November 17 - end of the Internet as we know?

[Honesty]

It is no exaggeration.

 

The bills ProtectIP SOPA and tomorrow will be discussed at

the Congress of the United States, define the future of internet.

 

The promoters of this initiative - if parasites are dedicated to

squeeze every penny of patents and copyright, have invested

heavily to make it happen censorship via copyright.

 

SOPA not only affects the United States and that the proposal

is to block sites DNS level (not just staying in the United States)

that may infringe intellectual property rights (though only suppose)

or just penalize a provider or broker has not done enough to stop

these sites.

 

The DNS blocking technique is practiced by countries such as Syria

China and Iran. U.S. government finds it increasingly difficult to hide

its repressive side ...

 



 

Tomorrow will take place the final legislative session to decide the

future of the internet. The lobbies of the MPAA, RIAA and PHARMA

have invested heavily in promoting these garbage laws that affect

us each and every Internet user.

 

Electronic Frontier Foundation warns of the risks to freedom of

expression, internet security and innovation that poses the most

deranged SOPA PROTECTIP combination of the infrastructure of

the Internet and its users:

 

Under the rules of SOPA, service providers (including hosting)

will be renewed pressure to monitor and supervise the activities

of its users.

 

IP PROTECT focuses on sites "dedicated to infringing activities"

(intellectual property), SOPA threat to sites that simply are not

doing enough to track and monitor violations are not discussed

(and it is unclear to what extent). It also creates new powers

to stop people offering help to access the internet in the world

(not just the authorized version of the U.S.).

 

Just to give you an idea, people can go to jail for five years

by posting a video on YouTube, singing a sacred protected by

copyright.

 

So serious is the situation that Google, Facebook and Twitter

have teamed up to absolutely reject these bills that will

completely destroy the infrastructure of the global Internet

as well as make them police their users and lose protections

they now have.

 

But not only are in great danger, Vimeo, Soundcloud Etsy and

are also under threat from SOPA.

 

These laws destroyed all the exceptions in DMCA to make way

for an intellectual property protection (some) completely

extremist and authoritarian.

 

SOPA is an attempt to manipulate a human resource.

 

Legal scholars in the United States, who also oppose SOPA

indicate that this bad idea:

 

" It has many constitutional infirmezas addition to being

potentially dangerous for the stability and security of the

Internet addressing system will also affect the U.S. foreign

policy and support for freedom of expression on the

Internet worldwide. "

 



 

The more proactive if they wish can censor your site

tomorrow to celebrate the Day of American censorship.

 

It is very easy to participate and perhaps good exercise

to get used to without censorship as promoting intellectual

property.

 

Our government is starting to go overboard in protecting

intellectual property.

 

I would say the precipice.

 

"Good luck internet, need all."

 

 

Sources: Vint Cerf | http://en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/general-technology, Wokkonno | http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/showthread.php?t=992171

 

 

 

 

[Evilokami]

This wont pass.

It just cant.

Congress cant be this stupid.....

 

that's 1000's of jobs that will be gone. millions and millions in law suits. its just a giant cluster fuck of stupidity.

 

And even if you don't live in America and you think "oh this doesnt affect me" your wrong.

[Slammer64]

It'll never pass constitution muster here in the U.S.A. anyway.

[Mailamea]

US government found money, again lol. It wont pass to many ppl againts this.

[Honesty]

Actually this bill has a lot of supporters. And everyone is being pressured by the Copyright fools. Lots of money could be tied into this as well. Lots of pay-offs.

 

So it just might... who knows.. or they'll say, "look .. ok, we wont pass this one, but we'll make a almost-as-absurd bill and pass that one instead."

[Mailamea]

F*ck this if this gets passed, its worst than 2012. Imagine, you wake up first thing in your mind is to log on to steam with internet and play Skyrim, or check your facebook, next thing you see a huge BLOCKED sign appears.

[Sand_Dragon]

F*ck this if this gets passed' date=' its worst than 2012. Imagine, you wake up first thing in your mind is to log on to steam with internet and play Skyrim, or check your facebook, next thing you see a huge BLOCKED sign appears.

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Even if it does pass, it won't make it. President Obama said he was going to veto the bill if it landed on his desk.

 

President Bush said the same thing when they tried to do a similar bill some years ago, so maybe the presidents are on to something.

[reivzje]

I don't know why but this srsly reminds me of the USSR -.- with all this bullshit censorship

[gregathit]

Well sadly this current congres IS stupid enough to pass this!!!

 

The bad news, good news is that if they did pass it, it would almost certainly be overturned by the supreme court as unconstitutional.

[Jerbsinator]

It's because Republicans are the stupidest fucking people on the face of this planet. I mean for Gods sake they think if you're unemployed that you deserve to die. I don't know if republicans proposed this bill...but it's just stupid enough that I will assume that they did. This infringes on the Constitution on an unbelievable level.

[gregathit]

Jerb, the difference between republicans and democrats is NIL. Both parties are filled with the most stupid, selfish pricks the USA can find. Creme rises to the top after all

 

 

EDIT:

Bill sponsors are:

Patrick Leahy - Democrat

Lamar Smith - Republican

John Conyers - Democrat

 

[EvenstarGW]

All this talk of soup makes me hungry.

 

Seriously though, it's counter productive and they've got their heads up their ass if they don't see that. Free sharing of files gives them popularity. I'm pretty sure that a song that people can freely listen to on youtube will on average be a lot more popular than one which is censored, blocked or removed as soon as it's been posted. Sure, the music industry may have seen loss of cd sales. But they've never seemed to look at themselves for the cause of that. Have you seen what happened to the prices since it became so easy to copy them? All in all, I'm pretty sure the entertainment industry has only grown in that time, so there's apparently plenty of clever people out there that know how to make money out of it somewhere. But since there's a few egotistical maniacs that think their past fortune should be a guarantee for the future, they think they can stop time and progress alltogether. It's idiotic. People are perfectly willing to part with their money, but they're usually more inclined to give it to those that also give freely than to those that hoard it at all costs. So adapt or go the way of the dinosaur.

[tomfoolery]

So... did this pass? I'm guessing not, but I don't know. To be honest, I've been playing Skyrim pretty much all week. Like, seriously, this past week for me has beed eat, sleep, Skyrim. With the occasional talk with friends.

[AC2]

no i don't think it passed...apparently the backlash of americans has stopped it from acception. Not to say though that it will not pass eventually. Very stupid bill. America is in trouble.

[Guest]

no i don't think it passed...apparently the backlash of americans has stopped it from acception. Not to say though that it will not pass eventually. Very stupid bill. America is in trouble.

 

Faith for America, +1!

[Honesty]

 

 

Faith for America' date=' +1!

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Yeah .. +1 .. so that brings us to about "-99" (instead of -100) : /

 

 

[NexusCron]

Honest Question..if it does pass, Won't all hell break loose? Litteraly? Riots in thre streets, ect, from raging pissed off people? I dunno. My gut tells me that this bill is the government asking for someone to waltz in and just go rambo on them. The stupidity here is...mind boggling. I can't even think about it, its too horrifying. Why were these people even born?

[Warfriends]

Honest Question..if it does pass' date=' Won't all hell break loose? Litteraly? Riots in thre streets, ect, from raging pissed off people? I dunno. My gut tells me that this bill is the government asking for someone to waltz in and just go rambo on them. The stupidity here is...mind boggling. I can't even think about it, its too horrifying. Why were these people even born?

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Dunno, but apparently human reproduction/dna are assholes to the next generation.

[NexusCron]

I noticed that, is it bad that I thoroughly believe that signing this bill into exsistance is just asking to get those dems and reps that signed it in to be shot, stabbed, and then have someone do highly inappropriate and indescribable things to their corpses?

[Guest Donkey]

I read this part, then got to thinking.. Who are more stupid.. The once who are inventing these useless rules.. Or the once voting for them So they can invent these stupid rulezzz ..

 

I would much rather they bann all politics.. The world would defenantly be a better place..

[labrat]

@Donkey

 

Belgium has just completed 18 months without a government , a period of unprecedented growth and stability. But the international finance community is trying to end this "dangerous and unpredictable experiment" by announcing that Belgium's "credit rating" is to be revised down.

 

 

[leddis3]

They are contemptable, but their motivations are clear enough, big money from big corporate sponsors who despise the internet and it's ability to distribute free anything, and want to lock it down and control it all to make even more money.

[xartom]

The House might clear SOPA. Ugh, it'd be nice if all the major social media sites as well as Google replaced their services with a lone page decrying this bill for a day. I doubt they'd risk a day of service and profit though. Better yet, SOPA gets declared unconstitutional (which it is) at some point.

[Evilokami]

I would love to come in here and say again "oh it can never pass" but after I watched almost the whole meeting yesterday. These old pieces of shit are so paid off and bribed it's really sad.

 

They had almost no idea what they were talking about. They were just reading what was written on the piece of paper infront of them. And everyone that tried to talk against it just blown off.

 

 

"Pirating costs millions of dollars and thousands of jobs"

Really? cause I can go to a few message boards where people say they pirated TONS of games. and they said they liked them so much they bought them. (showed their steam account to prove it).

 

And movies. Well honestly i don't even want to watch let alone pay for half the crap that comes out now.

[tomfoolery]

Well, some good news at least. The vote has been delayed by a month now that they've FINALLY decided to let experts way in on the matter. Mainly cybersecurity experts, but still.

 

Not much, but it's something at least. Hopefully when they point out the absurdity of trying to censor everything they think is copyright infringement, the House will back off. Hopefully. Money does speak louder than facts after all, sadly.