p99/red99 slated to get shut down when SOPA passes

[GETINMYVAN]

If the government thinks people are batshit crazy because of the whole Occupy movement, just wait until they take away our interwebz. Full blown fucking chaos will ensue.

[stormlord]

What if they use this to block anti-american sites?

The other issue is that it's so easy nowadays to copy things and share them that it's getting silly to worry about it so much. The problem isn't the people copying/sharing so much as it's their business model, imho.

For example, what if we had a machine that could replicate any object in existence? What if I could put my TV into it and make a replica? The company that made the TV would immediately sue me when it finds out, right? How would they prevent this machine from being able to replicate patented or commercialized products?

I think the whole idea of how we do business is going to be changed.

[stormlord]

If you look at EQ, it's a bit different than a stand-alone product. For example, while p1999 uses an old client (and the models and everything that came with it), it does NOT allow p1999 users to log onto live for free. All of the server assets are created from scratch. It's like receiving half of a CD and having to recreate the other halve, but even then, you only get scratchy/inferior playback. Whatever the diehard gamers do on the outside, they'll always be behind EQ live. Furthermore, it's absolutely off-limits for these emulated servers to require users to pay money. This means the money to create the servers and maintain them and pay their networking costs is all out of pocket.

[stormlord]

If emulated servers could, in theory, do BETTER than the actual commercial servers, then wouldn't that suggest that profiteering is happening? If FREE services are better than proprietary services then something is wrong. What I think is going on here is a small niche is being met by these emulated servers, but, in all practicality, EQ live is not existentially threatened by this whatsoever. It's like having a heart attack because someone that's mentally retarded and disabled -might- be better than you! In fact, I think EQ live benefits from this. They might even be able to get information to make their own product better.

[stormlord]

It's like a homeless man sneaking into your store and stealing a bottle of wine and then throw him in jail for 50 years. It doesn't make any sense to do that.

It only makes sense if this is all much MUCH bigger than any of us realize. For example, this guy isn't homeless after all. He's a millionaire and he steals wine from multiple places and resells it.

[stormlord]

Originally Posted by stormlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's like a homeless man sneaking into your store and stealing a bottle of wine and then throw him in jail for 50 years. It doesn't make any sense to do that.

It only makes sense if this is all much MUCH bigger than any of us realize. For example, this guy isn't homeless after all. He's a millionaire and he steals wine from multiple places and resells it.

Or your country is filled with homeless people stealing wine from stores.

In that case, the problem is that you have so many homeless people. Putting them in jail will bankrupt the country unless you have forced labor.

[pickled_heretic]

combo breaker?

[Lulz Sect]

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[oblexsis]

Stormlord i agree with you totally on everything you say. The problem lies in the fact that its not the people that do the work that are pissed off , take the recording industry of America . It isn't the artists making the music that are mad , they are happy people are listening to their art that they created it , enjoying it and they are still making fair bit of money in the process . Its the managers , marketers , and all the other faceless goons of the industry that couldn't play a note if they wanted to that are being taken out of the picture . And these are people that are worth alot of money , so they are fighting to have their jobs sustained even though they are the bloat to the industry and are the ones that made Cd's cost 25 dollars a piece for a CD that had 2 good songs on it .

[purest]

ok so voting on sopa was postponed until about a month from now, i can tell you that if voting occurred today like it was supposed to, it would have been a landslide pass

we are talking about legislation that will completely change the internet, not to mention shut down p99

at this point we have another month before SOPA gets voted on, take the 2 seconds from poopsocking to petition your representative before this bill passes and you can poopsock no longer:

http://fightforthefuture.org/