So, the three major companies support SOPA.

[fruckert]

Goddamn it Lucas!
Your rampant piracy of games, comics, and movies are why I can't get a job!

[Archem]

And yet, the act would punish American pirates. Go ****ing figure.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Looks like the protest is working though, because many of the supporters of the bill are backing out.

[Felix-0]

Mojang is also blacked out~

[MissingName]

We'll just have to wait and see how this pans out.  If it gets passed, we're all screwed.

[TyDrace]

You know, I love that we don't have this problem in Europe. Freedom on the internet is in our laws.

[fruckert]

Yeah, Europe is a pretty great country.

[Archem]

They have a pretty cool president.

[drenrin2120]

Yeah... *dreamy sighs*

[Prpl_Mage]

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?

[drenrin2120]

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.

[fruckert]

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 ****

[SaiKar]

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.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

SOPA and PIPA have been stopped. For now. The senators backed-off.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16655272