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ItsaDuc

#45
January 20, 2012, 07:08:31 AM
Quote from: Sad Panda on January 20, 2012, 06:28:32 AM
These Anonymous actions aren't as a protest against SOPA/PiPA  - they are in retaliation for the shutting down of megauploads.com for piracy, copyrights infringements etc etc.  I'm shocked it took the feds this long to shut that site down. But the DOS attacks on the DOJ site, RIAA etc aren't part of the SOPA/PIPA protests going on - they are just coincidentally timed.


True, but if I read it correctly, the fed had jurisdiction because of a server located in the US for Megaupload but with the SOPA/PIPA law they would not need that and could simply block the site

Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong.

Slide Panda

#46
January 20, 2012, 07:32:52 AM
Yeah - Mega has/had some servers in the US.

The SOPA/PIPA stuff is a lot broader. Problem is, it's more like trying to solder a pin-hole leak in your plumbing with a flame thrower. Sure it'll heat up that pipe enough to melt solder... but the collateral damage will be big.

It's so broad and structured in a guilty until proven innocent fashion. As a result sites like wikipedia, reddit the DMF could get blocked. Posting an image or video with copyrighted materials to a site puts it in jeopardy under the provisions outlined in those bills. Pretty much any site that takes comments, discussions, aggregates news would be under threat.

The motomatters article and TED talk video do pretty good jobs of summing things up.
And John Stewart is just funny and on point.

-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

Dirty Duc

#47
January 20, 2012, 07:36:09 AM
And anyway, if you need protectionist legislation to keep making a profit, your economic model is no longer competitive and you need to innovate or die.  It's the entertainment industry, it's not really too big to fail.

zarn02

#48
January 20, 2012, 10:21:43 AM
Some commentary regarding the indictment against Megaupload:  http://www.popehat.com/2012/01/20/a-few-notes-by-a-federal-criminal-practitioner-on-the-megaupload-indictment/

Popehat also has a handful of SOPA/PIPA related posts.
"If it weren't for our gallows humor, we'd have nothing to hang our hopes on."

The Mad King Pepe'

#49
January 20, 2012, 11:50:04 AM
Quote from: derby on January 19, 2012, 10:50:00 AM
http://www.ted.com/talks/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html
Brilliant talk! [thumbsup]

I'd like to make it a mandatory viewing for the "boffins" in the capitol. [laugh]
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Slide Panda

#50
January 20, 2012, 12:07:18 PM
Quote from: The Mad King Pepe' on January 20, 2012, 11:50:04 AM
I'd like to make it a mandatory viewing for the "boffins" in the capitol. [laugh]

It might make them Nerds... they won't do it.
-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.
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