Protect IP & SOPA: The Internet Blacklist

[Zero]

He wasn't advocating it so much as looking the other way.

 

[Mako321]

Intel now supports SOPA.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

They've supported it for a while AFAIK.

 

[XCVG]

http://sopastrike.com/

Interesting, not sure if I want the downtime but it'll certainly get people's attention.

 

[Prog]

So far only Reddit is officially doing it, but hopefully Google and Facebook will do it as well.

 

[Ashen]

http://www.qj.net/images/stories/razer*Can'tSayThisOnTV*sopa.jpg
lol

http://www.qj.net/xbox-360/news/more-ga ... loser.html

http://www.qj.net/ps3/news/senate-postp ... -vote.html

For now, the SOPA hearing is postponed indefinitely. But the issue won’t be settled until the bill is either discarded, or voted down. As long as it hangs in the air, there’s a potential of its passage. The Obama administration issued a statement in opposition to the bill (though soft), and internet blackout events are still scheduled to occur on the 18th.


Issa summed the issue up nicely:


“The voice of the internet community has been heard. Much more education for members of Congress about the workings of the internet is essential if anti-piracy legislation is to be workable and achieve broad appeal.”

 

[Mako321]

Here you go.
http://i.imgur.com/0Gz2S.jpg

 

[AfroLH]

He wasn't advocating it so much as looking the other way.

He straight up said "Just go ahead and pirate it."

That seems like advocating to me

 

[Zero]

Nah, he clarified further and said this:

Well, I don't exactly "approve", but I think it's a minor offense in the scale of things. Jaywalking level. Littering.

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/1 ... 1736456192

 

[bic]

Wikipedia officially announced a protest blackout:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative

 

[Tchay]

Badass.

*Can'tSayThisOnTV* SOPA.

 

[Zero]

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/

Whaaaaaaat

And this was the day after the SOPA blackout. There is no way this a coincidence.

 

[Σigma]

And this was the day after the SOPA blackout. There is no way this a coincidence.

^This. Any other time, and it would've been seen as inevitable. But in retaliation for the public protest? Unacceptable.

 

[XCVG]

I'm sad now. Megaupload was a nice site, and I actually had some legit stuff on there.

Is "safe harbor" already dead, even without SOPA?

 

[Zero]

I think that's the message they were trying to send across.

A sort of "*Can'tSayThisOnTV* you, we don't need SOPA anyway to do whatever we want".

 

[bic]

Then why spend so much time, money, and effort on it?

This just helps the anti-SOPA argument. They can already shut down sites that are primarily for IP theft (even if they claim a "no we're not wink wink nudge nudge" description) through existing laws.

e: Also the feds got the Canuckistan and New Zealand feds to help them. I think something besides piracy is afoot...

I'm sad now. Megaupload was a nice site, and I actually had some legit stuff on there.

Is "safe harbor" already dead, even without SOPA?

Yeah but 90% of the stuff on megaupload (and Megavideo) was ripped, copied, cracked, or porn.

The thing about the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA is, you're only safe as long as you make a reasonable effort to take down the infringing material in a certain timeframe once you're made aware of it. SOPA would eliminate that and open every website with user-generated content immediately liable for the things their users post. It takes the existing model of "allow everything and weed out the infringing material" and flips it around so legit content has to be approved if sites want to remain completely safe.

Let's say a one-click upload service is a flea market, and in between all the auto parts, pottery, and antiques there's a guy selling knockoff handbags. Under the DMCA, the cops can go in with the organizer and shut him down. Under SOPA, the cops can nuke the whole place from orbit at their discretion and ask questions later. (They can also do the same to sites which link to the file sharing site call in hits on everyone who talks about the flea market and shut down web crawler based search engines which found it the Yellow Pages for listing it.

If SOPA was written and signed into law during the Clinton administration, I think the user-driven, Google-indexed Internet as we know it probably wouldn't exist.

e: VVVV And stealing another man's porn is just that, isn't it?

 

[grossaffe]

Yeah but 90% of the stuff on megaupload (and Megavideo) was ripped, copied, cracked, or porn.

you do NOT *Can'tSayThisOnTV* with a man's porn!

 

[Prog]

That created a serious problem. Now, we can't flood Washington in retaliation.

 

[Zero]

They responded to DMCA takedowns, just not all of them, and VERY slowly.

It's still bullflax they arrested them even though they didn't live here. I don't blame Canada and NZ so much because they were probably scared of the repercussions of saying no to the US.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

America: Because *Can'tSayThisOnTV* you, that's why.