chaserawr
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RIP SOPA , by chaserawr on Jan 19, 2012 21:37:27 GMT 1, they better laywer up. Sad day for the internet.
they better laywer up. Sad day for the internet.
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RIP SOPA , by maumau93 on Jan 19, 2012 22:00:21 GMT 1, fuck! that site was used for more than piracy!
i personally don't think this is a war they shouldn't of started! there is guna be some fuming people with the means and know how to do some real damage!
fuck! that site was used for more than piracy!
i personally don't think this is a war they shouldn't of started! there is guna be some fuming people with the means and know how to do some real damage!
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RIP SOPA , by manty on Jan 19, 2012 22:09:33 GMT 1, Very worrying
and all this extradition they are intending
not good, hopefully there will be a deserved backlash
Very worrying
and all this extradition they are intending
not good, hopefully there will be a deserved backlash
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RIP SOPA , by manty on Jan 19, 2012 22:45:30 GMT 1, This little cartoon explains it pretty well for the lowbrows like me :-)
theoatmeal.com/sopa
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RIP SOPA , by notworthit on Jan 19, 2012 22:49:41 GMT 1, Anonymous possibly going after Justice.gov and universalmusic.com? Both sites appear to be down. Let the games begin.
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RIP SOPA , by maumau93 on Jan 19, 2012 23:26:28 GMT 1, this is guna be a long one!!!
this is guna be a long one!!!
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RIP SOPA , by Coach on Jan 19, 2012 23:51:35 GMT 1, All this is lost on me.
I had never heard of megadownload.
And what sort of surname is Dotcom?!
All this is lost on me.
I had never heard of megadownload.
And what sort of surname is Dotcom?!
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chaserawr
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RIP SOPA , by chaserawr on Jan 20, 2012 0:02:38 GMT 1, Hell yes.
I quote from Anonymous "The corrupt fear us, the honest support us!"
Hell yes.
I quote from Anonymous "The corrupt fear us, the honest support us!"
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RIP SOPA , by maumau93 on Jan 20, 2012 0:51:43 GMT 1, i wonder who will be the first street artist to turn this subject into art???
i wonder who will be the first street artist to turn this subject into art???
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sfinks
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RIP SOPA , by sfinks on Jan 20, 2012 1:31:08 GMT 1, If this is all because the US entertainment industry wants to try and earn a few extra $...
I mean seriously. Does ppl even buy compact discs, DVDs and stuff like that for a shit load of money still?
If they shut down the Internet, will you start buying crap that you only watch or listen to once, and takes a ton of place to store?
How ignorant are they?
Instead of fighting for stone age technology, get up to date and adjust to evolution.
I really hope this is a lost cause for those who want to control the free Internet.
If this is all because the US entertainment industry wants to try and earn a few extra $...
I mean seriously. Does ppl even buy compact discs, DVDs and stuff like that for a shit load of money still?
If they shut down the Internet, will you start buying crap that you only watch or listen to once, and takes a ton of place to store?
How ignorant are they?
Instead of fighting for stone age technology, get up to date and adjust to evolution.
I really hope this is a lost cause for those who want to control the free Internet.
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RIP SOPA , by Deleted on Jan 20, 2012 2:52:33 GMT 1, Thats quite an achievement.. I feel so unsafe now 
Thats quite an achievement.. I feel so unsafe now |
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RIP SOPA , by Deleted on Jan 20, 2012 7:00:42 GMT 1, And this is only the beginning .
And this is only the beginning .
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RIP SOPA , by Deleted on Jan 20, 2012 7:59:26 GMT 1, SOPA means hello in maasai !!
SOPA means hello in maasai !!
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RIP SOPA , by manty on Jan 20, 2012 8:41:22 GMT 1, If this is all because the US entertainment industry wants to try and earn a few extra $... I mean seriously. Does ppl even buy compact discs, DVDs and stuff like that for a s**t load of money still? If they shut down the Internet, will you start buying crap that you only watch or listen to once, and takes a ton of place to store? How ignorant are they? Instead of fighting for stone age technology, get up to date and adjust to evolution. I really hope this is a lost cause for those who want to control the free Internet.
Thats a fair point. I think they need to get their own house in order.
This is pretty interesting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
If this is all because the US entertainment industry wants to try and earn a few extra $... I mean seriously. Does ppl even buy compact discs, DVDs and stuff like that for a s**t load of money still? If they shut down the Internet, will you start buying crap that you only watch or listen to once, and takes a ton of place to store? How ignorant are they? Instead of fighting for stone age technology, get up to date and adjust to evolution. I really hope this is a lost cause for those who want to control the free Internet. Thats a fair point. I think they need to get their own house in order. This is pretty interesting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting |
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RIP SOPA , by Rsyok on Jan 20, 2012 16:12:40 GMT 1,
Present !
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RIP SOPA , by balibob on Jan 20, 2012 16:55:20 GMT 1, Hey Fragile...are you also one of the anonymous guys as well as the oracle on here? ;D
Hey Fragile...are you also one of the anonymous guys as well as the oracle on here? ;D
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RIP SOPA , by manty on Jan 20, 2012 17:26:53 GMT 1, Present !
I think you have just infringed copyright
You will self destruct shortly
and this forum will be closed forthwith without recourse
Have a nice day now !
Present ! I think you have just infringed copyright You will self destruct shortly and this forum will be closed forthwith without recourse Have a nice day now ! |
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RIP SOPA , by manty on Jan 20, 2012 17:31:55 GMT 1, Land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Or maybe a little Orwellian
You guys have got to get this sorted
Its stuuuuuuuuuupid
Land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Or maybe a little Orwellian
You guys have got to get this sorted
Its stuuuuuuuuuupid
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RIP SOPA , by fingerz on Jan 20, 2012 23:17:38 GMT 1, A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”
“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause
We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.
#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going?
We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps.
13 million strong,
Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future!
P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:
In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:
‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"
A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”
“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause
We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.
#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going?
We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps.
13 million strong,
Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future!
P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:
In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:
‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"
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RIP SOPA , by boatyyy on Jan 21, 2012 5:46:44 GMT 1, the people's power to affect and effect change or stop damage can never be underestimated - once united...
the people's power to affect and effect change or stop damage can never be underestimated - once united...
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RIP SOPA , by otomi on Jan 21, 2012 7:33:30 GMT 1, its only on the shelf until they reach an agreement with the big internet companies no one will listen to the users
once an issue emerges that doesn't affect google, twitter and facebook's business the online "revolt" won't be as easy
its only on the shelf until they reach an agreement with the big internet companies no one will listen to the users
once an issue emerges that doesn't affect google, twitter and facebook's business the online "revolt" won't be as easy
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RIP SOPA , by balibob on Jan 21, 2012 11:04:09 GMT 1, As several peeps have already said, this is just the first pass, its not going to go away unfortunately.
As several peeps have already said, this is just the first pass, its not going to go away unfortunately.
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iamzero
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RIP SOPA , by iamzero on Jan 21, 2012 11:13:04 GMT 1, The whole copyright thing reminds me of the 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' lie back in the 80's. 30years on and it hasn't killed anything yet, I personally buy music as a hard copy as I'm a collector but some people don't.
These people wouldn't buy music no matter what so by stopping them downloading it achieves nothing, they would just get a copy of it from someone like me so the industry isn't really losing out? Just corporate greed.
Big companies are happy to leak music from forthcoming albums to create a hype as it suits them but when people download the whole album they scream unfair.
They can't have it all ways.
The whole copyright thing reminds me of the 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' lie back in the 80's. 30years on and it hasn't killed anything yet, I personally buy music as a hard copy as I'm a collector but some people don't.
These people wouldn't buy music no matter what so by stopping them downloading it achieves nothing, they would just get a copy of it from someone like me so the industry isn't really losing out? Just corporate greed.
Big companies are happy to leak music from forthcoming albums to create a hype as it suits them but when people download the whole album they scream unfair.
They can't have it all ways.
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RIP SOPA , by boatyyy on Jan 21, 2012 11:28:10 GMT 1, its only on the shelf until they reach an agreement with the big internet companies no one will listen to the users once an issue emerges that doesn't affect google, twitter and facebook's business the online "revolt" won't be as easy
tis true... as an aside and off topic, if you look for the early signs for emerging issues and the power bases to get control of who will have to be fought off in decades to come - it will be some of these big internet companies who are already taking over some human control... i suspect there will be a battle to fight with them for future generations (just a diff "1%")... just chatting it up is all...
its only on the shelf until they reach an agreement with the big internet companies no one will listen to the users once an issue emerges that doesn't affect google, twitter and facebook's business the online "revolt" won't be as easy tis true... as an aside and off topic, if you look for the early signs for emerging issues and the power bases to get control of who will have to be fought off in decades to come - it will be some of these big internet companies who are already taking over some human control... i suspect there will be a battle to fight with them for future generations (just a diff "1%")... just chatting it up is all... |
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RIP SOPA , by maumau93 on Jan 22, 2012 3:30:28 GMT 1, some scary s**t these guys can find out and do!!! just been following some tweets and they got full access to the us SCADA system (supervisory control and data acquisition, generally refers to industrial control systems (ICS): computer systems that monitor and control industrial, infrastructure, or facility-based processes)!!!
and this site which is where they share all their hacks (or so it looks to me)
pastebin.com
and a list of some of the targets that have been taken down so far
pastebin.com/WEydcBVV
some scary s**t these guys can find out and do!!! just been following some tweets and they got full access to the us SCADA system (supervisory control and data acquisition, generally refers to industrial control systems (ICS): computer systems that monitor and control industrial, infrastructure, or facility-based processes)!!! and this site which is where they share all their hacks (or so it looks to me) pastebin.comand a list of some of the targets that have been taken down so far pastebin.com/WEydcBVV |
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RIP SOPA , by fingerz on Jan 26, 2012 9:13:31 GMT 1, Now that Congress has had time to process last week's internet blackout, a consensus has emerged: SOPA and PIPA are toxic for politicians, and going anywhere near them could cost them their re-election.
Freedom is winning.
Together, we've done something amazing-- never have so many people stood up to defend a free and open internet. Here's a San Francisco Chronicle article about how it all came together: The Largest Online Protest in History Started Here.
And here's Carl Franzen at Talking Points Memo:
"Behind the scenes, Hill staffers from both sides of the aisle confirmed to TPM that the entire piracy debate had become so 'toxic' that virtually no lawmakers were likely to be ready to re-engage it anytime soon."
Experienced Congress-watchers are telling us they've never seen anything like this.
Internet users, tech companies, and non-profits joined together to defend fundamental rights on the internet. To a lot of elites in Congress and the corporate world, the internet is just something that lazy teenagers use to spam people with pictures of photoshopped unicorns. The blackout showed that the peer-to-peer internet is about empowerment, and that when we work together we can defeat the corrupt politics of Washington D.C.
The New York Times and Talking Points Memo have both published good articles on how the web blackout was organized.
For months, four senators were the only force blocking passage of PIPA/SOPA. They even promised to filibuster the bill back when most politicians were against them. We need to make sure we support and vote for leaders like them who are willing to going to go out on a limb and oppose SOPA before it was popular to do so. It's great that we pressured all those other shlubs into opposing web censorship, but these guys deserve the real cred and our support: Click here to donate (scroll down).
What's next? The Fight is not over, already new threats to web freedom are starting to emerge (particularly in Europe) and we're getting ready. Stay tuned.
Now that Congress has had time to process last week's internet blackout, a consensus has emerged: SOPA and PIPA are toxic for politicians, and going anywhere near them could cost them their re-election.
Freedom is winning.
Together, we've done something amazing-- never have so many people stood up to defend a free and open internet. Here's a San Francisco Chronicle article about how it all came together: The Largest Online Protest in History Started Here.
And here's Carl Franzen at Talking Points Memo:
"Behind the scenes, Hill staffers from both sides of the aisle confirmed to TPM that the entire piracy debate had become so 'toxic' that virtually no lawmakers were likely to be ready to re-engage it anytime soon."
Experienced Congress-watchers are telling us they've never seen anything like this.
Internet users, tech companies, and non-profits joined together to defend fundamental rights on the internet. To a lot of elites in Congress and the corporate world, the internet is just something that lazy teenagers use to spam people with pictures of photoshopped unicorns. The blackout showed that the peer-to-peer internet is about empowerment, and that when we work together we can defeat the corrupt politics of Washington D.C.
The New York Times and Talking Points Memo have both published good articles on how the web blackout was organized.
For months, four senators were the only force blocking passage of PIPA/SOPA. They even promised to filibuster the bill back when most politicians were against them. We need to make sure we support and vote for leaders like them who are willing to going to go out on a limb and oppose SOPA before it was popular to do so. It's great that we pressured all those other shlubs into opposing web censorship, but these guys deserve the real cred and our support: Click here to donate (scroll down).
What's next? The Fight is not over, already new threats to web freedom are starting to emerge (particularly in Europe) and we're getting ready. Stay tuned.
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