Thank fuck the internet protested against this draconian bullshit. Sites like WIKIPEDIA stood up for all our rights and a movement was overturned which threatened to destroy our freedoms and shit. Now we can sleep soundly in our beds at night knowing that shit like THIS (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17039722) can never happen.
Remember kiddies - every single file you share costs the industry $175billion and at least a dozen artists starve to death, right then and there, the second you click "download".
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 16, 2012, 03:31:29 PM
Thank fuck the internet protested against this draconian bullshit. Sites like WIKIPEDIA stood up for all our rights and a movement was overturned which threatened to destroy our freedoms and shit. Now we can sleep soundly in our beds at night knowing that shit like THIS (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17039722) can never happen.
Remember kiddies - every single file you share costs the industry $175billion and at least a dozen artists starve to death, right then and there, the second you click "download".
I have no problem with legitimate copyright protection.
But that's not what SOPA was all about. SOPA was all about giving various law enforcement agencies the right to shut down websites with no oversight...And also making copyright violation a legal matter, instead of a civil matter.
WAIT! :lulz:
Filesharing is SERIOUS ORGANIZED CRIME?
Good thing there's no mafia or anything to worry about. :lulz:
"I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It's true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs file sharing instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs file sharing, that's a dirty business."--Don Corleone
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 16, 2012, 03:49:42 PM
WAIT! :lulz:
Filesharing is SERIOUS ORGANIZED CRIME?
Good thing there's no mafia or anything to worry about. :lulz:
srsly - the duplicate files are made out of the flesh of romanian orphans
Keep in mind that what SOPA legalizes is already being done (http://megaupload.com). Now, were SOPA to pass, there would be more tolerance for (say) the FBI to perform other similar operations that are nominally illegal on account of it being just over the line of what they are legally allowed to do, just as there hasn't been a huge backlash about this (http://tvshack.net).
The irony of taking away the domain someone paid for in the interest of protecting names someone else paid for nonwithstanding, of course.