lol Which is why SOPA needs to be heavily revised. Uploading a song for people to download, I understand. But being arrested just because your video had MJ music in the background thanks to a passing car.. Or something. Thinking about it, it'd be hilarious.
You do know how many people will lose their jobs if production companies lose the right to royalties, right?
Very lol indeed.
You know what I find truly "lol" is how you can actually support these bills and scumbags like Rupert Murdoch who support this garbage.
I read parts of this thread and the Wikipedia page but I still don't understand whats going on. All I see in SOPA is the word SOAP, which makes me want to play Sonic Adventure 2.
Anyone care to fill me in? If not, I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I feel that I should have a grasp on what this all means to me as a web developer.
"The SOPA online piracy bill that helped spark this week's unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor said Friday.
The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) had hoped to push his Stop Online Piracy Act through the committee next month. But in the wake of growing opposition triggered by Wednesday's Internet blackout, Smith said the committee "will postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution.""
@Ryno my thoughts exactly. Also that and they have arrested people in other countries.
I used to use megaupload to backup school work (as well as external hard drives ans flash drives) until I got my Ubuntu One account. It's sad to see it go. DVD's and CD's can "host" pirated material but you don't see them outlawing those... yet probably.
If someone would actually bother to read bit more about the Megaupload thing, you'd find out that the whole site was a big shady business. Its owners knew about the piracy and even supported it by giving cash rewards to top uploaders, used it for their own piracy needs and even if they were told to take stuff down, seems like they ignored a lot of it or did a half-ed job on purpose. And its not something FBI just decided to take down for fun: It was a operation thats been going on for two years and there's a whole lot of evidence.
So in short, the owners of Megaupload were criminals, they're now caught and hopefully their little piracy business is over. Sucks for those who actually uploaded legit stuff, but you can only blame the MU-owners for not being legit as well, or not doing proper work covering that.
EDIT: Here's the whole indigement. For those who dont want to go trough every piece of legality, start from page 29. Thats where it gets interesting. I bet none of the Anonymous read this. http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
So? You saying its somekind of government conspiracy? If it is, its a conspiracy to undermine SOPA, as now the Government has just showed that they can fight against the piracy without it or its kin.
I don't get how the us government is able to do whatever they want to the Internet. I mean this its called the world wide web after all
exactly.... that will effect the US when other countries blame us
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I don't get how the us government is able to do whatever they want to the Internet. I mean this its called the world wide web after all
What? You don't get it? Allow me to clarify for you:
Also, according to reports, the Megaupload takedown has been a long time coming...over a year in the making in fact. The difference between how it currently is and how it would be under SOPA would be...under SOPA, all it would take is an accusation of copyright infringement in order to take down a website for supposed infringing materials...
Who I feel bad for are those people that stored non-infringing material onto Megaupload that I keep hearing about, hopefully, they'll be given the opportunity to retrieve that information as it wouldn't make sense for the US government to have erased everything since it'll be used as evidence.
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Entertainment Software Association backing down from it's support of SOPA. Gotta love how companies, organizations and politicians with the spine of a Dragon Quest slime back down and sway back and forth with their views, in accordance with public opinion.
In the world of business and politics these days, the answer to everything for something you favor/oppose is getting public opinion in your favor. The second these people think they're going to take a PR (and therefore monetary) hit, they back down, and downplay their original support. And politicians once ready to attack part of the foundation of what the USA is have backed down and are now once again champions of the freedoms SOPA assaulted. Classic. Just classic.
I hate pirates so much I'd willingly give up funny hitler parodies on YouTube to thwart them. Just throw some polish on the wording of it so it's clearly just about pirate sites where people go to illegally share and download copyrighted materials. Then we can stop worrying about all the protesting from big Internet companies trying to garner popular opinion and the doomsayers worried about sites like nintendolife (for reals?). When the language is cleaned up everyone not stealing things can just agree it's the right thing to do.
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SOPA pretty much exists right now anyhow. Government can still seize websites and have been for a long time. It's just these acts would just speed up that process.
Example: Shutdown of MegaUpload, the 13th most popular website in the world.
Well as comment #2 said it is a U.S. law (however it will affect us Canadians, or will it make our sites the new NA sites?) I get all my information here, so I have nothing to worry about. (Of course I do have a bad habit of going on Wikipedia)
Most of the world's leading sites are US-based. Think of YouTube, Facebook or Reddit, for example. If they get taken down, even us outside of the US are deeply affected by it. MegaUpload was used by many people outside of the US as well. It made up like 4% of the WHOLE internet. It was one of the most popular sites on the planet. Just think about that for a moment.
Apperently, they don't even need SOPA/PIPA in the first place. Imagine how much ground the US government would have on top of that if these bills had been passed.
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