so... NOBODY wants to talk about SOPA or PIPA?

A bit long, but goes into much detail of how this will effect everyone worldwide -

wait we all should do this I COME IN PEACE OK... I SURRENDER

A lot of people sure are in an uproar about the possibility of these bills being passed. I don't know too much about SOPA or PIPA and the agenda behind all of it but reading this made me really worried about the future of the internet in general were these bills to pass...

A commentator wrote this at the bottom of this article :

The issue is not protection of copyright but the means advocated within these proposed laws. To translate this into a bricks and mortar analogy, these laws give copyright holders the ability to:

a. Command banks to stop processing that store's finances.
b. Command the city to barricade the store's door.
c. Command the map makers to remove that store from all maps.

That's an absurd way to punish a copyright violator and one that also destroy the credibility of maps and our confidence in information accuracy.

To make matters worse, any underground pirate site can simply change its name, jump to a different ISP and reappear within a few hours or less. If vigorously enforced, this will become a giant whack-a-mole game where RIAA and MPAA struggle to keep up with the constantly changing pirate site.

Finally, the US only has jurisdiction over the resources within this nation. There is no way to prevent networks in other nations from continuing to list the pirate site. Hence, those who wish to access the stolen information need only route their information requests through servers in another nation. Meanwhile, the entire Internet will need to deal with resolving conflicting information from different portions of the Internet. Simply put, this law will lead to a technological mess for little or no actual benefit to the copyright holders.

This just in

A commentator wrote this (about ppl taking the issue to the streets):

Good.

No matter what you think about intellectual property rights, it is important to realize: this bill tries to establish a few things.

1) Corporations can have ANY content removed from the web immediately and sometimes without recourse, judicial oversight or any other hearing at all, simply by filling out a form online. In the past, record companies and movie studios have shown blatant disregard for "fair use" laws as they submit blanket DMCA take-down orders against hundreds of pages at a time. This law only makes it easier and more difficult to fight.

2) This law imposes US laws against foreign countries. As someone who does not live in the US, I obviously oppose this. Copyrights do not last as long in Canada or Europe as they do in the US because sane people believe that the term of copyright that the US has imposed is long and stringent. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the "Happy Birthday" song are two of the most aggressively policed bits of copyrighted material, each costing upwards of $10 per "performance" to view. In most countries, such things cannot be copyrighted in such a blatant way. It is in direct opposition to the history and power of the US as a country to do these things.

3) This law imposes unreasonable restrictions on companies like Google, who may face criminal punishment for not censoring ALL of the nearly 1 trillion websites and 100 billion videos they serve, which is nigh impossible and will stifle innovation and progress.

I honestly think people are in denial about the USA right now. Everyone is all worried about SOPA and PIPA, yes they are a threat to our freedom of information, but it seems everyone is oblivious to the fact the National Deffense Authoratization Act has been passed by the Obama Administration on December 31st. This Bill can litterally detain LEGAL usa citizens without yet commiting a crime, but just posing a "threat." This could be falsely labelled protesters down to the average citizen. Coincidentally they are now calling for thousands of jobs at the FEMA camps. People have to realise what is unfolding before it is too late. If you don't believe me you can searh up exactly what NDAA and the FEMA camps are. This is not a conspiracy no longer, this is reality.

CrazyCanadian wrote: I honestly think people are in denial about the USA right now. Everyone is all worried about SOPA and PIPA, yes they are a threat to our freedom of information, but it seems everyone is oblivious to the fact the National Deffense Authoratization Act has been passed by the Obama Administration on December 31st. This Bill can litterally detain LEGAL usa citizens without yet commiting a crime, but just posing a "threat." This could be falsely labelled protesters down to the average citizen. Coincidentally they are now calling for thousands of jobs at the FEMA camps. People have to realise what is unfolding before it is too late. If you don't believe me you can searh up exactly what NDAA and the FEMA camps are. This is not a conspiracy no longer, this is reality.

SOPA, PIPA won't make it.

hahaha

Good news!

The Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as "SOPA," is losing friends fast, and now it looks like there's a good chance it'll lose the support it needs to make it out of Congress alive, much less the White House.

SOPA Shellacked, PIPA Plastered