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Post by swoop on Nov 25, 2011 18:13:03 GMT -4
You are all aware of my homepage in Deviant Art of the situation. fav.me/d4gnqi0Here is a better description of it fav.me/d4gq9j6It has talked several websites the Protect IP bill aka S.O.P.A (STOP, ONLINE, PIRATING, ACT) for good reason. The act allows the entertainment industry to sue anyone that uses clips images music from them. This endangers freedom and stability for everyone. Here information about it. vimeo.com/31100268The entertainment had time that helped the economy so did muck raiders. There are time when it had good this is not one of them. Pirates will find a way out of this and may gain more profit from this. As we know the last bans in US have result in massive tragedies The 18th amendment prohibiting alcohol the drug war. Are bound to repeat it again? Here more information americancensorship.org/
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Post by Hunter on Nov 25, 2011 20:51:10 GMT -4
Yeah, I've heard of this. Stupid, immoral, and COMPLETELY USELESS. The bill only affects domain names, not IP addresses. So you can either get the IP address directly by word of mouth, which modern social networking totally makes possible, or you can use any of the countless workarounds to restore DNS service to those names. (Foreign proxy server, foreign DNS server, local DNS server, modified HOSTS file, and the list goes on.)
If those who would give up liberty for security should be condemned, how much more should we condemn those who would give up liberty for no benefit at all?
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Post by Agai Lazen on Nov 26, 2011 16:03:01 GMT -4
It's times like this where I go on really long walks. I go see the places that have been viewed as beautiful in the past.
Now all I can say is "Look at all the shades of grey!"
That is basically what is happening to America on all fronts. Architecture, economy, art, culture, academics, even the military that's been sucking up our resources and money ever since the cold war proclaiming to fight for our freedom without actually offering freedom.
Here's to mediocrity!
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Post by swoop on Nov 26, 2011 19:54:07 GMT -4
I am man that craves structure and stability, but this seems like it will destroy us and 20 years to return back to normal if it does. Just to ask this site to participate they are asking of urls. I know we are merely remnants fan club but it seems like we are at stake, or should I use my deviant art webpage?
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Post by swoop on Dec 16, 2011 20:28:29 GMT -4
well the day comes soon best to watch your favorite videos one more time. I called out the sources are from. A question to ask is there a need of censorship? The answer is yes, that is why there is are you sure you want to click on this for mature pages. that is subject that needs to be postponed as this deals with piracy
This said that it will cause endangerment to the entertainment industry. TV and ripoff movies have done their share. We can question the entertainment industry but that would be too easy. I think it would actually help it the internet has aided it already such as making memes on entertainment . We can easily name a few. Well if we are to go it was fun while it lasted. I may as well use this to say a few more things left kept quiet since time draws near.
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Post by swoop on Dec 30, 2011 18:29:47 GMT -4
WARNING! the debate of Sopa has now have been made into a war. I have said before that could cause dire ramifications by this law. I am afraid that the worst will come. Anonymous has now started attacking SONY and anyone else who supports it. THIS IS NOT A JOKE Please take careful consideration before replying. It can endanger you. I do not support SOPA but I had hoped we can solved this rationally. If you are going give phone call your Government Representative Please state your opinion calmly and be carful from both sides
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Post by swoop on Jan 14, 2012 20:05:36 GMT -4
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Post by Agai Lazen on Jan 14, 2012 23:14:10 GMT -4
I'm sorry, but come again? You do realize that lawyers, ignorant politicians, and greedy corporations will kick sites like this into hell if SOPA gets passed, right? Like CR stated, it's not about whether copyright infringement is right or wrong, our protest to it is about the means to getting it done. Similarly to NDAA; we don't want terrorists blowing up national monuments and killing millions of people, we just don't want our government to do that for them either, but I digress. I think what you're trying to say is that you support what SOPA and Protect IP are trying to do as opposed to what they will do. as for anonymouse they altered their plan their method with Sony which i have no idea what they will do but it is more aimed at them. What would be more direct, nuking the Sony building!? Also, I do think that Anonymous was right in the last note: suppression only leads to overwhelming opposition. It has happened several times throughout human history, and it will keep on going until either humanity is extinct, or until a leader that truly represents the interests of the people is put into power.
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Post by swoop on Jan 15, 2012 0:18:25 GMT -4
I really need check my grammar better. Statements like that could kill me. Sorry about that, again. I forgot to add the word not. I am not changing my opinion as you know I am against SOPA. Their wording for it is terrible and dangerous. Yes I am one to talk and that why it is difficult for me to communicate. corporations , greedy or otherwise, should be against SOPA. Consumers show their products and reception show what needs to be improve and what is great of the product. Lawyers should be against it as well because corrupt and buggy wording known be hazardous and further evidence aides them for other cases. As for what to expect from annonymous they are highly skilled hackers that have ambiguous moral code. Information about them is scarce as they are vigilantes. Thank goodness I can give links yes this is the lazy approach for explaining them. penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/anonymousNow I have to fix my previous statement Thanks Agai
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Post by Agai Lazen on Jan 15, 2012 0:27:16 GMT -4
I think Anonymous exitsing is both a good and bad thing. It's a good thing because an entire organization existing solely to execute the interests of the people tells the government that's supposed to do this that they screwed something up. It's a bad thing because they're more likely to just ignore the interests of the people entirely and just consider them a terrorist organization even though they're made up of US citizens and even some ex-soldiers. (They tend to do that.)
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Post by Agai Lazen on Jan 15, 2012 0:34:58 GMT -4
BTW: Oprah Winfrey got trolled by Anonymous, and she made a dumbass of herself on live television! XD
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Post by swoop on Jan 16, 2012 19:28:01 GMT -4
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Post by swoop on Jan 19, 2012 17:04:04 GMT -4
two more videos to show by the way as already know many tv news station are with SOPA. Anyone saw their commercials. I use to laugh at this act thinking that this will not pass and someone with any reason would not accept it. The president is against it but that is not enough. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc&feature=g-logo&context=G2bb67abFOAAAAAAAAAA [/youtube]
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Post by Agai Lazen on Jan 21, 2012 0:29:29 GMT -4
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Post by Hunter on Jan 21, 2012 4:53:11 GMT -4
Meh. Butthurt pirate is butthurt.
Regardless of one's opinion with respect to the morality of intellectual property laws, the U.S. government has always had a constitutional mandate to create and enforce such laws. (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, if you're interested.) And by those laws, uploading copyrighted material to the Internet without the copyright holder's permission is obviously a Bad Thing, modulo fair use. The question is, and always has been, what to do with dual-use services that can be used for both legitimate and infringing purposes. Originally, the Internet was governed by 1984's Sony v. Universal, which said that as long as there was the potential for a legitimate use, the service provider was off the hook. The problem with that logic in the digital age is that Napster can control what's hosted by its servers a lot more easily than Sony could control what was being recorded with its VCRs. So we got the DMCA, which, while draconian in its restrictions of anti-DRM tools (but that's another story), was fairly evenhanded toward hosting services. Sure, they could be held liable for infringing content, but as long as they made a good faith effort to keep such content off their networks, they were untouchable under the so-called "safe harbor" provision. One of the many problems with SOPA/PIPA is that it would effectively strip service providers of this protection, allowing copyright holders to shut down every site that hosts or even links to infringing content without the goddamn common courtesy to give them a reacharound... I mean workaround.
So where does Megaupload fit into this whole story? Well, what los federales are alleging is that the site failed to live up to its obligations under the safe harbor rule. Among other things they claim that the site's staff, which they awesomely call the "Mega Conspiracy", knowingly hosted pirated works without doing anything about them (bad), encouraged users to upload pirated works in order to drum up traffic (also bad), and did not actually delete pirated works when hit with a C&D (also also bad). If these allegations pan out, the Mega Conspiracy will be held as culpable as any other software pirate, and rightly so in my opinion. Does it suck for all the people who used Megaupload for legitimate ends, ignorant or perhaps just heedless of its shady practices? Sure. But there are dozens of other file-sharing services out there, and if you've only been using the one all this time I reserve the right to call you an idiot. Websites can go down for any number of reasons (bankruptcy, hackers, terrorists,... meteors?), so redundancy is just common sense. And honestly, who uses any of these sites except to flout copyright? Seriously, raise your hand. Now put it down, you liar.
As for Bradley Manning, well, the wheels of justice turn slowly when they turn at all. O.J. Simpson: arrested June 17, 1994, indicted July 7, trial started January 25, 1995. And that's with lawyers for both sides working around the clock to give the man a speedy trial. More recently, Casey Anthony: first arrested July 16, 2008, arraigned October 14, trial started May 24, 2011!
As for the Occupy Whatever hippies, they're cute, really. They think they're people. And they're learning an important lesson about politics: if you want to play the game, you have to play by the rules -- or else you get a faceful of pepper spray. Don't get me wrong, the corruption and oppression they're protesting are real, but they're also inevitable and, in this country at least, strangely harmless. Everyone knows the system is messed up, but most of the people on the bottom don't care enough to revolt, and most of the people on the top don't care enough to abuse their power except on the few who get out of line. It's a very self-aware and indifferent form of tyranny, like if hipsters wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. ("'Concentration camps were too mainstream,' O'Brien said between sips of PBR.")
As for The Amazing Atheist (TM) himself, if anyone from DHS is monitoring this website, first of all, start posting more, and second of all, if you do ever want to ship him off to GTMO... hey, more power to you. I should be against it on principle, but I think I can let it slide in this case. Just, uh, try to keep him in one piece so you don't have to deal with the bitchy e-mails from Amnesty International.
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