SOPA (maybe?) DroppedFollow

Well it just goes to show you that the people who don't know about SOPA/PIPA are the scum of the barrel. Or whatever the phrase is.

Edited, Jan 18th 2012 7:46pm by Timelordwho

That one looks like what happens when a website fucks up loading on my smartphone.

Wow, I had no idea so many people used lolwiki. The only time I ever look at it is when of you clowns links something.

Looking at that feed it's quite funny at all the people losing their shit who don't know how to actually look things up other than using wikipedia.

Indeed. I can sort of understand the girl who complained about google being down, if it had actually been down... All it did was put a black banner over the logo, you could still use it. Even if it had been down, there are other search engines.

I love how this issue went from a very limited exposure in the US for months to congress pooping their pants thinking of a reason why they need to listen to their constituents and oppose the bill in the matter of hours.

So Darrell Issa introduced his own version of these bills, which is called OPEN. Rather than grant powers to the judicial department to go after copyright, it gives it to the International Trade Commission instead.

The media industry says the bill is too weak to be effective.



Honestly, the burden of proof needs to be high. And the punishment for reporting content as infringing when it is actually legal under Fair Use needs to be harsh, to the tune of a hefty monetary penalty for wasting taxpayer resources for a false investigation.

Yeah totally nuts, especially considering that there ARE users of that service who post their own material... yes, lots of stuff is pirated but seems a little heavy handed to shut paying customers off of a service without any proof they are using it for illegal means.

Crazy. Seriously, this stuff makes me hate the motion picture industry so much that I want to be sure they don't get a single cent from me.

Also lol at their totally bogus numbers. $500 million? Yeah, cause every person that downloaded a film would have paid 20 bucks to buy the DVD if it hadn't been available to pirate, amirite?

I'm really looking forward to hearing from content creators who used that site to promote their own material on this issue.

I mean this was just posted last month:



Edited, Jan 19th 2012 3:09pm by Olorinus

Wow, that is really messed up.

Out of curiosity though, if the site was set up in the UK and used non-American servers, how did they get a US web domain?

No idea, here's the article.

I don't know - something smells here. That's for sure. And you would think your government has better things to do that this. I mean crikes - look what the folks on wall street did - and they are laughing all the way to the bank.

He played gatekeeper to the content in a way. Torrents are kept in the cloud, as they say, so the content isn't really hosted by any one entity. What he did was provide a place where that content could be accessed.

The ad revenue is a base to show monetary gain, since ad revenue is generated by traffic and the site wasn't offering any other product or service.

One problem is that Hollywood has their hands deep in the government's pocket and because of that they have been given an excessive amount of leeway and power. The other problem is that Hollywood abuses that power for it's own personal gain with no thought to the fallout of the crap they push. Hollywood has already beat the hell out of free speech and fair use, SOPA and PIPA are really just extensions by which to enforce the DMCA.


MegaUpload is a perfect example. MU is a file hosting site, nothing more. They have no clue what is contained in the vast majority of files being hosted. But since some of those files are pirated material, they got taken down. What about all of the paying customers who have been using MU legitimately? Ignoring the fact that they have paid for a service that they are no longer getting, what happens to all of the content they had uploaded?

How many businesses use MU as a FTP service (25% of business traffic is to MU based on an article I recently read)? How many families use MU to store photo albums and home movies to share with friends and family? How many people use MU for file backup? How many of those people just lost everything because they thought storing everything online was the safe thing to do?