SOPA/Protect IP act.

[VectorVictor]

Found a state with a somebody pro SOPA: http://sopatrack.com...rep-lamar-smith

 

edit: just looked him up. HES THE SCUM WHO CREATED IT?!

 

What do you expect, he's from Texas...

 

And check this tweet out--apparently he's postponed a hearing on SOPA, how sweet...

 

https://twitter.com/...379286015062017

 

And if SOPA/PIPA actually get through expect this site to be taken down sooner or later for this post.

 

Your post?

 

F***, all of us most of us are using copyrighted images as their avatar. That alone would be enough to blacklist HuskerMax, HuskerBoard...hell, any message board that allows avatars or image posting (because a lot of those internet memes we like to post are unapproved, copyrighted images that have been manipulated).

[VectorVictor]

SOPA and PIPA appear to be shelved indefinetely...

 

http://kotaku.com/5877882/adios-sopa-house-shelves-bill-indefinitely

[krill]

As an IT professional, and someone who in past has pirated an awful lot of crap but changed his ways, I find many troubling dynamics to the piracy issue with no easy solution.

 

1. I really believe this needs to be the first consideration, that file hosting services like megaupload, rapidshare, etc. knowingly host content that is 95%+ pirated, and make a tidy sum from advertising and premium accounts in the process. The same is true of usenet providers, which although not many people understand or know about it since it's a relic of the past retrofited for a new purpose, all it is now is piracy. Public torrent sites also make a tidy sum advertising while of course hosting no actual content.

 

2. The music and film industry did screw themselves by not adapting to consumption changes, instead choosing to go into attack mode. They had an opportunity to sell more than ever before using digital distribution that was practically free, and easy (people like easy), and superior to the ad hoc systems of piracy, but they refused until a whole generation had grown up downloading illegally. Now the RIAA and MPAA are now household names that are hugely unpopular with young people.

 

3. Expansion of law enforcement power and forcing unrealistic burdens onto network managment, and anyone operating a website. It's hard to explain but you can't just block out a website with the touch of a button by taking it off the root name servers. It's like trying to unlist a public phone number that's printed in hundreds of thousands phone books (well years ago when we used phone books). Screwing with the DNS system will just make the internet less functional for the average user and probably lead to global resentment over US control over ICANN, which would only hamper other efforts. And holding website operators responsible for all the content posted by users is like saying...well, there are illegal guns in NYC, so if anyone committs a murder with a gun in NYC, the whole city will be shut down to take away everyone's guns. The whole thing just stinks.

[Sub-Husker]

I'm not a reader of Huff & Puff Post, but I followed a link to this article about Bernie Sanders:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/we-the-people_b_1219573.html?ref=yahoo&ir=Yahoo

 

If you are concerned about the collapse of the middle class, you should be concerned about how American campaigns are financed. If you wonder why the United States is the only country in the industrialized world not to have a national health care program, if you're asking why we pay the highest price in the world for prescription drugs, or why we spend more money on the military than the rest of the world combined, you are talking about campaign finance. You are talking about the unbelievable power that big-money interests have over every legislative decision.

[redblooded]

 

Piratebay makes a good point.

[husker_99]

Head of the MPAA, Chris Dodd, just threaten the President because he paid him off and i guess he took the money and reversed his decision.

[VectorVictor]

Head of the MPAA, Chris Dodd, just threaten the President because he paid him off and i guess he took the money and reversed his decision.

 

It's because Chris Dodd doesn't get that public sentiment is vehemently opposed to this, and because the public (well, most of it) isn't stupid enough to fall for his job loss and profit loss rhetoric.

 

And considering Dodd is using the same accountants that Hollywood uses to ensure that the last Harry Potter move wasn't profitable or that Star Wars: Return of the Jedi *still* hasn't technically turned a profit. And Jedi is the 15th biggest grossing movie of all time.

 

Thankfully, 'Hollywood Accounting' is getting its day in court and losing big time. The Harry Potter article I linked shows how both Don Johnson and Celador (who owns "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" sued and won in court, big time. It stands to reason that Dodd is using the same accounting tricks to grossly overstate the impact of piracy on job and profit loss.

 

On a related note, it appears that famed Techie and Trekie Wil Wheaton is not too timid to call Dodd and Hollywood out. Wheaton even goes so far to illustrate how Hollywood is using Government as a shillelagh to beat back change in their industry and how piracy succeeds because they simply provide better customer service.

[Lil' Red]

Sounds like ACTA poses a lot of the same problems SOPA/PIPA did.

 

https://www.eff.org/issues/acta

[Sub-Husker]

The freedom-hating trolls are still at it...

 

Sounds like ACTA poses a lot of the same problems SOPA/PIPA did.

 

https://www.eff.org/issues/acta

 

Opponents of the agreement however brand it as an attack on civil liberties, which was prepared in secret by non-elected officials, bypassing public control. The exact wording of the document was never revealed, but according to leaked info, ACTA may result in a gross violation of human rights, activists warn. Those could include border searches of digital devices like music players and laptops for pirated content, policing of user activity by internet service providers, and even bans on generic drugs. There is fear that the national governments ratifying the bill will also be obliged to criminalize acts like putting links to pirated content, and to extradite offenders to be tried by the country of the copyright holder. The somewhat similar SOPA/PIPA bills in the US caused worldwide demonstrations and a B****** by some of the world’s most-visited websites earlier in January. The protests resulted in the shelving of the controversial legislation.

 

http://rt.com/news/poland-acta-protest-anonymous-823/

 

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Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit.

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57366443-281/hawaii-may-keep-track-of-all-web-sites-visited/

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Saw a video explaining ACTA...it amazes me how some of these bills can get sent up like they have. I mean, what kind of moronic politician would believe that the rights of a certain "special interest group" trump the rights of the nation's citizens?

 

They realize that if ACTA goes through, research will stop. We will not progress as a nation.

[redblooded]

Saw a video explaining ACTA...it amazes me how some of these bills can get sent up like they have. I mean, what kind of moronic politician would believe that the rights of a certain "special interest group" trump the rights of the nation's citizens?

 

They realize that if ACTA goes through, research will stop. We will not progress as a nation.

 

ACTA isn't a bill though, it's a treaty they are trying to get passed under the radar. Although yes, the people in power are still beholden to things like the RIAA and MPAA, through campaign money, just look at the dodd quote about how all the people that backed out of sopa and pipa didn't do what they were bought for. The content and (bad) software industry think they can sue and legislate their way back into screwing over the artistic people they employ for huge profits... so they spend all their money on influence rather then adapting to changing times 15 years after they already changed.

 

We need a new napster to just deathblow those a-holes.

[Sub-Husker]

Before the American people were protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, the president managed to sign an international treaty which would permit foreign companies to demand that ISPs (Internet Service Providers) remove web content in the United States without any legal oversight. Entitled the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the treaty was signed by Obama on October 1, 2011, but it is currently a subject of discussion because the White House is circulating a petition demanding that senators ratify the treaty.

 

What’s worse is that the White House has done some maneuvering — characterizing the treaty as an "executive agreement" — thereby bypassing approval by members of Congress. Concerned by this action of the administration, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore., above left) sent a letter to President Obama in which he declared:

 

It may be possible for the U.S. to implement ACTA or any other trade agreement, once validly entered, without legislation if the agreement requires no change in U.S. law. But regardless of whether the agreement requires changes in U.S. law ... the executive branch lacks constitutional authority to enter a binding international agreement covering issues delegated by the Constitution to Congress' authority, absent congressional approval.

 

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/10685-obama-tries-to-bypass-congress-with-deadly-global-internet-treaty-acta

[Sub-Husker]

Anonymous calls for anti-ACTA rallies, Poland suspends bill

 

http://rt.com/news/a...den-poland-491/

[redblooded]

If europe was smart, which they haven't been since we plundered germany's scientists, they's simply tell us to go screw ourselves on this and go write some even more lax copyright and IP laws. Then watch the tech industry innovation flow over to them over the next 10 years which would kill the US since manufacturing is all overseas.

[Sub-Husker]

ACTA: Global Takeover Of The Internet

 

http://therealnews.c...&video_id=72977