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| 01-18-12 10:51am - 4722 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
SOPA! An important one here folks! Even if, like me, you are not in the US it will have a massive effect on our online experience. Please visit here & sign the petition! http://americancensorship.org/ Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 01-18-12 12:27pm - 4722 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Thanks for posting on this Capn. I thought about starting a thread on this a while back but, as seems to be my motivation level around here lately, I just didn't get around to it. My overall impression is that it much ado about mostly nothing. SOPA is the music / movie industries response to potential lost profit. Their idea was to get a law passed that would make websites, search engines and ISP's liable for linking to sites that contain pirated material. Of course this would mean sites like You-tube and Google would go out of business or just become the first stopping place for people whose lives revolve cute animal videos. The lasting effect would be the destruction of the free flowing internet we know today. The bill was / is a bad idea and I think the Congressional Neanderthals who barely know how to email are finally waking up to this fact. Do note that something, probably not this year since too many politicians are playing the election year game of "cover your ass", will probably emerge regarding stricter sanctions against pirated material. It's too early to really tell what a proposed final version will look like. | |
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| 01-18-12 12:37pm - 4722 days | #3 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Still, getting as many signatories as possible has to help. Cap'n. Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 01-20-12 10:45am - 4720 days | #4 | |
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t9chome (0)
Active User Posts: 78 Registered: Oct 30, '10 Location: usa |
All of the Republican contenders in last night's debate opposed it, but also agreed something needs to be done about online piracy. It's just that SOPA violates civil liberties by giving the government the power to shut down any site that is even accused of violating copyright violation. This, of course negates the constitutional requirement that one must be proven guilty in a court of law before being penalized for breaking a law. You'd think, and reasonably so, that as the majority of those in Congress are lawyers that they would know better than crafting this kind of illegal legislation, but the way it is nowadays, they pass anti liberty laws, enforce them, punish offenders, and then wait for the US Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of the case. This is way fucked up! | |
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| 01-22-12 10:05pm - 4718 days | #5 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
The shot-across-the-bow of busting MegaUpload seems to have had the desired double-whammy effect, since FileServe has now shut down all file sharing activities. I believe those were 2 of the biggest file sharing services that paid money to people whose files were downloaded. | |
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| 01-22-12 11:42pm - 4718 days | #6 | |
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pinkerton (0)
Active User  Posts: 151 Registered: Jan 13, '07 Location: UK |
Filesonic has been reduced to a cloud file upload service - you can only download files that you've uploaded and no-one elses uploads. | |
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| 01-23-12 06:44am - 4717 days | #7 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Right - FileSonic, FileServe & File Jungle have now all shut down file sharing - so it's a 4 for 1 that they got so far with the arrest of the MegaUpload owners. Edited on Jan 23, 2012, 06:49am | |
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| 01-23-12 06:56am - 4717 days | #8 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Are they all failing like in a domino game ??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRcjt2LA...&feature=related "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 01-23-12 10:47am - 4717 days | #9 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Not being tech savy then I could be very wrong but is it possible that some if not all of these sites were really only satelite sites of Megauplaod and that they all shared the same file and the same servers? Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-23-12 11:00am - 4717 days | #10 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
It wouldn't be too difficult to set it up like that. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 01-23-12 05:34pm - 4717 days | #11 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I heard that the "File" trio were owned by the same company - but there have been other un-related file lockers that also shut down or blocked US IP addresses. I thought this was an interesting article on the "legal" users of Mega-Upload and other such sites - now very much shit-out-of-luck: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012...-of-luck-for-now.ars | |
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| 01-23-12 07:31pm - 4717 days | #12 | |
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BubbaGump (0)
Active User  Posts: 109 Registered: Jan 08, '12 Location: USA |
Not to minimize the inconvenience to mega users but a lot worse things can happen to you if a company you do business with is up to something illegal or shady. I lost 10k in Enron stock and about 40 percent of my 401 k during the economic meltdown precipitated by shady lending practices of the subprime mortgage industry. That is SOL. This is just an annoyance for users. | |
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