SOPA Storms Back

[Rule Britannia]

FML. I understood that it would strike back ¬.¬ but this fucking soon!? Bullshit. I doubt it will be passed though there won't be enough time to adjust the bill to make it work (moslty because it can't work).

(if the Bill is passed)
I imagine Lamar Smith will go home go to his Windows 98 computer open up a new tab on his version 5 internet explorer go on a website and have it blocked under his own bill.

back to reality:
What's anonymous doing about this? I'm sure they'll save the day...no really, I want anonymous to kill congress with fiery internet justice (although it may just worsen the whole situation)

 

[Glerken]

SOPA "protected American jobs" they say. Is Google not an American company. Is FaceBook not an American company. how many time have you posted some type of copyrighted content or link to copyrighted content to a forum or FaceBook

Copyrighted content can be posted with reason. That's called fair use, and I'm quite sure SOPA doesn't abolish fair use.

I'd appreciate not getting quoted a million times about why SOPA is bad. I never said I supported it.

FML. I understood that it would strike back ¬.¬ but this fucking soon!? Bullshit. I doubt it will be passed though there won't be enough time to adjust the bill to make it work (moslty because it can't work).

(if the Bill is passed)
I imagine Lamar Smith will go home go to his Windows 98 computer open up a new tab on his version 5 internet explorer go on a website and have it blocked under his own bill.

back to reality:
What's anonymous doing about this? I'm sure they'll save the day...no really, I want anonymous to kill congress with fiery internet justice (although it may just worsen the whole situation)

Just wondering. How would they do that. I don't think you can DDOS Congress. People could actually go protest and write their congressmen with their concerns about the bill. But it's much easier to just complain about how bad it is on a gaming forum.

And I'm quite sure Obama said he'd veto the bill even if it did pass. Why is this still an issue?

 

[cookyy2k]

And the fact the "blackout" has turned into a few houses turning out their lights wont help.

(Reuters) - A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players.

source [http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/us-internet-protest-idUSTRE80H01U20120118]

Facebook and twitter are not going to be playing as spreading the word, gotta get that money while they can I suppose.

 

[GoddyofAus]

Leave it to the Republicans to be so egomaniacal that they don't take Obama's veto threat seriously. We'll see who has the last laugh.

 

[Xanthious]

"Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February," he continued. "I am committed to continuing to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that saves American jobs and protects intellectual property."

That there boys and girls is what people in the political field call "spin". If you take that quote at face value you would be incredibly sadly mistaken. As a public service I will translate the above message.

*ahem* "Well ya see, right now we don't have enough support to get this fucking thing out of the committee phase, never mind a full up or down vote. However, because the entertainment industry has a whole fucking lot of money we are going to take the next few weeks to pester the well thinking members of The House about possibly changing their stance on the issue in exchange for sexual favors or gifts of bacon. Although this will likely produce no results we have to give it the ole college try lest our big piles o money from the entertainment lobbyists dry up. We hope you understand. . . . . . .P.S. America! Fuck Yeah!"

 

[Astoria]

Fantastic. It'd be nice if the entertainment industry justly got all the revenue it deserves whilst just asking for billion dollar empires to be more proactive in the fight against piracy. Maybe the internet is a tame-able beast?

What jobs is he talking about? Won't SOPA destory all kinds of jobs like some of the ones people on the escapist have?

Nope it won't destroy anything that isn't infringing on copyright. The Bill is so tightly worded that it really can only be used against torrent sites, tv show links and so on. Forums, youtube and so on will be safe; people just want you to believe they aren't and hope you haven't read the bill for yourself.

Ok so how about you make a tread translating what the entire bill says into normal language because I'm sure I'm not the only who can hardly understand those things due to how they're worded. You keep saying it's worded well but never say how and with references to the bill. If you want people on side then explain to them, don't just get angry at people for not believing you when you give them no reason to. I really hope you're right but there's a hell of a lot of people saying you aren't.

OT: That sure didn't take long. I guess all those blackouts are going ahead then? Or was this part of the plan to catch them off guard so they don't protest?

 

[Quantum Star]

Good lord, time to move to England.

Or up here in Canada! We are always welcoming refugees!

It'll be just like the days of the Draft Dodgers all over again. Welcome to the land of the beaver and home of the hockey stick my American friends.

 

[Mechanix]

Isn't it funny that there's no way this bill would go anywhere if he didn't make mention of "saving jobs"? It's a complete lie of course, but that's the reason it's even gotten any attention. If it can save jobs, people will listen. Unfortunately, many can't see through the bullshit.

 

[Furyaki12]

"Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February," he continued. "I am committed to continuing to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that saves American jobs and protects intellectual property."

That there boys and girls is what people in the political field call "spin". If you take that quote at face value you would be incredibly sadly mistaken. As a public service I will translate the above message.

*ahem* "Well ya see, right now we don't have enough support to get this fucking thing out of the committee phase, never mind a full up or down vote. However, because the entertainment industry has a whole fucking lot of money we are going to take the next few weeks to pester the well thinking members of The House about possibly changing their stance on the issue in exchange for sexual favors or gifts of bacon. Although this will likely produce no results we have to give it the ole college try lest our big piles o money from the entertainment lobbyists dry up. We hope you understand. . . . . . .P.S. America! Fuck Yeah!"

Read that in the Southern accent it was probably expected to be read in.

Many thanks for brightening mah mood, good sir.

 

[Lucem712]

Wikipedia went dark. It's begun. Let them feel the darkness!

 

[maswell]

Is that guy out to lunch? SOPA will KILL jobs. I'm not american but for pete's sake, start writing letters people!!!

 

[Marudas]

I'm fuming enough volatile hatred towards these senators at this point that I'm surprised they haven't burst into flames at the thoughts alone.

None of this makes sense. Firstly, SOPA does nothing to protect IP or "American Jobs", the piracy will continue, we'll simply have handed alot of stupid Businesses a very absurd weapon for their legal divisions to use. If anything, it'll kill American jobs when Youtube, Facebook and other like internet businesses get sued out of existence. And lets not forget that the censorship is completely circumventable.

But the part that really gets me is the "Foreign Thieves" part. A huge portion of the downloading that supports and drives the piracy is done by people here in America. This is pure, 100% distilled congress bullshit. They're using select words to try to manipulate a result. What the Congressman meant to say was "Me and my friends in this corrupt system of government haven't quite situated our retirement plans yet, so we decided to pull SOPA off the shelf so the sanctioned, Legalized bribing can continue." That's all this is about. That's all most of our legislation is about these days. I only wonder when people will say enough and throw this circus of a government out on their asses.

 

[Frostbite3789]

SOPA will pass and then be repealed after the consequences are fully realized. Did anyone expect it to be completely gone?

I think you're pretty optimistic. But I knew it was coming back.

...I just didn't expect it to rise in a day.

Once Google relocates, felonies among 18-25 years olds skyrocket, and it brings about several lengthy (and expensive) court battles/challenges they will see how much they fucked up.

Sort of like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNy_GNWwhQk]?

 

[Innegativeion]

yes! SOPA IS GO-what... really? No... aw... god damn I just... RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH******generic noise of frustration******

Spoiler: AAAAAAAAAAGHDHGHDSGGHHGHGHGHGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR

Oi... alright internet, mobilize. We gotta beat this shit down and salt the earth it was grown on.

 

[Zaydin]

Gotta wonder if Lamar Smith went behind the backs of other House Members for this. After all, I imagine the RIAA and the MPAA are throwing money at him to keep their pet bill alive. I really hope Mr. Smith gets thrown out of office this year.

 

[Kiwilove]

Posting this while it's still legal to do so

Spoiler

 

[Smeggs]

Foreign thieves...?

The American consumer probably does the most pirating of anyone >_>

It's total bullshit anyway. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this is just the government taking a shot at the first amendment trying to control the populace even more.

 

[emge]

As long as the cost of trying to stop Piracy doesn't overcome that of the imaginary sums they are going to save on it, there will be a fight to stop it. This is what happens when you have a US president that focuses more on improving conditions in the US than going to war with everything that moves. ;P

 

[Miles000]

I totally called this!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.338470-SOPA-is-NOT-dead

When you are all sitting at home, bored, with nothing to do. Just remember I called this!

[sub]If Yahtzee gets to take credit for calling something, so do I![/sub]

 

[kurokenshi]

It's still moving! Hit it again!