Copyright treaty aims to kill online filesharing

[Rumckle]

That sounds brilliant! You mean I would be able to lodge thousands of complaints of copyright violation a day against any company or person who annoys me and without trial or supporting evidence they will have to go through the rigmarole of trying to get it sorted out before their ISP blocks them?
This sounds like the most fun law ever.

Oh don't worry, I'm sure that some provision will be passed in the law so that only major corporations can file the complaints. Otherwise anyone could shut down websites, even no good terrorists who hate American Values^TM.

[Dalek]

In times like this, I feel happy that I live in this shithole, Bulgaria, where no law is ever followed and where this will never happen. Tough when that law is active I guess the upload to torrent trackers will go down, and we wont have much to download  I can't imagine my life without piracy, where a videogame costs about 1/2 of a minimal wage.

[Chief Uwachiquen]

Wow. I am actually left speechless by this one. I didn't think something like this would come along for a long time. I'll have to get myself a pair of wading boots to get through all the bull-shit that's going to come with this. I'mma just hope that it doesn't actually go through.

Dibs on the Slim Pickins role.

Well thank goodness SOMEONE will be ridin' the bomb. Be sure to bring your cowboy apparel to the occasion.

[Triple Zero]

1. What's anything of this got to do with counterfeiting? Why are all these American laws (or proposals or whatever) always named after something that has nothing to do with what they're about?

2. Learn to encrypt. Now. Get GPG, get one of the related tools and the firefox extension, make sure your email client can handle it, and start encrypting the fuck out of everything. Not really related to filesharing, but related to all the scary plans They have for the internets in general.

3. If we gonna do Faust's suggestion, I suggest we destroy Google and other search engines first. Let em try to ban shit if they can't find it :-P

[Triple Zero]

But then, in other news, the EU decision on the telecom package went surprisingly well:

http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/telecom-package-final-agreed-text/

[The Johnny]

Mexico is a piracy beast - that none will tame in the near future.

Also, didnt the piratebay.xxx move to some international waters nuclear bunker?

[LMNO]

Dibs on the Slim Pickins role.

Well thank goodness SOMEONE will be ridin' the bomb. Be sure to bring your cowboy apparel to the occasion.

I made some improvements.  For example: Assless Chaps.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

1. What's anything of this got to do with counterfeiting? Why are all these American laws (or proposals or whatever) always named after something that has nothing to do with what they're about?

Because pissing on Orwell's grave is our national sport.

[Cramulus]

Mexico is a piracy beast - that none will tame in the near future.

Also, didnt the piratebay.xxx move to some international waters nuclear bunker?

yeah, the pirate bay is now hosted in a cyberbunker in russia

[Remington]

But then, in other news, the EU decision on the telecom package went surprisingly well:

http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/telecom-package-final-agreed-text/

Good stuff. It's a step in the right direction.

Mexico is a piracy beast - that none will tame in the near future.

Also, didnt the piratebay.xxx move to some international waters nuclear bunker?

yeah, the pirate bay is now hosted in a cyberbunker in russia

Piratebay.org: Now immune to direct nuclear strike!

[Remington]

It's getting worse: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/04/more-on-secret-copyr.html

I hope to Goddess that this thing never sees the light of day.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

This shit will be unenforceable.

[Remington]

This shit will be unenforceable.

You might be surprised. 850,000 people went to jail last year for possessing the leaves of a plant (marijuana).

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

I seriously doubt it and when it hits the courts they can't just ignore all of the precedence. If the supreme court doesn't end up shooting this down if it passes and is challenged then I'll be fucking amazed.

[the other anonymous]

This shit will be unenforceable.

You might be surprised. 850,000 people went to jail last year for being black.

Fixxed.