Sopa

[rev]

The irony here is that it is not "lolgov" damning you to this, but your beloved corporations with their capitalist profit interests are behind this bill.

Free market ftw? :-/

as true as that is, the free market is still the winner. everything has a way of balancing out in the free market, that's why it works. give it time.

[golden_boy]

The irony here is that it is not "lolgov" damning you to this, but your beloved corporations with their capitalist profit interests are behind this bill.

Free market ftw? :-/

[Grim Warlock]

We'll go back to the dark ages, lmfao.

[golden_boy]

I hope the European Union will stop this madness. Then Americans will need illegal satellite links just like the people in Egypt did when theirs was shut down.

[Lerster]

If its going to happen, it will happen.

I heard a good 5 years ago that they was planning to rebuild the internet infrastructure.

However, it's a tedious task, and even now, that policy technically isn't rebuilding the infrastructure its just adding more barriers and giving ISPs the work, to monitor everything transferred and recieved more thoroughly.

I think as a result, there will be a ton more lawsuits of piracy. An courts will be way, way backed up that people that commit murder, theft and rape, will have to wait in holding cells while half the population around the world is tied up in court over downloading some artists mp3 via a website or torrent.

LoL.

It will be chaos, that and all of what everyone else said about wiki/youtube etc being taken down will likely happen as well.

Makes me wonder if 90% of the porn sites out there will go down as well for hosting cinematic pornographies that have copywrites, to the actual publisher, yet are being posted on third party sites...

The internet may become like the desert with the tumbleweeds, rolling around...

lol.

[Phenom]

If this happens then we need to break out our BBS's again and take this shit under ground

You mean Starbucks?

Give the US Congress a problem we'll call "X".

They will come up with solution "Y" that does not solve problem "X" and causes problems Z1 through Z99999.

I've read that SOPA is stalled. But if SOPA passes, you'd think any site would be very vulnerable to being shutdown.

You could probably cause a site problems just by complaining about member avatars violating someone's rights or a freaking button image or a screen shot. Maybe even a text signature that was a quote. Or if someone even posted a link to something.

I'm no fan of piracy, but SOPA would not do a damn thing to stop piracy except in limited cases where a foreign site is selling counterfeit goods for market inside the USA and even that could be dubious.

And say goodbye to YouTube, Google and Wikipedia. Probably sites like Flickr or other photo sharing sites. Etc. Etc.

I myself am no fan of piracy either, though I don't think the internet should be reinvented but better yet, the close minded people of the world who want things censored should be educated.

The internet is a reflection of our physical freedom.

Why so censored?

[wicked_lord]

Yup, bunch politics. Just like the bill "Nobama" signed on christmas day 2011. Indefinite Detention of "AMERICANS" Want liberties and rights restored? Vote Ron Paul. He's the only candidate who will fight for our right's regardless if anything get's passed through congress. I own a business, and the way thing's are going, i could be in trouble in the next few years if this crap keeps up!

[Baker]

Give the US Congress a problem we'll call "X".

They will come up with solution "Y" that does not solve problem "X" and causes problems Z1 through Z99999.

I've read that SOPA is stalled. But if SOPA passes, you'd think any site would be very vulnerable to being shutdown.

You could probably cause a site problems just by complaining about member avatars violating someone's rights or a freaking button image or a screen shot. Maybe even a text signature that was a quote. Or if someone even posted a link to something.

I'm no fan of piracy, but SOPA would not do a damn thing to stop piracy except in limited cases where a foreign site is selling counterfeit goods for market inside the USA and even that could be dubious.

And say goodbye to YouTube, Google and Wikipedia. Probably sites like Flickr or other photo sharing sites. Etc. Etc.

[R00k]

If this happens then we need to break out our BBS's again and take this shit under ground

[Grim Warlock]

Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PROTECT IP Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So this thing's going to pass? Crap, the internet's ruined!