p99/red99 slated to get shut down when SOPA passes - Page 5

Jon Lemon · #41 12-17-2011, 12:54 AM

Jon Lemon · #42 12-17-2011, 03:19 AM

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...l-2012.shtml?r

Just kidding about the delay - did you finish getting the word out that the vote was off already, citizen? Woops!

purest · #43 12-29-2011, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom's Hardware

In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:

Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.
It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.
It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran. The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.

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Originally Posted by Tom's Hardware

Imagine a user posts a video clip to the Tom’s Community of a step-by-step guide on how to set up water cooling on an overclocked i7 CPU. Playing in the background behind the voiceover is “Derezzed” by Daft Punk. The studio representing Daft Punk could issue a complaint, without being required to notify us or request a take-down. Tom’s Hardware would be liable and prosecuted solely on a good faith assertion of the copyright owner, without notification, with the site operators subject to possible jail time for not preventing the video from being posted.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/tom...ate,14393.html

Psionide · #44 12-29-2011, 08:22 PM

I really think pirates need to get some of the blame here, and I know while saying this on a internet forum is probably pretty stupid but seriously some of this shit needs to be put on piracy in the firstplace. Everyone knew what they were doing and had there different reasons to justify it.Yeah nobody wants to go to the theatres when its 8.50 for a popcorn that costs the theatre a quarter and there big feature is The Expendables sure but then you got somebody downloading whole lists of shit and throw pieces of trash movies like that on there download list simply because they can.

Music, now I can see there pain when I go to shows and I see the fuckin band after there done playing there set come around selling there shitty ass tee shirts and posters like hobos in traffic in the city.

So like I'm not totally against it but hell maybe just maybe if it wasn't abused to the degree it was we wouldn't be dealing with this instead of wishing for common sense to appear in congress?

Hasbinbad · #45 12-29-2011, 09:29 PM

Pop musicians are not seeing massive cuts in their lifestyles. Non-pop musicians have always been poor.

People that pirate shit wouldn't have been able to buy it in the first place.

I don't see the problem.

Hasbinbad · #46 12-29-2011, 09:30 PM

Oh wait, less bottom line for execs!

FUCKING INTERTUBEZ PIRATES!!

Hitchens · #47 12-29-2011, 11:26 PM

Since when is being wealthy something bad?

Jon Lemon · #48 12-30-2011, 01:00 AM

my sig disappeared due to nazis but i improved it

Doublestep · #49 12-30-2011, 01:48 AM

if you can't afford to buy a 14.99 album once every year or so to support your favorite artist, you shouldn't be listening to their music/calling yourself a fan.

Doublestep · #50 12-30-2011, 01:48 AM

I don't pirate because in the small (read: extremely small) chance that I actually do get a record out, i'd like to at least sell more than 10 copies.