SOPA law

[Vylash]

Just one thing....

WHY THE HECK CAN'T THEY FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT'S ACTUALLY IMPORTANT?!

I don't know about you, but I sleep much more soundly knowing that pizza is officially a vegetable

[sstimson]

Found this while looking around and yes it is about SOPA.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc[/youtube]

[Apocrypha]

SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today.  
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/

Though that is good news... It's just the feeling the battle is over, but the war isn't.  The people that made and supported these bills are still in office.  You can't help but think, they're going to keep pushing on these bills until they pass, whether it's in another form or through some mutation of another bill that slips through without anyone looking.  Not sure how we can just go and get rid of the root of it all...

[CoolKid94]

I heard that the file-sharing sites like Megaupload weren't even covered by these bills (which explains how it was shut down w/o either one). So if they can still shut down the sites, then the world is in serious trouble.

[IHKF]

Okay... for some reason I keep reading SOPA as SOAP. One letter out of place! XD

[doublemoonlight]

that's cause only soap-headed person would support it.

*killed for bad pun  

OT: well remember it is only postopnded not dropped completly. I fear that some time later they will pass it again. ( weather it's called SOPA, PIPA or COPA).

[sstimson]

Time for another bad pun(?)

The few people who support Sopa need a soapbox to be heard.

[Kleene Onigiri]

They'll probably try to get it through when the people are distracted by some other event (probably a disaster or something)... like always

[ProfParanoia]

http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-h ... -20210264/

^I hope you guys enjoy this.

[Akonyl]

my favorite part about that bill is what a congresswoman proposed changing the name to

Rep. Zoe Lofgren brilliantly pushed a proposal (seriously) to rename the bill the: "Keep Every American's Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act of 2011."

and yeah, it's a really bad bill, but sadly not many people are going to want to speak up against the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011", which is probably why it's named that in the first place.

[ProfParanoia]

Our internet shall be like airports. Also, I find it incredibly sleazy to use child porn as a front for IP protection.

[sonoci]

http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-h ... -20210264/

^I hope you guys enjoy this.

...

For the love of God, Mr. Smith, leave the Internet alone 

Yeah, Child Pornography is horrendous, but it's been dealt with in quite a few manners before.

How old is this Lamar Smith anyway? He probably doesn't understand the Internet at all. I can see how he could have good intentions like "Oh, doi, that Child Pornography stuff is horrible! I should do something to stop it!" but I can also see him trying to do a Google search and have it take him 5 minutes because he can't type 

[Chekhov MacGuffin]

I don't see a separate topic for the megaupload thing, but I have used megaupload exactly twice to upload or download annything, both legally. One instance was used to distribute a legally allowed copy of an antivirus program to me per company policy (there was no formal distribution network). The second was to upload an extremely large research data set because there was an email attachment size limit and megaupload was convenient. I know some other lab members used it for sharing datasets too. I sure hope someone raises a stink about legitimate use, even if it was in the minority (or it could be the majority. I dunno).

/annoyed enough to comment in offtopic

[Akonyl]

I don't see a separate topic for the megaupload thing, but I have used megaupload exactly twice to upload or download annything, both legally. One instance was used to distribute a legally allowed copy of an antivirus program to me per company policy (there was no formal distribution network). The second was to upload an extremely large research data set because there was an email attachment size limit and megaupload was convenient. I know some other lab members used it for sharing datasets too. I sure hope someone raises a stink about legitimate use, even if it was in the minority (or it could be the majority. I dunno).

/annoyed enough to comment in offtopic

there's a thread about the MU shutdown in the media forum if you're lookin for one:

http://forum.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?t=7869.0

[Borealis]

http://www.slashgear.com/sopa-sponsor-h ... -20210264/

^I hope you guys enjoy this.

...

For the love of God, Mr. Smith, leave the Internet alone 

Yeah, Child Pornography is horrendous, but it's been dealt with in quite a few manners before.

How old is this Lamar Smith anyway? He probably doesn't understand the Internet at all. I can see how he could have good intentions like "Oh, doi, that Child Pornography stuff is horrible! I should do something to stop it!" but I can also see him trying to do a Google search and have it take him 5 minutes because he can't type 

"Why don't we just deleate the whole internet, it accidentally happened to my wife three years ago"
oh, it's so fun mocking people you don't know *hohoho*