SOPA

KingIsaacLinksr · January 04, 2012, 10:09:44 AM

Yeah....while Nintendo and Sony pulled support of SOPA rather quickly...ESA makes it a bit null and void atm.

King

Rico · January 12, 2012, 08:45:36 AM

A blackout of some key websites is set for January 18th (including Reddit, and maybe even Wikipedia and others). I think this might go a long way to show how bad SOPA could be if it somehow was able to pass.

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/12/sopa-reddit-confirms-january-18-blackout-wikipedia-and-others-may-follow/

Dangelus · January 16, 2012, 08:30:49 AM

House kills SOPA!!

http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa

Rico · January 16, 2012, 08:38:16 AM

Quote from: Dangelus on January 16, 2012, 08:30:49 AM
House kills SOPA!!

http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa

I don't think that article is accurate.

Dangelus · January 16, 2012, 08:44:02 AM

Quote from: Rico on January 16, 2012, 08:38:16 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on January 16, 2012, 08:30:49 AM
House kills SOPA!!

http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa

I don't think that article is accurate.

Great. It's all over the Internet already! Some back peddling needs doing then.

Rico · January 16, 2012, 08:51:23 AM

As they say, "it ain't over until it's over." Plus, next up we have PIPA. Bottom line is, they need a better way than this.

KingIsaacLinksr · January 16, 2012, 08:51:47 AM

Well, the bill is basically dead in the water. The key part of the legislation was removed and the White House will veto it no matter what.

Last I heard PIPA is sketchy so...maybe?

Btw, expect the protests from the websites soon, I think Reddit is the largest website to go dark.

King

Rico · January 18, 2012, 08:47:11 AM

So, what do people think of the blackouts? I like it!

Bryancd · January 18, 2012, 08:50:30 AM

I think it's great and I agree with king that this sucker has no political backing at this point.

QuadShot · January 18, 2012, 09:04:18 AM

Personally I think sopa is needed. I mean, think how bad the world would be without it! Wait...I meant soap. Got the letters mixed up. Never mind! :)

moyer777 · January 18, 2012, 09:05:42 AM

Quote from: QuadShot on January 18, 2012, 09:04:18 AM
Personally I think sopa is needed. I mean, think how bad the world would be without it! Wait...I meant soap. Got the letters mixed up. Never mind! :)

:)

KingIsaacLinksr · January 18, 2012, 09:10:17 AM

I wrote a rather...passionate bit on my blog here: www.kingisaaclinksr.wordpress.com about SOPA and PIP and go on a blackout.

I will not support censorship, no matter what.

-King

billybob476 · January 18, 2012, 09:31:54 AM

Good move on Google's part: http://searchengineland.com/google-slows-web-crawlers-to-help-blackouts-sites-108477

They are 'slowing' their web crawlers so that blacked out sites don't have their blacked-out states indexed and cached.

KingIsaacLinksr · January 18, 2012, 09:46:42 AM

MPAA CEO is speaking out, saying it is irresponsible to have free speech rights. Ok ok, my words, we just don't support fattening his wallet. His real statement is that it is irresponsible of Reddit and Wikipedia and others to "punish" their customers by protesting SOPA and PIP. Right...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/18/2715892/MPAA-CEO-chris-dodd-statement-sopa-blackout-protest

Full Press Release from the MPAA here:
http://www.mpaa.org/resources/c4c3712a-7b9f-4be8-bd70-25527d5dfad8.pdf

Btw, I'm just loling over this. xD.

King

QuadShot · January 18, 2012, 09:57:44 AM

While I agree that SOPA and the like is way off base, and should never be passed, I do kind of agree that "blacking out" sites is realistically punishing the wrong people. Do any of us honestly believe that by blacking out Wikipedia, government is going to go "hey, they're RIGHT!". Don't think so. I understand the concept behind it. I do. Like don't buy gas on this day to punish oil companies. But that doesn't work either. By blacking out certain sites, the end users (that's US by the way) are punished because we can't access them when we WANT to or when we NEED to. Does this make me more sympathetic to them? Nope. Kind of pisses me off that I can't access the sites I want to. And just for the record, not everyone in the entertainment industry is shady and contemptuous and only care about money :) Just my two cents...