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The Stop Online Piracy Act, watch the video follow the links and become enraged.
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Mirima Thurander
#1 - 2011-11-22 00:04:44 UTC
The Stop Online Piracy Act may sound innocuous, but it's a nasty little proposition that gives corporations uncontested rights to control what you enjoy on the Internet. Naturally, being a horrible thing, EA can't wait to climb aboard, along with a number of other publishers. The Internet shouldn't be censored by cowardly companies who are afraid of it, and The Jimquisition urges you take note of what these organizations want to do.



Video - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/4993-Sony-Nintendo-EA-and-SOPA



site - http://americancensorship.org/



All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
Spr09
Abyssal Echoes
Invidia Gloriae Comes
#2 - 2011-11-22 00:12:18 UTC
ugh, i hate this as much as i hated ACTA trying to get passed.

does anyone know ACTA go passed or died? i kinda lost track.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-11-22 02:55:51 UTC
I dislike the act, but I hate that guy because of how compulsively he was swearing.
Mirima Thurander
#4 - 2011-11-22 03:27:10 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:
I dislike the act, but I hate that guy because of how compulsively he was swearing.



thats a part of is ******* act he dose.

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
Myxx
The Scope
#5 - 2011-11-22 06:29:18 UTC
already sent a number of letters to my reps, called them and otherwise showed my rage at them over it. This is a pretty **** situation if it does get passed.
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-22 08:59:56 UTC
Basic rule of life: Anything EA gets behind is a terrible idea and should be sent to the **** pile never to be brought up again.
Alain Kinsella
#7 - 2011-11-22 09:35:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Alain Kinsella
*sigh* You'd think DMCA was enough.

For those reps that think this is a good idea, they should consider that a company that does not like them can use this to censor them offline. That should turn everyone in Washington off the idea in short order...

BTW, the idea that this is going to allow forced twiddling of DNS - BAD move.

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#8 - 2011-11-22 19:33:41 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:
I dislike the act, but I hate that guy because of how compulsively he was swearing.


I can't watch his videos. Srlsy; I tried. His voice has something in it which makes me want to knock teeth out. It reminds me of the voices in practically every investigative journalism programme, and the 'newsbeat' presenters on BBC Radio one.

It's like having dental surgery on my nuts, that only my ears can feel, sending electrical discharges of pain through my limbic system.

Just as there is a school for movie trailer voice training, there is a school for how to sound like an idiots-idiot, explaining things in such a screwed-up and agonising way that only people with the mental capacity of a 'McCain MicroChip' can understand or tolerate due to the dead nerve endings in their brain.

Opps, wrong meeting.

OT: The internet does not belong to these companies; it belongs to no-one and no thing and certainly no entity.

The only thing on the internet a company should have control over is their own website.

AK

This space for rent.
Endeavour Starfleet
#9 - 2011-11-23 06:27:34 UTC
I am against piracy yet I am against the act due to its far overreaching power.

Thankfully the GOP and Dems generally agree now and the chances of it passing are far less.

Yet anything the US Chamber of Commerce gets behind I would personally be suspicious of.
VR Highfive
Hayabusa Logistics.
#10 - 2011-12-17 17:18:14 UTC
This needs a bump.

I learned that this act exists from Total Hallibut, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM&feature=g-all-u&context=G2030cdbFAAAAAAAACAA

If ya ain' t from the US, like me, you can sign a petition anyway . Links are in the description of the vid. If this bill comes into effect it will affect people all over the world.

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Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#11 - 2011-12-18 13:19:29 UTC
VR Highfive wrote:
This needs a bump.

I learned that this act exists from Total Hallibut, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM&feature=g-all-u&context=G2030cdbFAAAAAAAACAA

If ya ain' t from the US, like me, you can sign a petition anyway . Links are in the description of the vid. If this bill comes into effect it will affect people all over the world.


Yea just wathed it today...
USA=Censorship=Soon TM

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Citizen of Solitude
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#12 - 2011-12-18 19:47:05 UTC
Well they can grab anybody they want and haul them off indefinitely, no charges, no representation, no contact thanks to the NDAA.

The last thing they want is people all over the internet talking about it.


Everybody who ever watched a movie about the holocaust and sat there thinking about what the Jews and other "undesirables" should have done instead of just being herded off to die should start thinking about actually doing those things.

Trends Institute has been correct in their forecasts so far.

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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2011-12-18 21:58:22 UTC

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR03261:@@@L&summ2=m&

Quote:
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, decided against holding a committee vote that had been expected on Friday. The panel later scheduled a vote for Wednesday, December 21.


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Serial Chi
White Knights of Equestria
#14 - 2011-12-19 20:20:04 UTC
USA should be renamed after this law passes: Corporations Republic of America.

China #1
CRA #2

I for one am glad I got to see the best days of the internet, 90s and mid 2000s.

Funny thing is that these idiots actually think this is gonna stop piracy. lol
Mirima Thurander
#15 - 2011-12-19 20:34:55 UTC
Serial Chi wrote:
USA should be renamed after this law passes: Corporations Republic of America.

China #1
CRA #2

I for one am glad I got to see the best days of the internet, 90s and mid 2000s.

Funny thing is that these idiots actually think this is gonna stop piracy. lol



in the end it will do just what the drug war has done make doing illegal things even MORE profitable.



side note, i have seen no coverage of this in ANY way my any main media outlets besides some small internet sites, and that kinda makes me sad.

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
Landrae
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-12-19 20:37:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Landrae
Internets should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their Internets?

Edit: They have tweaked the law to make it so Entertainment companies can no longer directly have sites taken down. They have to petition the justice dept and the justice dept gives the yay or nay.

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Wot I Think
Doomheim
#17 - 2011-12-19 21:51:45 UTC
The central problem with this bill is it would allow service providers to be responsible for not stopping piracy.

Basically if some website gets accused on January 1st, and is found guilty on June 1st, your ISP can then be sued for allowing access to that website for six months.

This results in the behavior that an ACCUSATION would necessitate your ISP blocking the site until the site is cleared or found guilty if they want to avoid any chance of a lawsuit.

This effectively makes webmasters guilty until proven innocent.
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#18 - 2011-12-19 21:52:07 UTC
seeing as large american corporations love suing each other to death on a regular basis, mostly with copyright, trademark or patent claims I would be kind of surprised if it gets past the lawyers and lobbyists.

but, yeah this is a terrible bit of legislation
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2011-12-19 22:17:30 UTC
Wooohooo one step closer to the police state.
Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2011-12-19 23:23:04 UTC
As much as I hate the prospect of the Stop Online Piracy Act, is this not a political discussion?
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