to speculate and to question. Such a liberal Utopia cannot be tolerated by the Elitist snobs that are responsible for this heinous bill. The 1% as they have come to be known.
As an Australian, I am disgusted that my life and my experience on the internet can be influenced or degraded by a bill that is not even of my own countries making. It is an absolute disgrace and is the thin edge of the wedge of a much more frightening reality.
The internet is the last truly free frontier that isn't the vacuum of Space, where people come to share and to scrutinize and to speculate and to question. Such a liberal Utopia cannot be tolerated by the Elitist snobs that are responsible for this heinous bill. The 1% as they have come to be known.
As an Australian, I am disgusted that my life and my experience on the internet can be influenced or degraded by a bill that is not even of my own countries making. It is an absolute disgrace and is the thin edge of the wedge of a much more frightening reality.
Yes, Congress can override the veto by 2/3 vote. I think it's 2/3rds anyway.Kopikatsu said:
You're forgetting though that there is still the Supreme Court who could rule the entire bill unconstitutional and completely destroy it forever.
Judicial branch has just as much power as the Legislative and Executive.