Internet Blackout to Protest SOPA

[Cramulus]

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia 

an index of people who are PISSED OFF THAT WIKIPEDIA'S DOWN

[Don Coyote]

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia 

an index of people who are PISSED OFF THAT WIKIPEDIA'S DOWN

Wow @ teh derp.

[LMNO]

Heh. Has anyone checked out the Google fron page yet?  It's mildly amusing.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Well hell, I posted in the wrong thread. Should have posted here.
Seems for now, there will not be a communication kill switch.

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/01/16/victory-for-internet-freedom-us-congress-shelves-sopa-bill/
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found

*killed fb account for shits and grins anyway*

The threat of Hollywood still remains.
Hollywood delenda est.

Yup. And that's a big giant to try to take down.

Small steps. I recommend that we send the word around the net and try to organize a boycott. Also, we should try to encourage people to create and distribute copyleft material to weaken the market for the entertainment industry. I've actually written a short manifesto on this topic which I will post once I get to somewhere where I can transfer things off of my memory card.

People at work are annoyed about it. We use Wikipedia a lot. Being in the UK, there's not much we can do about it either.

Petition your government to impose sanctions (and/or declare war) on the USA if SOPA passes.

Hollywood delenda est.

I was dead serious about the sanctions thing, (but not about the war part though).

[kingyak]

All the half-assed blackouts (many of them by the companies that will suffer least from a day's lost revenue) makes me really appreciate the Steve Jackson Games page's "If you really want to see our site now, click here" link.

[Cramulus]

All the half-assed blackouts (many of them by the companies that will suffer least from a day's lost revenue) makes me really appreciate the Steve Jackson Games page's "If you really want to see our site now, click here" link.

:snerk:

okay, Steve Fancy Grabass Jackson gets a point on that one.

[Don Coyote]

All the half-assed blackouts (many of them by the companies that will suffer least from a day's lost revenue) makes me really appreciate the Steve Jackson Games page's "If you really want to see our site now, click here" link.

Whoa.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

All the half-assed blackouts (many of them by the companies that will suffer least from a day's lost revenue) makes me really appreciate the Steve Jackson Games page's "If you really want to see our site now, click here" link.

That's good. Major points.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia 

an index of people who are PISSED OFF THAT WIKIPEDIA'S DOWN

This is awesome, and the funniest part is how many of them are college students who apparently were planning on using Wikipedia as a source, AND YET are also apparently unable to read the splash page, are confused about why it's down and how long it will be down for.

FUTURE OF AMERICA!

[kingyak]

All the half-assed blackouts (many of them by the companies that will suffer least from a day's lost revenue) makes me really appreciate the Steve Jackson Games page's "If you really want to see our site now, click here" link.

:snerk:

okay, Steve Fancy Grabass Jackson gets a point on that one.

Also, he's got sexxxxy leather pants!

[kingyak]

The Oatmeal has a nice .gif on its blackout page.

[Cramulus]

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

I got it! Let's completely restructure the way we communicate so that a few businesses don't have to adapt their business strategies to new technology.


Imagine a world where video rental stores, newspapers, and CDs are just as profitable as they were in the 90s, forever! Everybody wins!

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Small steps. I recommend that we send the word around the net and try to organize a boycott. Also, we should try to encourage people to create and distribute copyleft material to weaken the market for the entertainment industry. I've actually written a short manifesto on this topic which I will post once I get to somewhere where I can transfer things off of my memory card.

In light of recent political developments it has become clear that Hollywood and the music industry have become a threat to our freedom whose continued existence can no longer be safely permitted.   

How do I propose that this threat be eliminated? By collapsing the market for their services through the large scale, widespread production and distribution of Kopyleft ('kopyleft'- delibrately left uncopyrighted/in the public domain by the creator of the work) materials (in an easily redistributable format whenever possile). Obviously, I cannot accomplish this by myself, and so I am calling upon all of you to write, record, and freely distribute your own songs and films.

I understand that many of you will state that you are already doing this, throughyoutube, and that is an admirable start, but sadly this is no longer sufficient and is, furthermore, in danger of ceasing to remain an option should bills such as SOPA, PIPA, or others which may arise as their spiritual successors be passed (and be warned that even if the immediate threat is shot down the greater threat from the RIAA and MPAA will remain). While you should continue to post videos to YouTube and songs to music sharing sites you should also make an effort to distribute them through mediums which are more easily copied and redistributed as we as more secure against tampering and government intrusion. Copy your songs and videos to a DVD or flash drive and have tour friends pass it around between them and copy the content to their own drives, to be further copied and distributed to others in their lives whom you may not know personally.

You can also help more directly by boycotting the latest movies and by not buying firsthand CDs or DVDs or downloadable music.

Do not, however, I repeat DO NOT destroy any mainstream media you already posess. While powerful as a symbolic gesture, doing so would open the possibility of you purchasing new copies of the destroyed media if you have a change of heart, which is directly counter to what we want to happen; Furthermore, any media which you desire to get rid of anyway should be resold or given away to help prevent firsthand sales.                                                 

Please help spread this message. Explain it to your friends and family and/or copy it to other forums. Spread the word. To preserve our freedom, Hollywood (and the music industry) must be destroyed.

[Thurnez Isa]

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia 

an index of people who are PISSED OFF THAT WIKIPEDIA'S DOWN

This is awesome, and the funniest part is how many of them are college students who apparently were planning on using Wikipedia as a source, AND YET are also apparently unable to read the splash page, are confused about why it's down and how long it will be down for.

FUTURE OF AMERICA!

I don't know what they're worried about. Conservapedia is still up and kicking

[Cain]

I was dead serious about the sanctions thing, (but not about the war part though).

Yes.  Terribly useful advice for people living in a country which is renowned internally and internationally for kowtowing to US interests and having a government that panders to corporate conglomerate interests.  "Hey Cameron, go totally against the last 50 years of British history and the last 200 years of your own party's ideology and do this thing for us, will ya?"



I'd rather spend my time jerking off.  Actually, I did spend my time jerking off.  It took roughly the same length of time it would to write and and email my objections, but had a vastly more satisfying outcome.

Oh yeah, and in the meantime, our government just cancelled a public inquiry into torture for a bunch of highly dubious reasons.  So we might just be a little busy worrying about shit that matters over here more than being able to pirate the latest episode of 30 Rock.