SOPA. Should we be worried?

[SMOKEU]

Given the choice I'd still rather have the USA controlling the world than Islam.

[jasonu]

Given the choice I'd still rather have the USA controlling the world than Islam.

or the Chinese or the Indians.

[Brian d marge]

or the Chinese or the Indians.

was watching some Chinese video the other day, god damn gave me the horn, with their ching Chan chong talk .......
even with the tramp stamp.....

Stephen

[SMOKEU]

or the Chinese or the Indians.

Public asset sales to Chinese corporations.

[The Everlasting]

if you look at the law, Americas trying to give themselves world-wide legality. i.e. if someone mentions piratebay on here, a NZ site (as I just have) Americas trying to give themselves the ability to shutdown this site & fine everyone involved (owners & users alike) if they so wish, with no need for trial.

My understanding of what they're trying to pass into law is a world-wide American controlled internet censorship under the guise of "stopping piracy" & this is why we should be worried

That sounds really bad,something needs to be done about the USA! There are much bigger things to worry about in the world,than copyright....

[pete376403]

That sounds really bad,something needs to be done about the USA! There are much bigger things to worry about in the world,than copyright....

Not if you're Disney, Sony, News Corporation, etc.

[onearmedbandit]

I do wonder whether the wording of this law (and I have glanced through it) is done so not to prosecute every man, woman and child but rather to avoid being tripped up on some minor technicality by a smart defence lawyer. I know if I was after the bigger fish, who can afford said smart lawyer, I'd make sure the law was written so that mr baddy can't smile walking out of a court room by paying $500,000 in legal fees.

[Scuba_Steve]

Well some hobbyists have thought up their bypass to this censorship law

Penny Arcade on Piracy, not a bad piece

[Madness]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...ine-piracy-law

[pete376403]

British student faces extradition to US for running a website, TV SHACK, that provides links to other websites whereusers could access content, but did not provide any of the content itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-16544335

As his lawyer said, whats the difference between what he was doing and Google?

yep, we should start to be worried

http://www.tvshack.net

[mashman]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...ine-piracy-law

heh, the thing that leaps out at me from that "story", is the shift in economic focus. Where once upon a time copyright documents where all about the $$$ that was being lost, they're now about the jobs that are being affected. Fuckin funny. Would copyright exist if money didn't? No it wouldn't. Would the material still exist? Yes it would.

British student faces extradition to US for running a website, TV SHACK, that provides links to other websites whereusers could access content, but did not provide any of the content itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-16544335

As his lawyer said, whats the difference between what he was doing and Google?

yep, we should start to be worried

http://www.tvshack.net

poor fucker.

[Scuba_Steve]

http://www.tvshack.net

IT Crowd still have the best anti piracy ad

[mashman]

Wikipedia are protesting for a day today

[haydes55]

Why are governments wasting their time a shitload of their money and resources when they are in a shitload of debt. All to help make the rich richer. Sure piracy on paper costs the film industry millions every year. But they aren't losing much more than a few hundred thousand. I don't go to movies much, maybe once every 3 months. I watch pirated movies. If I had no access to pirated movies I would still go to the movies only once every 3 months (I never rent or buy DVD's either).

To prove that I haven't gone to the movies since about July last year, I have access to my flatmates external hard drives full of movies I have never seen, but I just haven't bothered. When I watch a Pirated movie, I was never going to spend any money to watch the movie anyway (whether I could get it free or had to pay).

The majority of people involved in making movies are very well off, many multi millionaires many in 6 figure careers. Maybe they are charging too much? Same goes for music. I have over 3000 songs, off CD's, friends and pirated (one paid for on itunes). If I bought them all off itunes, my ipod would be worth $3000. Why should I pay 10% of my annual income to listen to music, especially when that money is going to people so rich they buy a brand new Mayback (Jay Z and Kanye West - Otis) and destroy it for a video clip. These people are so rich they don't know what to do with the money, charging way to much, and crying to the government to make them more money. Fuck them, if this passes I call to boycott itunes for a month and then see them cry!

[Scuba_Steve]

Why are governments wasting their time a shitload of their money and resources when they are in a shitload of debt. All to help make the rich richer.

One of the problems with SOPA was it wasn't just copywrite protection (I'd call that the sheeps clothing) it was full on internet censorship (the wolf)