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Might as well make a thread for this.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/us_house_downloading_torrents_while_pushing_sopa

I'm not from US, so my opinion should be merely analytic and thus rather fair, still I find this Sopa I've been reading a lot about lately simply ridiculous. Even tough I don't like piracy and always say bad about it, something like this could give them power and eventually grounds to censor access to sites like YouTube. Not to mention it goes totally against all that democracy and freedom speech you Americans emphasize so much..

First of all - SOPA is a good cover for a draconian internet censorship. Someone posts a music file on site, bam, it's closed. Too easy.
Second, MAFIAA, Sony etc etc. have insanely high profits each month, and yet they target school kids and sue their parents for like 100k bucks and more. They don't know mathematics ? Plain and simple, album costs 10 bucks, a song - 70 cents, where the f..ck a a 300+ thousand dollars here. 400k people downloaded their crap? Bullshit. It's just a typical "know your place, worm!" attitude. And there's no such thing as real democracy now. If you have some money, you can bribe a cop. If you have a lot of money - you can bribe a senator, if you have billions - you can just buy almost a whole government or even force laws worldwide.
We live in a cyberpunk world - large corporations rule the world through a marionette governments.

BTW speaking of a "piracy" term, forced by paid journalists - i really want to put all those ***AA guys on a boat near the coast of Somalia, so they will know what real piracy is

(12-28-2011, 02:22 PM)ShadowFlash Wrote: [ -> ]First of all - SOPA is a good cover for a draconian internet censorship. Someone posts a music file on site, bam, it's closed. Too easy.

or, you could doe like some film company did on youtube and get videos removed/closed even if it had nothing of copyrighted shit


EDIT: also, its better to actually sign a petition or going to high ups about this then making a poll

Lol who voted for?

Quote:or even force laws worldwide.

That's something America is already trying to do.

Quote:also, its better to actually sign a petition

I think he's just trying to check what opinions others have.

I did. SOPA=no more Biebers.

(12-28-2011, 07:10 PM)lamedude Wrote: [ -> ]I did. SOPA=no more Biebers.

you'll still see/hear him on TV/radio/etc

what you WILL miss is every parody and trolling of said rubbish

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNwvQXkYrY

We have a quite similar thing here in France What about you guys?

(12-28-2011, 11:26 PM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]We have a quite similar thing here in France What about you guys?

if youre talking about sopa, the difference is that the main dns server/routing server is located in america. so a law like SOPA could censor -ANYTHING- on the internet even if its not hosted in america

(12-29-2011, 12:35 AM)DacoTaco Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-28-2011, 11:26 PM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]We have a quite similar thing here in France What about you guys?

if youre talking about sopa, the difference is that the main dns server/routing server is located in america. so a law like SOPA could censor -ANYTHING- on the internet even if its not hosted in america

My god. In France we have HADOPI. You can read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law