Internet giants consider blackout to protest SOPA
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Doing some ammo research, I found some forums participating
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Here is a pretty sound movement to get behind if you think that politician are too busy lining their pockets, dollars vote with your dollars, well someone elses...
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/stand-together-the-gaming-community-vs-sopa-and-pipa
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-esa-petition-and-boycott-e3
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/stand-together-the-gaming-community-vs-sopa-and-pipa
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-esa-petition-and-boycott-e3
SOPA Whinery is what I call it. People act like the internet is theirs for the taking, the last frontier of freedumb. They want to be able to steal or do/say whatever they want without any consequences. These web blackouts are stupid and I won't go to their sites anymore if they black out. Another wantobe cultXtreme occupy hippy movement is all it is. The internet is no different then being on an public street, rules and regulation must still apply and no you're not special because you have a blog. 
SOPA Whinery is what I call it. People act like the internet is theirs for the taking, the last frontier of freedumb. They want to be able to steal or do/say whatever they want without any consequences. These web blackouts are stupid and I won't go to their sites anymore if they black out. Another wantobe cultXtreme occupy hippy movement is all it is. The internet is no different then being on an public street, rules and regulation must still apply and no you're not special because you have a blog.
Pathetic.. Go crawl back into your hole.
SOPA Whinery is what I call it. People act like the internet is theirs for the taking, the last frontier of freedumb. They want to be able to steal or do/say whatever they want without any consequences. These web blackouts are stupid and I won't go to their sites anymore if they black out. Another wantobe cultXtreme occupy hippy movement is all it is. The internet is no different then being on an public street, rules and regulation must still apply and no you're not special because you have a blog.
I think you negate to see that the fastest growing most solvent companies(GOOGLE, Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, etc), they sell nothing, they own lots of patents but ironically most of their "products" if you must call them that are open source. Chrome and Android??? How we use and view IP has to change not so much for the internet to survive as for business to continue to evolve. Companies like apple, microsoft, and every other major IP holding publisher/producer is upset because they aren't really relevant in the same way they used to be. Its not so much that content creators won't continue to be key as who pays their checks is about to change and the notion of owning what you create, if it breaks down into ones and zeroes, will basically give way to the reality.
IP is basically information and the internet started the information renascence. It did more than connect and aggregate consumers it allowed them to share!
College level educations can practically be had for free from watching web seminars, you can learn how to do anything from youtube tutorials, I've tought myself probably more than half my current skills from videos and forums. The barrier to knowledge has been lowered for the first time since the invention of the printing press.
These Laws threaten all that.
It won't save anything, how does it really fix the issue of piracy??? It doesn't it is at best a foil for piracy but it is more than that to what the internet has become or could be for america. This law might pass and it might stop a few downloads here and there. It definitely wont' create any jobs outside regulation/enforcement of the law. What this law will do is be the arrow in the knee that Americas economy, not gonna kill us but we will never ever recover from it.
Regulating the internet on any level is tantamount to censorship at best and at worst and outright attack on individualism and the foundation of western society. If you applied the principles of these laws to the tangible world our IP landscape wouldn't exist pop culture would never materialize into anything relevant as it couldn't even be referenced without fear of reprisal. This is punishment without trial by what is essentially a non government entity, secret police of the internet... there is no historical president for something like this that appears favorably. Nazism, communism, socialism, Stalinism, all proud pioneers of this sort of law and enforcement.
Well said, and by far the best use of an arrow to the knee that I've ever heard. As for stopping piracy, that will never happen. If you're able to prevent one method used then another will be created. From dubbing tapes to burning cd's/dvd's to napster, kazaa, limewire, and other P2P programs to bittorrents. All of these have been very prominent forms of piracy at one point in time, and as regulations and techniques are used to deter one form from occurring then something new pops up. The pirates always have been, and always will be one step ahead.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-v...ebsites-strike-to-protest-online-piracy-bills I saw this post on another site but it was good info for this
I did my part and called and tweeted to the right people my opposition. It only takes a few minutes... DO IT>
