SOPA: Your Opinion?

[Inchante]

This is the thing, this is not the Artists who are doing this crap, its the Big Corporations who are doing it.

Oh, I agree, which is why I said the industry needs to be reformed, but it is also true that you end up stealing from the artist as well as the big corporations when you illegally download the music.

There has to be a way to reform the industry without hurting the artists. That is what we should look for.

[SleepTalker]

This bill is BULL. i mean come on... this is just another way for the government to stick their noses in other peoples business.

[pellaz]

PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bill:

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[OLtO4stO4]

This would be a communist style of government. "You will watch what we LET you watch! And NO FREE THINKING! SIG HEIL!"

[James]

Unfortunate that it is so broadly worded that if anysite has a insignificate glich, the whole site is taken down, I already e-mailed my representitives to vote no on this bill, Jim

[Inchante]

resume business as usual

Well, not quite dead, but a rather significant blow.

[Genersis]

Not a fan of it.
At all.



Not exaggeration/dramatisation free, but this video sums it up well enough i think.

[blokeinsussex]

Megaupload was just taken offline

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-r...fringement

In addition, the following alleged members of the Mega conspiracy were charged in the indictment:

Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann, and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the United States. Bencko, Echternach, and Nomm remain at large. Today, law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets, and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands, and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.

Team America: Internet Police

[Rainbowmum]

This is going to change the internet as we know it.
Censorship of any kind is the loss of freedom.

[blokeinsussex]

Anonymous are now DDOS'ing justice.gov in an apparent retaliation.