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What about... (Score:5, Insightful)
SLASHDOT?
What the hell guys? Do we not care about these bills to even change the color scheme?
Missing Option: (Score:5, Insightful)
SOPA/PIPA Would Directly Affect... ... the whole internet.
All Of the Sites that I Use (Score:5, Insightful)
SOPA creates "chilling" effect towards legit sites (Score:5, Insightful)
As I understand it, even if they drop the DNS blocking provision, it still provides the power to block funding to sites. This can often effectively have the same result.
A bigger, more subtle problem is that it may create a "chilling" effect towards any site that could even imaginably potentially be hit by SOPA. Why would you risk doing business with someone that could have have their funding sources pulled? I think this is the critical bit for Open Source projects.
Re:What about... (Score:5, Insightful)
[..] oh and the Matrix movies.
You mean the Matrix movie. Too bad there never were any sequels made.
Re:eh (Score:5, Insightful)
What portion of SOPA/PIPA authorizes the AG to censor sites simply for reporting on civil rights issues?
That would be the entire thing.
People didn't understand what the big deal was with the DMCA. Now the *AA are taking down youtube videos of kids around their swimming pools, just because they're humming three notes of the latest Lady Gaga.
These kind of laws should have a due process and should go through the judiciary system. But now, those people are above that. Proof: They are buying laws that allow them to punish people / websites without the justice being even notified.
Re:What about... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What about... (Score:3, Insightful)
As soon as the Matrix nerds stop going on about Jar Jar, I'll forget about the sequels.
Computer Vampires!
Re:All Of the Sites that I Use (Score:4, Insightful)
"End Piracy, Not Liberty" (Score:5, Insightful)
Google posted some rhetoric that says: "End Piracy, Not Liberty" https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ [google.com]
A lot of SOPA critics make similar arguments, but I don't buy it.
How do you stop piracy without Orwellian bullshit like internet censorship, deep packet inspection, etc? The only way to completely eradicate piracy is to install a surveillance state as terrifying as 1984's.
So, given that, how exactly do we end piracy without ending liberty?
Re:"End Piracy, Not Liberty" (Score:4, Insightful)
Remove the reasons that people pirate. The easier it is to obtain a legal version of something, the fewer people will pirate it. The more convenient it is to make use of a legal version of something, the fewer people will pirate it.
Re:yes and no... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:yes and no... (Score:4, Insightful)
No, the internet won't die. It will become a corporate/government-controllled walled garden. Think Compuserve with a bit more content, if you can pay for it, that is. The government/corporations that own the media companies, can't, for the moment, control the messages read on the internet. Truth still lives there, on blog sites like zerohedge.com, theoildrum.com, nakedcapitalism.com and the like. This legislation would change that, and make all websites about as informative and useful as fox's local evening TV news, or Yahoo's front page.
Re:eh (Score:4, Insightful)
Also, "facilitating the commission" of copyright infringement (which SOPA and PIPA includes in their infringing site definition) is so broad that the many non-tech-savvy judges will be able to be influenced through heavy lobbying by MPAA and the like.
Lastly, H.R. 3261, Title I, 103.d [loc.gov] (in SOPA) does allow plaintiffs to issue court orders to service providers from what I understand.
Re:Missing Option: (Score:4, Insightful)
Someone has to organise the Internet though.
Yes, and politicians are the LAST group that should be trusted with said organization.
Re:What about... (Score:3, Insightful)
Exactly my point.
Many fans of the Matrix will paint the Star Wars prequels as "crap", but shrug off the terrible Matrix sequels with comments like "too bad there weren't any sequels".
Criticizing Star Wars for "bad acting and bad dialog" while being an avowed fan of the stilted dialog and wooden acting of the Matrix is bold.
Christen Hayden could take a class on wooden acting from Keanu Reeves.
Re:What about... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Missing Option: (Score:3, Insightful)
SOPA/PIPA Would Directly Affect... ... the whole internet.
No - darknets and peer to peer would be unaffected. Ironically these are mostly used by blatant copyright infringers, the one the bill is designed to stop