SOPA, which side of the line are you on?
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Piracy ? What in blazes would SOPA/PIPA do against piracy ? Even if they blocked sites, or forced credit card companies to withhold payments to supicous sites, it would do absolutly nothing against rampant piracy in china, south america or eastern europe. Also, I am damn sure that you can find a way to get payments to "pirate sites" that circumvent these restrictions faster then hooker in las vegas.Miles000 said:
Well, it is still a thinly veiled attempt of the dinosaurs of modern entertainment to finally gather the legal means to nuke any opposition that might grow in that nasty free market they all hate so much.
Stepping down from DNS-blocking is just a little distraction to the underlying threat of small companies suddenly beeing cut off from their financial assets.
They literally tell us: "It's fine now, see ? We removed the secondary biological warhead from the tactical nuke we aim at your home! Trust us, we wouldn't use it against you, we just want to point it at you!"
In response, we should create a petittion to enable tax payers to imidiattly shut down bank accounts of corporations if claims of tax evasion or embazzlement are beeing brought forth. We all hate embezzlement and tax evasion, and shutting down bank accounts accused of these horrible crimes so they can be investigated is the ONLY way we could stop it.
I've asked the Tech Team if they have plans to join Reddit, Mojang and hopefully Wikipedia in their protest blackout.kebab4you said:
But they haven't replied yet.
Feel free to help support the idea.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/chat/Tech-Team
It falls on ZP day, which I believe would be most effective.
I'm fairly sure everyone's answer will be the same. No-one on the internet with common sense supports SOPA. So yeah, I'm definitely not for it.
There's no need to put pirates and SOPA-opposers on the same boat though. SOPA is dangerous to far more than just pirates.
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There's no need to put pirates and SOPA-opposers on the same boat though. SOPA is dangerous to far more than just pirates.
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This is one of the best things I've heard for a long time. I salute you.Arkvoodle said:
But it's still a step in the right direction.LorienvArden said:
So far as I can tell, not many people are falling for it. Every site that put their name on the blackout list, remains there. Even more are still being added to it.
But it is progress. It is a sign that we are scaring supporters of the act!
In a perfect world...
Agreed, A non retarded way at that. The RIAA is a bully who sucks off congress members with bribe while it only represents talent less autotuned production line approved music.......Plus they protect Beiber.Arkvoodle said:
Nice avatar BTW loved that game
No one who uses the interenet should be supporting SOPA. It's like supporting someone nuking your home town because you have a cockroach problem. Now your just left with a nukular wasteland filled with cockroaches.
PIPA is a smaller nukular bomb. Which doesn't much matter when your watching a mushroom cloud rise over your house.
PIPA is a smaller nukular bomb. Which doesn't much matter when your watching a mushroom cloud rise over your house.
Strictly against it.
Even if the ideals it claimed to be supporting were the only factor to consider, i,e stop pirates, I still wouldn't support it. Because there will still be piracy, always. So it's useless.
Even if the ideals it claimed to be supporting were the only factor to consider, i,e stop pirates, I still wouldn't support it. Because there will still be piracy, always. So it's useless.
SOPA isn't about Piracy. It won't stop it and won't help the fight against it. It is just corporate censorship, corporations trying to control the internet and politicians not knowing what it will actually do.
SOPA has no place on the internet.
Why?
Because the internet isnt an actual place. Isnt JUST in the United States.
Why?
Because the internet isnt an actual place. Isnt JUST in the United States.
