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SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act) and how you can help to stop it
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mullet nugget
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-12-30 04:15:06 UTC
if you haven't heard about SOPA or don't know what it is, exactly, you need to become educated on the subject. this bill is ludicrous and will destroy the internet as we know it. even if you don't think it will affect you, i beg you, go to this link and use the "take action now" function. https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

"As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates.

It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”). "

this article provides a more lamen friendly explanation of what SOPA is and how it will affect you http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#2 - 2011-12-30 04:18:29 UTC
Sopa!

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-12-30 04:18:30 UTC
But will it blend?

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#4 - 2011-12-30 04:22:30 UTC
In before SOPA goes to OOPE.


And yes, it's treasonous legislation, but then 93 senators also voted to make indefinite detention without charges and a trial codified into law. That too is treason.


Remember all those holocaust films you watched and may have thought "if only they (insert what they should have done here) ?"

Well, it's time to start thinking of doing those things you think the victims of tyranny in the last century should have done before it was too late for them.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Beaches
#5 - 2011-12-30 04:23:18 UTC
Obama! Obama! Net Neutrality! We are the 99% ! Down with unhealthy food! Free to be safe internet! Wooo!
Chesh Aideron
Androse Trinket Haus
#6 - 2011-12-30 04:23:35 UTC
No wonder lowsec pirates have it so hard, even the government wants them nerfed again.

Wait, wrong type of piracy?
mullet nugget
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-30 04:26:58 UTC
here's another website i found which allows you to email 60 SOPA supporting companies with 1 click. check it out guys, no virii, i promise. http://www.mypcworks.net/help-stop-sopa
Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#8 - 2011-12-30 04:32:50 UTC
This is gonna be deleted so quickly...
mullet nugget
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2011-12-30 04:35:38 UTC
why will it get deleted?
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2011-12-30 04:56:09 UTC
not eve related ect.
Endeavour Starfleet
#11 - 2011-12-30 04:59:37 UTC
Not EVE related. And politics is a nono on this forum.

I think most here have heard of the BS known as SOPA from other forums anyway.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#12 - 2011-12-30 05:06:39 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
But will it blend?



How long was that last ban again?

Sanity is fun leaving the body.
mullet nugget
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2011-12-30 05:10:11 UTC
ok well i want to stay on topic here.

I think this will directly affect EVE both in game and out. Imagine every in game video set to music being cause to shut down the entire website it's hosted on AND linked from. This will eventually lead to all internet forums being set to approved posts only. Would you still use the EVE forum if you had to wait for staff approval for every single post you wanted to make? Would CCP even continue to maintain a forum at all if they had to hire exponentially more staff in order to manage said approval system?
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#14 - 2011-12-30 06:10:37 UTC
mullet nugget wrote:
ok well i want to stay on topic here.

I think this will directly affect EVE both in game and out. Imagine every in game video set to music being cause to shut down the entire website it's hosted on AND linked from. This will eventually lead to all internet forums being set to approved posts only. Would you still use the EVE forum if you had to wait for staff approval for every single post you wanted to make? Would CCP even continue to maintain a forum at all if they had to hire exponentially more staff in order to manage said approval system?




On the upside, when all those zombied up people out there can't get their WOW, SWTOR, or Second Life, perhaps then they will have the kind of insight that Russians had in 1992 but should have had in 1917, or the kind of insight that Germans had in 1945 that they should have had in 1933.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-12-30 06:19:24 UTC
Aiwha wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
But will it blend?



How long was that last ban again?


6 months, same as the time before that and the time before that and the time before that Cool

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#16 - 2011-12-30 06:19:50 UTC
There's a point where the real damage ends and people carry this WELL into hype and tinfoil hat territory. I encourage all to actually READ THE THING but sadly yes... there is no way to argue that this is a very bad thing.

Charges Twilight fans with Ka-bar -Surfin's PlunderBunny LIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEE PIIIEEEECCCCEEE!!!!!!! -Taedrin Using relativity to irrational numbers is smart -rodyas I no longer believe we landed on the moon. -Atticus Fynch
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2011-12-30 07:27:00 UTC
VKhaun Vex wrote:
There's a point where the real damage ends and people carry this WELL into hype and tinfoil hat territory. I encourage all to actually READ THE THING but sadly yes... there is no way to argue that this is a very bad thing.


I shall now demonstrate the problem with Americans.... is there a TL;DR included anywhere?

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Reiisha
#18 - 2011-12-30 10:49:36 UTC
VKhaun Vex wrote:
There's a point where the real damage ends and people carry this WELL into hype and tinfoil hat territory. I encourage all to actually READ THE THING but sadly yes... there is no way to argue that this is a very bad thing.


Sadly this is not the case. The bill opens up the way (or rather, widens it, given earlier legislations) for complete censorship. Having the power to take down "infringing sites" with just a quick phonecall from a MAFIAA upper management bozo. How some people can't see the potential for abuse here is beyond me, as organizations like the MIAA and RIAA have proven time and time again that they will use every single loophole they can find, or even bend or break the law if they think "it's justified".

The bill itself is not bad perse, but it's worded in such a way that makes a lot of bad things possible. Given power, very few people know how to use it responsibly, if they even intend to do it at all.

If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
#19 - 2011-12-30 17:28:54 UTC
Sort your own **** out America!

I'm sure your government could give a rats a$$ about an online petition anyway
VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2011-12-31 03:15:22 UTC  |  Edited by: VKhaun Vex
Reiisha wrote:
Having the power to take down "infringing sites" with just a quick phonecall from...

Reiisha wrote:
...for complete censorship.

Reiisha wrote:
How some people can't see the potential for abuse here is beyond me...


A common signs warning passersbye that they are entering the territory of the tinfoil hat people.

Everything in SOPA begins very specifically with written documentation from very specifically the copyright holder. Someone must type it, someone must send it, someone must receive it, and someone must read it. The more you think they'll try to censor, the farther from reality you get because neither the companies nor our government have the man hours to devote to reach the quotas set by the expectations of the internet panic surrounding this bill.

Further, anything that DOES get taken down is documented in at least three places. The company, the government, the ISP, and potentially an advertiser and a site owner/operator. Any abuse would be obvious to all parties if someone decided to question it.

I say this not to defend SOPA, but because in order to stop the trend you have to be informed. The REAL discussion that affects law, is not 'if' or 'OMG CENSORSHIP'... it's a discussion taking place around 'how' to defend and enforce a copyright in today's world. Clearly we're not going in the right direction, but the drama doesn't help and the misinformation is very harmful.

Charges Twilight fans with Ka-bar -Surfin's PlunderBunny LIIIIIIIIIIINNEEEEE PIIIEEEECCCCEEE!!!!!!! -Taedrin Using relativity to irrational numbers is smart -rodyas I no longer believe we landed on the moon. -Atticus Fynch
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