Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Grandy on November 18, 2011, 07:58:39 PM
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http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/nintendo-ea-sony-sponsor-internet-censorship-bill/
inb4lucasdoesapunwithsoup
But yeah, even if I don't think that bill is going very far... WHAT THE HELL, NINTENDO SONY AND MICROSOT? WHAT. THE. ****ING. HELL
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Wait, I don't see Microsoft in there. I doubt they would want that what with they liking people using computers and all.
Still, **** Microsoft due to completely unrelated things.
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I'm scared that this and the E-PARASITE Act will actually get passed. Any site even suspected to have copyright infringement can get taken down and even removed from major search engines. Admittedly, our congress is filled with idiots who don't know what these bills will do. It's terrifying.
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Hey, you guys know one thing?
Charas used to host RPGMaker files.
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Hey, you guys know another thing? It will only block americans. Me, Grandy, and all those Europeans can still visit Charas all we want! Yay.
Also that bill sounds tasty.
It can block american sites for foreigners as well, AFAIK.
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I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
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And soon enough the Americans will start missing their internets and start protesting somehow.
I bet they'll do an online petition.
I meant that as a joke but then realised petitions probably wouldn't be touched by this bill. So yeah, that's likely what they'd do.
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I thought this was a joke when I first read it.
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In the eyes of Americans, too.
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Everyone's politics everywhere, really. Europolitics are no less WUT worthy.
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Well ****.
Better just trash my laptop.
In all seriousness, I've been following this for a while. I've even contacted my local representative.
Unfortunately, I'm the first call his office has even gotten concerning Protect-IP...
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The bill won't pass, Americans love their so called freedom. Just sit back and laugh.
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I'm British.
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn111/zuhane/Tom_Cruise_Huge_smile1.jpg)
Seriously though. Effing homo rule right there!
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Not even going to address how completely bullshit that is right now. Massive headache. Super effective.
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The bill won't pass, Americans love their so called freedom. Just sit back and laugh.
Some Americans and other non-Americans love money.
Good luck, I am behind seven proxies.
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The bill won't pass, Americans love their so called freedom. Just sit back and laugh.
Yeahhh... that's why we have things like the Patriot Act and the War on Drugs... Because we love our freedoms and fight back.
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Yeahhh... that's why we have things like the Patriot Act and the War on Drugs... Because we love our freedoms and fight back.
That's different, that is based on effects people are closer to. Drugs has destroyed lives, 9/11 effected almost the entire country, but few can say the internet fucked them up.
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Americans love their reactionary legislation. Just look at the number of laws named after missing children.
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http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/33243-top-11-reasons-he-wont-review-digimon
I feel that was related.
I love Doug. no homo
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(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8550/greatnewad.png)
No input, I just thought that this ad I saw on the main page was awesome.
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Man a roman orgy with a vaguely asian woman with one eye purple and one green.
count me in for this roman orgy.
No homo.
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:(
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Even if this bill does pass, it won't affect me. I'm in the process of moving to Canada.
So long, suckers :hi:
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Man a roman orgy with a vaguely asian woman with one eye purple and one green.
count me in for this roman orgy.
No homo.
Well that's awfully specific.
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That's what's great with knowing computer science. This bill is bullshit, but we can just use an onion network or vpn networks at the least to get access to anything we want to. It just requires five minutes or so of extra time to set up. The US government is years behind the smart computer user ;)
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That's what's great with knowing computer science. This bill is bullshit, but we can just use an onion network or vpn networks at the least to get access to anything we want to. It just requires five minutes or so of extra time to set up. The US government is years behind the smart computer user ;)
But I'm not a smart computer user.
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:megusta:
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I once spoke spanish to impress a girl. I kept surprising myself by how much I had remembered from high school. Then I woke up. =(
But uh, yeah, go wikipedia!
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Cyanide & Happiness is redpaging.
And AmazingSuperPowers.
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/sopa/sopa.gif)
from >>> http://theoatmeal.com/
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The MPAA's reaction (http://www.mpaa.org/resources/c4c3712a-7b9f-4be8-bd70-25527d5dfad8.pdf) is ****ing hilarious.
It is ... an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today.
Yup.
The MPAA thinks that a protest is an abuse of power.
God help us all.
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Goddamn it Lucas!
Your rampant piracy of games, comics, and movies are why I can't get a job!
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And yet, the act would punish American pirates. Go ****ing figure.
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Looks like the protest is working though, because many of the supporters of the bill are backing out.
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Mojang is also blacked out~
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We'll just have to wait and see how this pans out. If it gets passed, we're all screwed.
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You know, I love that we don't have this problem in Europe. Freedom on the internet is in our laws.
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Yeah, Europe is a pretty great country.
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They have a pretty cool president.
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Yeah... *dreamy sighs*
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I don't think we have any laws for internet freedom here in the country of South America, but it's not like there's any issues with that. Nobody really cares about pirates and CP.
40% of your merchandise is either stolen or pirated so why should you care about the internet with those digital thingmajings?
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http://www.slideshare.net/ECPAevents/brian-oleary-how-much-does-free-cost
Found that pretty interesting. Basically saying that, like with most things, the tighter and more stringent the laws become, the more likely people are to commit these crimes, be accused of committing a crime, or to abuse the power of the law as an authority figure. Also claims piracy won't go away and more laws only hurt the customers who begin to feel like they're under attack for obeying the law while pirates get better products and don't have to deal with jumping through hoops.
As we can see with MegaUpload and MegaVideo getting canned.
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What the ****ing ****.
ed: ...erm...I didn't post this in this topic.
I posted this in the "Well this sucks" topic.
what the ****ing ****
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Found that pretty interesting. Basically saying that, like with most things, the tighter and more stringent the laws become, the more likely people are to commit these crimes, be accused of committing a crime, or to abuse the power of the law as an authority figure. Also claims piracy won't go away and more laws only hurt the customers who begin to feel like they're under attack for obeying the law while pirates get better products and don't have to deal with jumping through hoops.
Yepper. This is exactly what we saw with music in the past ten years or so. Nobody wanted to pay 20 bucks for a CD with 2 songs they liked and so much DRM that the files had be opened in some wacky software... when they could spend about 2 minutes to find the exact MP3 online totally DRM free.
The compromise of songs online for like a buck didn't stop the privacy, but it did make following the law less rape on consumers.
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SOPA and PIPA have been stopped. For now. The senators backed-off.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16655272