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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #60 on: January 20, 2012, 05:58:24 pm »
Quote from: ruler501 on January 20, 2012, 05:54:33 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on January 20, 2012, 05:50:29 pm
Quote from: ruler501 on January 20, 2012, 05:48:50 pm
Looking around it appears to me that SOPA/PIPA are dead(or as wikipedia says: hiding). the blackouts appear to have worked :D there is now OPEN which i havent looked much into so I cant say anything about it. Anyone know if this new one is as bad as SOPA/PIPA?

IDK much about OPEN, but if its like SOPA/PIPA in any way, we should be wary. ;)
From what I've seen so far it is like SOPA/PIPA but with a little more beuracracy I'm sorry if I'm wrong but thats what I get from quickly reading over a descripition

 i think you're right, was just doing some research myself. I take reddit's stance: "Its a good start."
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #61 on: January 20, 2012, 09:47:51 pm »
I still wont approve any DNS/IP filtering for searching. I'd also really like for them not to censor search engines either. I'd say making sites that break US Federal laws not be allowed to use paypal and like services that are under US jurisdiction.

EDIT: I've been reading about it and I'm happy to say that PIPA and SOPA have been pulled and that OPEN only makes payment companies and advertising companies stop working with sites with limited function outside of piracy includes takedown notices and all around is much better
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #62 on: January 20, 2012, 10:50:04 pm »
Well if both SOPA and PIPA are dead, then that's good. Now to see if they're gonna sneak in another bill in response to that...
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #63 on: January 20, 2012, 10:51:07 pm »
Just wondering, when is the bar over Omnimaga gonna be taken down?
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #64 on: January 20, 2012, 10:53:51 pm »
Pretty soon I guess. There's still this Megaupload thing floating around, plus I think SOPA and PIPA aren't definitively dead yet...
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #65 on: January 20, 2012, 11:01:08 pm »
Quote from: Juju on January 20, 2012, 10:53:51 pm
Pretty soon I guess. There's still this Megaupload thing floating around, plus I think SOPA and PIPA aren't definitively dead yet...
SOPA has been pulled from the house and PIPA's vote was canceled. SOPA is dead PIPA not quite but pretty close. I hope Megaupload gets out of the lawsuit. I think the DMCA should have helped protect them from this. The justice department is being way too hard on them.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #66 on: January 20, 2012, 11:03:48 pm »
That said, I think the SOPA/PIPA stuff were running for like 4 years, right? 4 years ago, I remember forum topics and Youtube videos about potential Internet censorship attempt by US government. I forgot what was the exact name of it, though, but this has been a threat for over 4 years now.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #67 on: January 20, 2012, 11:30:26 pm »
The SOPA and PIPA are pretty recent, but I guess the fears of censorship were there since a while, since the US have all the powers over the Internet andd they can do whatever they want and also what happened in other countries such as China and Egypt.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #68 on: January 20, 2012, 11:42:52 pm »
Oh right there was that too: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4349 (ACTA)

But I'm sure I remember something else in 2008 too where they wanted to throttle the speed of sites like Omni or download sites and make company sites like Youtube or Microsoft and governmental ones faster.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #69 on: January 21, 2012, 12:12:07 am »
Quote from: DJ_O on January 20, 2012, 11:03:48 pm
That said, I think the SOPA/PIPA stuff were running for like 4 years, right? 4 years ago, I remember forum topics and Youtube videos about potential Internet censorship attempt by US government. I forgot what was the exact name of it, though, but this has been a threat for over 4 years now.
Most of the older censorship concerns were over tiered internet which is different. It is giving sites the opportunity to pay to be at full speed or stay at a lower speed
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #70 on: January 21, 2012, 12:16:46 am »
Oh right, that's it I think. It was basically something that favored big companies at the expense of sharing sites or sites like Omni.

Heck I already have an hard time getting traffic for my music album. I think my Bandcamp site gets around 5-25 unique visits per day max, so imagine if it was incredibly slow to load.

Also I saw this on Facebook:


Too short, IMHO, though. The best way would be to stop buying anything like that during an entire financial quarter.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #71 on: January 21, 2012, 01:17:02 am »
^I'm down with that statement :D

Let's do it!
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #72 on: January 21, 2012, 05:37:55 pm »
I saw this when starting minecraft. Look at the yellow text. I checked it with google translate, but unfortunately it isn't true.
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #73 on: January 21, 2012, 11:51:30 pm »
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Re: SOPA/PIPA blackout
« Reply #74 on: January 22, 2012, 12:27:08 am »
Well, Google Translate isn't reliable. And Notch is Swedish, so I guess he knows what he's saying.
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