What to do if SOPA hits.

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Lunar Templar

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Zachary Amaranth said:
Kitsuna10060 said:
if it passes? watch the world burn basically.

I'll enjoy hearing how these company's in support of SOPA now start losing money hand over fist cause they killed the best marketing and distribution option they had
Sadly, instead of learning their lesson, they will push for stricter laws. This just proves them right, after all.
lol, that's probably true, but the morons that want this thing only care about the bottom line, NOT the damage they will end up doing to get it, >.> ya know, kind makes them as bad as terrorists in a way
 

WanderingFool

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Fayathon said:
And this is what tor [https://www.torproject.org/] is for.

If SOPA passes I'm going to set myself to using tor exclusively, the government can go fuck itself if it thinks it can stop me from going where I damned well please online.
Well, I might download regardless of SOPA passing or not.
 

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binnsyboy said:
dave1004 said:
I'm Canadian, so at least I'll have Canadian websites. I'll just migrate to the Deep Web, I already participate in a pretty good forums there. Sure, it's small, but if SOPA does pass, a lot of idiotic kids are going to be flooding the Deep Web, and that will ruin the whole thing.

Works for me, anyways.
What's the deep web?

OT: It won't be long before the "shooting yourselves in the foot" effect comes into play on the same people who back SOPA, so combined with the uproar it'd create and the boost in unemployment from arbitrarily downed websites it'd get overturned within a few years anyway. That said, I don't want to wait a few years to watch another Let's Play...
It's a kind of hidden internet underneath the internet. You can only get on it using the TOR browser, and preferably several proxies. It's the place where prostitutes are sold, hitmen are hired, and drugs are dealed. There's a lot of good information down there, but you have to be careful. If you want info on getting in, you can send me a PM if you need to.
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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<link=http://www.esotech.org/blog/technology/how-to-unblock-sopa-with-local-hosts-file-solutions-and-discussion>This site gives a pretty basic explanation of what I'll be doing if it passes and anything I care about gets blocked. Why manually type in IP addresses when I can essentially make my own private DNS, which the government can't touch without seizing my computer? Plus, it's /really/ easy to do. I used it to do the opposite, and block Facebook, youtube, and The Escapist during finals week last year so it would be harder for me to stop doing research to goof around.
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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dave1004 said:
binnsyboy said:
dave1004 said:
I'm Canadian, so at least I'll have Canadian websites. I'll just migrate to the Deep Web, I already participate in a pretty good forums there. Sure, it's small, but if SOPA does pass, a lot of idiotic kids are going to be flooding the Deep Web, and that will ruin the whole thing.

Works for me, anyways.
What's the deep web?

OT: It won't be long before the "shooting yourselves in the foot" effect comes into play on the same people who back SOPA, so combined with the uproar it'd create and the boost in unemployment from arbitrarily downed websites it'd get overturned within a few years anyway. That said, I don't want to wait a few years to watch another Let's Play...
It's a kind of hidden internet underneath the internet. You can only get on it using the TOR browser, and preferably several proxies. It's the place where prostitutes are sold, hitmen are hired, and drugs are dealed. There's a lot of good information down there, but you have to be careful. If you want info on getting in, you can send me a PM if you need to.
That's how 4Chan describes it, anyway. There's actually more to the deepweb than what you can get to just with the help of TOR; the figures on the amount of information contained in the deepweb include .onion sites (which you can only get to with TOR) a few other pseudo-top level domains, which need their own similar program, plus just about any other page that Google can't find, such as dynamically generated pages on company websites. Although yeah, I doubt they'd want to shut down TOR; it was developed for Naval Intelligence in the first place, they need it.

Edit: Which is why people tell you to avoid the Marianas web. That's where various classified websites that use TOR protocol are found.

Edit Edit: There's also the dark web, which is just stuff on the internet that nothing can connect to anymore because the protocols are so old. It's mostly remnants of Arpanet that haven't been disconnected for whatever reason.
 

TheLastSamurai14

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triggrhappy94 said:
I actually found a list of different IP adress for the servers of different websites, so I could still probably connect to pirating website (not like I'd use them though). Also, pirate ALWAYS find a way, you can use SOPA to nuke them back to the '90s, but they'll still recover.
The escapist might look alittle different, however.

EDIT

tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201

# News
bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252

# Social media
reddit.com 72.247.244.88
imgur.com 173.231.140.219
google.com 74.125.157.99
youtube.com 74.125.65.91
yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
bing.com 65.55.175.254
digg.com 64.191.203.30
theonion.com 97.107.137.164
hush.com 65.39.178.43
gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
ign.com 69.10.25.46
cracked.com 98.124.248.77
sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
github.com 207.97.227.239

# Torrent sites
thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
mininova.com 80.94.76.5
btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
demonoid.me 62.149.24.67

# Social networking
facebook.com 69.171.224.11
twitter.com 199.59.149.230
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
livejournal.com 209.200.154.225
dreamwidth.org 69.174.244.50
deviantart.com 199.15.160.100

# Live Streaming Content
stickam.com 67.201.54.151
blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
justin.tv 199.9.249.21
chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
omegle.com 97.107.132.144
own3d.tv 208.94.146.80
megavideo.com 174.140.154.32

# Television
gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
novamov.com 91.220.176.248
tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
1channel.com 208.87.33.151

# Shopping
amazon.com 72.21.211.176
newegg.com 216.52.208.187
frys.com 209.31.22.39

# File Sharing
mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
pastebin.com 69.65.13.216
Not my list don't get mad at me if anything is wrong.
Consult your CMD command guide for further dirrections.

Can someone get the Escapist's for me?
Just did an nslookup for The Escapist's IP. It's 209.34.224.72. Please add it to that list if you would. I'd appreciate being able to visit if the Web is effectively shut down.
 

Shavon513

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I don't know what to do if SOPA passes, but I'm fighting it as much as one citizen can. It sucks that the only way to punish piracy is to punish all Internet users, but that is what happens when the government wants to be lazy and not set up a proper solution.

This whole issue is absolutely outrageous.
 

Double A

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Pandaman1911 said:
A situation like that? Only one thing TO do- give up. "It's just the Internet", they'll say. "Stop being such a nerd and get a life", they'll say. "Maybe you'll finally get some time outside", and so on. It's pretty damn hard to seem respectable and sincere when you're bitching about how you can't watch/download what you want on the Internet.
Isn't that kind of one of the main points of the Internet, you can watch or download whatever you want, and reasonably fast to boot?
 

RatRace123

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Well, Ideally the government gets to watch as all the money that the internet pours into the economy just suddenly stops coming as advertisers get way too scared.
And then they realize how freaking stupid the entire bill is and it, and any discussion of something similar is scrapped forever, and the government finally gets up off its knees and tells the industry lobbyists "NO MORE".

But, that will never happen. So, I don't really know what would happen, or what I would do. I'd probably latch on to some sort of protest group or movement, even going so far as to actually travel to Washington or some place if need be.
I wouldn't sit around though, I'd take action.
 

Jinx_Dragon

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Pyro Ghost said:
In Reply To Wereraccoon

I'm sick of the US trying to police everyone as well. I'm sick of other countries allowing themselves to be bullied. There are some American sites that, if blocked, won't be able to be replaced by another country, such as Rooster Teeth. Immigrating isn't as easy as most people seem to think, I've been trying to get out of this country for five years now, I have health, skills, and a good education, but the countries I've been trying to get into don't seem to want an escaping American.
You wouldn't have to immigrate your persons, just your business, and that is very simple to do in a Virtual world. It would be simple to move the content to non-us servers and host through non-us websites if your providing a service on-line. You loose your US customers, this is true, but the rest of the world could still access your stuff.

Personally, we might adjust this idea into something useable as we need to make an economical hit as fast as possible. A half arsed black list isn't going to do it, but we can hit the wallets of the US people and that will spur action quickly. Might be better to consider a 'sopa tax' in where non-US web-sites charge people connecting from the US for the duration SOPA is in affect.
 

Zack1501

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just use a proxie server! google it. it will get around the blocking. i have done it at school!
 

Optiluiz

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Shunning the USA sounds like a good idea. Eventually, industries would lose a lot more than they would gain from SOPA, and they might even change things. Funny how a nation founded on principles of freedom can get so authoritarian without giant protests on the streets and such. Also, isn't there the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012? This shit just got real.
 

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Doclector said:
Frieswiththat said:
Doclector said:
We start the...erm...Sopacloaks, and rebel against the evil empire. True, thousands of angered nerds wearing blue curtains, weilding foam swords, and screaming "fu ro dah" at a load of bewildered rubber bullet happy police officers may not be that effective, but it might send a message, or at the very least, be a very interesting afternoon.
Why not use real swords? And real body armour?
Good point.

lRookiel said:
Im up for joining the SOPA cloaks, what are the requirements?

:D
You must be a nor-I mean nerd, and have an internet connection. You must also pledge that if we save the internet, we respect it by cutting out the arrow to the knee jokes.
Count me in. I will pledge to never use ANY meme ever again. Where's the recruiting station?
 

Double A

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Jinx_Dragon said:
Pyro Ghost said:
In Reply To Wereraccoon

I'm sick of the US trying to police everyone as well. I'm sick of other countries allowing themselves to be bullied. There are some American sites that, if blocked, won't be able to be replaced by another country, such as Rooster Teeth. Immigrating isn't as easy as most people seem to think, I've been trying to get out of this country for five years now, I have health, skills, and a good education, but the countries I've been trying to get into don't seem to want an escaping American.
You wouldn't have to immigrate your persons, just your business, and that is very simple to do in a Virtual world. It would be simple to move the content to non-us servers and host through non-us websites if your providing a service on-line. You loose your US customers, this is true, but the rest of the world could still access your stuff.

Personally, we might adjust this idea into something useable as we need to make an economical hit as fast as possible. A half arsed black list isn't going to do it, but we can hit the wallets of the US people and that will spur action quickly. Might be better to consider a 'sopa tax' in where non-US web-sites charge people connecting from the US for the duration SOPA is in affect.
SOPA tax? Please tell me how charging the victims money makes the situation any better.
 

madster11

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Well if SOPA hits, Google will move to another country, taking their multi billion dollar industry and fiber internet elsewhere.
 

Joccaren

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Lear said:
Doclector said:
Frieswiththat said:
Doclector said:
We start the...erm...Sopacloaks, and rebel against the evil empire. True, thousands of angered nerds wearing blue curtains, weilding foam swords, and screaming "fu ro dah" at a load of bewildered rubber bullet happy police officers may not be that effective, but it might send a message, or at the very least, be a very interesting afternoon.
Why not use real swords? And real body armour?
Good point.

lRookiel said:
Im up for joining the SOPA cloaks, what are the requirements?

:D
You must be a nor-I mean nerd, and have an internet connection. You must also pledge that if we save the internet, we respect it by cutting out the arrow to the knee jokes.
Count me in. I will pledge to never use ANY meme ever again. Where's the recruiting station?
I will begin gathering the ANZAC battalion for the SOPAcloak army. We will fly in as soon as the bill passes.
 

RipRoaringWaterfowl

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Joccaren said:
Lear said:
Doclector said:
Frieswiththat said:
Doclector said:
We start the...erm...Sopacloaks, and rebel against the evil empire. True, thousands of angered nerds wearing blue curtains, weilding foam swords, and screaming "fu ro dah" at a load of bewildered rubber bullet happy police officers may not be that effective, but it might send a message, or at the very least, be a very interesting afternoon.
Why not use real swords? And real body armour?
Good point.

lRookiel said:
Im up for joining the SOPA cloaks, what are the requirements?

:D
You must be a nor-I mean nerd, and have an internet connection. You must also pledge that if we save the internet, we respect it by cutting out the arrow to the knee jokes.
Count me in. I will pledge to never use ANY meme ever again. Where's the recruiting station?
I will begin gathering the ANZAC battalion for the SOPAcloak army. We will fly in as soon as the bill passes.
Understood. I'll get the money vaccuum ready; that'll probably hurt the politicans, lobbyists, and the companies the most. YEE-HAW!