SOPA

[ExtremeDude2]

ESA finally drops SOPA/PIPA support

http://www.screwattack.com/news/esa-finally-drops-sopapipa-support

[Lectrode]

(01-22-2012, 12:52 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: ESA finally drops SOPA/PIPA support
http://www.screwattack.com/news/esa-finally-drops-sopapipa-support

More info on background of SOPA & PIPA (TED Talks)




*a new challenger approaches!*

sorry, had to make a pokemon reference

On a more serious note, a "trade agreement" (ACTA) takes SOPA and PIPA to the next level (worse) and on a GLOBAL scale:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

EDIT:
Haven't looked too much into it, and according to some, it's already been signed and is set to go into effect at some point.

EDIT2:
Dang this is old. This next video was uploaded in 2009, so this has been going on for a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82IFC27KAJo

EDIT3: According to Wikipedia, it was signed on October 1, 2011 by these countries:
United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea

It's open for more signatures until March 31, 2013. I'm not sure when it will go into effect, or if
it already has, but they did a damn good job of hiding this from the general public


Also according to Wikipedia, the actual text of the agreement was withheld from the general
public due to being material "properly classified in the interest of national security."

[DacoTaco]

(01-22-2012, 02:15 PM)Lectrode Wrote: but they did a damn good job of hiding this from the general public

no shit

[ExtremeDude2]

Heh heh, looks like megaupload doesn't want to die (no uploads tho from what I can tell ) (also could be fake vv so don't blame me for clicking on it )

http://109.236.83.66/

[LordVador]

Don't know if other hosts will be shot. Which one are you gonna choose?

[ExtremeDude2]

Mediafire

[giorgakis132]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/21/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom-by-the-numbers

... o_O

[James333]

(01-23-2012, 12:11 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Heh heh, looks like megaupload doesn't want to die (no uploads tho from what I can tell ) (also could be fake vv so don't blame me for clicking on it )

http://109.236.83.66/

It gives all the signs of being fake , before the page had the background images from megaupload, but since they were being copied from the old remains from megaupload they are not loading anymore, and actually the site can also be accessed from the url http://satuno.net/. If it was megaupload I would expect them to at least give a more serious message, this guys did not even write phishing correctly

Long story short , do not go in xD

[Lectrode]

2 related articles:

SOPA and PIPA are (almost) dead. Now can we talk about the law that already exists?


This should not be allowed to happen:
Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details...



Reading these news articles makes me want to leave this country... but then I have no idea where I'd go or how I'd get there.

[Starscream]

Just a little thing I found ironic: I found it kind of funny that the only thing some websites could do to protest SOPA from shutting down their sites was for those sites to close themselves down. I guess that would be like finding someone who wanted to kill you and you not liking it, then in protest you just kill yourself. Nice job!

Don't get me wrong, I understand what it was done for, but it's still amusing to me.