SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

word, that's an easy one. I just added a huge paragraph of "Prove that you actually represent the citizens of this country" to the template.

also

  On 1/18/2012 at 1:43 PM, data said:

twitter reactions to wikipedia being down: https://twitter.com/...#!/herpderpedia

 

what's up with google? i expected them to atleast put up a banner ..

they have, but it's only viewable inside the U.S

  On 1/18/2012 at 1:54 PM, luke viia said:

word, that's an easy one. I just added a huge paragraph of "Prove that you actually represent the citizens of this country" to the template.

 

also

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yeah, I was about to post this link up about SOPA being alive and well. http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-is-baaack-120117/ We need to keep on top of it and continue to let people know what's up.

Also, looking at the Wiki posts on twitter is a total ... "Wikipedia doesn't want us to use SOAP now? WTF?" lol..... and people asking why it's not working. Are they too retarded to read the information explaining what's going on that is right in front of them on their screen????

yeah the soap one seemed like a joke anyways. i am sure a bunch of people are legit confused. peopel are stupid.

Is everyone gonna change their facebook profiles to this:

I'm still amazed that the premise of these bills is that by blocking Americans from being able to view "pirated" content, we will apparently buy more movies, music, and whatever else can be sold at inflated prices. News flash, assholes: this country just got ran into the ground for the next century. We're broker than broke. Oh, and Hollywood is still - somehow - breaking box office records every year. Clearly they're the ones that need help.

Not to mention that our government is pushing OTHER COUNTRIES to adopt this nonsense, and where money goes, apparently legislation will follow. This is part of the reason why we need the whole world to speak up and nip these bills in the bud.

Fuck you MPAA. The RIAA already lost this battle years ago.

it's a sad lol that corporations seem to think that by charging more money for the same product, they are somehow going to get their profits back. And the government talks about a free market.

By the way, the President of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is a 30-year senator.

i dont care about this hole pollitics and ellections deal much, pard, but i herd that if you press esc/cancel WHILE loading the wikipage than you need to seer, like git it just right it, then goes POW in the kisser! and there you have it! free wikipediers with no county shieff telling you what to say or how to park my truck, dagnabbit!

Yea if you just hit stop before the scripting loads ..

  On 1/18/2012 at 2:20 PM, luke viia said:

I'm still amazed that the premise of these bills is that by blocking Americans from being able to view "pirated" content, we will apparently buy more movies, music, and whatever else can be sold at inflated prices. News flash, assholes: this country just got ran into the ground for the next century. We're broker than broke. Oh, and Hollywood is still - somehow - breaking box office records every year. Clearly they're the ones that need help.

 

Not to mention that our government is pushing OTHER COUNTRIES to adopt this nonsense, and where money goes, apparently legislation will follow. This is part of the reason why we need the whole world to speak up and nip these bills in the bud.

 

Fuck you MPAA. The RIAA already lost this battle years ago.

 

it's a sad lol that corporations seem to think that by charging more money for the same product, they are somehow going to get their profits back. And the government talks about a free market.

 

By the way, the President of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is a 30-year senator.

Yeah, I saw a great quote within the last couple days that went something like "When it comes to the budget congress can't make a decision, but when Hollywood starts writing checks to back things like SOPA people from both sides are more than willing to work together to make it happen."

They don't give a shit about this country. They only line their pockets by pandering to lobbyists and special interests.

edit: found the actual quote: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on CNBC: "Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the deficit, there's deadlock, but when Hollywood lobbyists pay them $94 million dollars to write legislation, people from both sides of the aisle line up to co-sponsor it?"

well, my campus closed today for the weather, so it looks like I'll be raging around the innernets for a while today, signing what can be signed and torrenting books about intellectual property rights.

dont pretend you care about intellectual property rights you fraud. your half the reason the mods went SOPA on my threads' ass. thanks coward

id like to take this opportunity to personally thank which ever mod (s) sent my thread to the nonsense forum. internet censorship and tyranny is fun when you have power isnt it?

follow the truth people. they only need to censor our online material for a little while longer until they take the whole thing away. tell everyone you know

*sings out in anger*

hey ET i'm going to be straight with you, because i just had lunch.

you're a try-hard and a rehasher. your style is just a style upon a style, and it's starting to reek.

find a new schtik or set boosters to hyperdrive and step the FUCK back to where you came from.

hear hear!

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:00 PM, ET said:

id like to take this opportunity to personally thank which ever mod (s) sent my thread to the nonsense forum. internet censorship and tyranny is fun when you have power isnt it?

First of all, it doesn't take more mods to move a thread. It takes only one. Also I didn't do it because personally I thought your thread was hilarious and stupid in an ET-kinda-way. Second of all, there's a difference between internet censorship and throwing away trash.

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:07 PM, iep said:

hey ET i'm going to be straight with you, because i just had lunch.

 

 

you're a try-hard and a rehasher. your style is just a style upon a style, and it's starting to reek.

 

 

find a new schtik or set boosters to hyperdrive and step the FUCK back to where you came from.

+1

There is this famous historian in Portugal who happens to be one of my teachers, and he is very demanding and rigorous in his profession. Somehow he created a few works for us to do throughout the year, which turned out to be a very clever trap, showing how useless it can be to consult wikipedia and similar sources, and showing that it gets so much easier to think for ourselves, resulting in better learning and better results. I have watched for myself how some of my pals have become so dependent on wikipedia and pretty much everything that is able to think for them. it's kind of a depressing conclusion.

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:00 PM, ET said:

dont pretend you care about intellectual property rights you fraud. your half the reason the mods went SOPA on my threads' ass. thanks coward

Right, well, I'd like to keep this thread on track, so here's a few videos regarding online content/privacy laws and why this all matters.

Both lectures are by Larry Lessig, author of "Free Culture," a book about intellectual copyright law, and freely available online.

"How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc

"Laws that Choke Creativity"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

Hey,

Hopping on for the first time in a few months, and was hoping for a more spirited protest on here. Seeing as most of us are content creators, who are informed well enough to know SOPA/PIPA is "knee-jerk" over reaction drawn up with the interests of Hollywood in mind.

Anyway, just would like to say, inform who you can, and if you're American I URGE you to contact your local representative. Please.

on a final note, id just like to say this. im only human (or am i?), and i can only do so much. im far from perfect and i wish there were more people who are far more intellectual and better spoken than i, that could do this all for me. im what youve got, except the good news is theres a bunch of us on this forum and others, who know exactly whats going on. they just arent speaking up for some reason. give em time, they will as this unfolds. lets see you defend freedom for a population of people who dont want it. its not as easy as it looks

and finally, how ironic is it, that my threads attempts to protect our rights were stopped dead in its tracks, on internet censorship day? theres different of types of censorship people, it comes in many forms, look around you. and of course, i look out my front window, to see snow for the first time in 2012

ok. enough about that - i dont want to distract any further the purpose of this thread. this is important - i hope you all eventually come around to realizing how evil this and other bills to come really are

stop SOPA!

good luck fellow humans!

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:40 PM, ET said:

good luck fellow humans!

i ain't your fellow human, buddy

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:57 PM, iep said:

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:40 PM, ET said:

good luck fellow humans!

 

i ain't your fellow human, buddy

well i ain't your buddy, pal

For anyone using Firefox,

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/

DNS Evasion

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  On 1/18/2012 at 5:19 PM, ET said:

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:57 PM, iep said:

  On 1/18/2012 at 4:40 PM, ET said:

good luck fellow humans!

 

i ain't your fellow human, buddy

 

well i ain't your buddy, pal

i ain't your pal, friend