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Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

#101 Mentalist

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 09:56 PM

apparently, megaupload was down already. and the Act's not even law yet.

I don't normally put stuff on facebook, but this is smth that's worth all the attention it gets.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#102 dktorode

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 10:55 PM

http://get.airbornemusic.com/

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Why dont they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

#103 dktorode

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 11:08 PM

tell me....what use is a "record" company when no one is buying records anymore?

if an artist makes a good noise, there is nothing stoping them from selling their 'wares' to the public.

that is what copyright has become. Taking an artists work and sellling it as their own in a sense,

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Why dont they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 04:04 AM

The guy is exuberant and while there is matter for calling part of this near conspiracy theory, he's come up with excellent points that need to be addressed.

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 11:04 AM

Go daddy has reversed its decision to support SOPA after reddit and a whole host of others boycotted it. From what I gather it helped draft the act in the 1st place. For a hosting company this is ludicrous. Never liked go daddy, it's always been a bit of a bully boy.

Anyhoo...

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 07:20 AM

Well they 'reversed' their decision. They still helped write the damn bill.

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bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 02:46 PM

Truth is Record companies, as many other things nowadays are
no
longer
needed
Chew on that. Trying to stop piracy just for their sake is madness and not worth it at all.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 08:18 AM

Well it looks like SOPA is going to be passed.

Unless a miracle happens between now and the end of recess.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 08:23 AM

They're about to kill ze internets :rofl:

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:51 AM

worrywort, on 01 December 2011 - 11:43 AM, said:

[...] it simply avoids the monetary transaction that perhaps ought to have gone with it. [...]

that phrase put a BIG SMILE on my face. it's beautiful. And subtle.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 11:37 PM

Aww, thank you. I didn't pirate it or anything.

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 02:12 PM

So Wikipedia is going to shut down for 24 hours to protest against SOPA and PIPA.

Other sites are going to follow suit, like Mozilla, Reddit and - for some of us more importantly - Icanhascheezburger.com.

As support is already waning, with SOPA apparently dead altogether, actions like these will hopefully, hopefully garner enough attention to put an end to this lunacy.

So... thoughts? Predictions?

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 02:19 PM

I read today that the White House is going to oppose it. Good news.

#114 Mentalist

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:04 PM

we can only hope....

in a bit of brighter news: Canada is looking into revising its ownCopyright Act , supposedly offering MORE protections for users.

I haven't had a chance to look at the draft yet, but one thing i've heard mentioned was that it will make an exception for copyright material being used on sites like youtube (so that you would be able to include a copyrighted song in your wedding album, and it would be considered "fair use").

moves like these fill me with hope when I look at the madness of SOPA.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:28 PM

Mentalist, on 17 January 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

That would be brilliant! I love it when a government thinks of ways to improve legislation that don't involve *increasing* restrictions on the population.

Now if only NZ can learn from this example, and from the response to SOPA/PIPA.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 12:02 AM

Mentalist, on 17 January 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

It sounds like the Canadians actually have a bit of common sense.

Very rare in governments in this day and age.

Even better it will piss of the American record and movie companies Posted Image

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#117 worry

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 01:03 AM

I dunno. Governments seem to be saner now than ever before. When they have problems, it's usually due to backsliding (or having never progressed much).

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#118 Mentalist

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 04:46 AM

Hust, on 18 January 2012 - 12:02 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 17 January 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

It sounds like the Canadians actually have a bit of common sense.

Very rare in governments in this day and age.

Even better it will piss of the American record and movie companies Posted Image

well, our Supreme Court did (as I mentioned a while back) make a ruling that content host should not be responsible for filtering uploaded content--which is pretty much the opposite of what SOPA's all about. So we already have a SCC decison that says "we don't believe that everyone-is-a-pirate-untill-we-scanned-them-to-make-sure-they-are-not"

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#119 Mentalist

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 03:21 PM

Wikipedia, reddit, and a bunch of other sites have "gone dark" for the day in protest of SOPA/PIPA.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 10:13 PM

And Forbes provides some interesting historical perspective from thirty years ago,

when the then head of the MPAA declared that:

"The public is the loser when creative property is taken and here is the reason why. The investment of hundreds of millions of dollars each year to produce quality programs to theaters and television will surely decline."

regarding the use of the home VCR.

so yeah........

storyhere

meh. Link was dead :(