Post #21 · Posté à 2012-01-19 12:52:02pm il y a 12.6 années
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Edit: Interestingly enough, if you go to Wikipedia (back up), it says that Nintendo originally supported the bill, but then removed their name from the list of supporting companies.
Apple as well. The reason for that was that Nintendo and a bunch of other companies are part of an alliance that support(s/ed) SOPA, so by proxy they did too... until they started getting angry letters and actually found out what SOPA was.
Add: I think the issue with Wikipedia specifically is interesting. They're still blacked out (in the States at least) but there are already blog posts about how to get around the "foreground" image that covers every page. It's the perfect allegory for what SOPA and PIPA would do... and how most people will find a workaround and not give two shits about it.
Post #22 · Posté à 2012-01-19 01:16:26pm il y a 12.6 années
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Post #23 · Posté à 2012-01-19 01:37:53pm il y a 12.6 années
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Check out the tweets here... Some of the messages will surely give you a good laugh
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Post #24 · Posté à 2012-01-19 01:41:52pm il y a 12.6 années
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Post #25 · Posté à 2012-01-19 02:54:38pm il y a 12.6 années
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1/18/12. The day the series of tubes fought back.
Post #26 · Posté à 2012-01-20 07:07:40am il y a 12.6 années
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Rep. Tim Ryan has taken a position against SOPA, and my opinion of Ohio has gone up a point.
Post #27 · Posté à 2012-01-20 12:07:59pm il y a 12.6 années
Just got words that the popular file sharing site Megaupload.com and all the sister sites were seized by FBI and gone.
There is also a list of sites and even locations across the world that are currently deemed as "notorious" by the US authorities
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lists-notorious-pirate-sites-to-u-s-government-111028/
There is also a list of sites and even locations across the world that are currently deemed as "notorious" by the US authorities
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lists-notorious-pirate-sites-to-u-s-government-111028/
Post #28 · Posté à 2012-01-20 12:24:17pm il y a 12.6 années
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Besides PirateBay and Megaupload, I've not herd of any of these. Honesty I'm shocked out of my mind how PirateBay is still up.
Post #29 · Posté à 2012-01-20 12:36:33pm il y a 12.6 années
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1/18/12. The day the series of tubes fought back.
*remembers Series of Tubes remix*I'm glad many sites are participating in the blackout. Our computer science class was discussing this the other day and it is certainly a scary bill. It just sounds poorly thought out. How a website can be responsible for a user posting a link to something pirated is just plain stupid. Sites can only do so much to prevent such things.
On an interesting note, I heard a man from the UK is being put on trial in the States because he broke the law there. Funny thing is he never set foot in there. Makes me wonder what could happen with this particular bill put into place.
Post #30 · Posté à 2012-01-23 10:06:51am il y a 12.6 années
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Oh noes, this website be goin' down soon. (if it passes)
I don't think Konami would try to be on one side or another, it would look bad, but if it passes, I'm sure they'll use it.
Edit: Interestingly enough, if you go to Wikipedia (only works for SOPA page), it says that Nintendo originally supported the bill, but then removed their name from the list of supporting companies.
I don't think Konami would try to be on one side or another, it would look bad, but if it passes, I'm sure they'll use it.
Edit: Interestingly enough, if you go to Wikipedia (only works for SOPA page), it says that Nintendo originally supported the bill, but then removed their name from the list of supporting companies.
Sony was on the list as well, if I remember correctly. They have since removed themselves from the list of SOPA supporters.
Post #31 · Posté à 2012-01-23 11:20:23am il y a 12.6 années
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EA is part of the Electronic Software Alliance, but they have spoken out against SOPA.
And as of yesterday, the entire ESA has backed out of their support for SOPA. So every company associated, whether they individually came out against it or not, no longer supports SOPA.
And as of yesterday, the entire ESA has backed out of their support for SOPA. So every company associated, whether they individually came out against it or not, no longer supports SOPA.
Post #32 · Posté à 2012-01-23 12:43:06pm il y a 12.6 années
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EA is part of the Electronic Software Alliance, but they have spoken out against SOPA.
And as of yesterday, the entire ESA has backed out of their support for SOPA. So every company associated, whether they individually came out against it or not, no longer supports SOPA.
That's good. There was some game companies that were even going boycott E3 because ESA was pro SOPA.And as of yesterday, the entire ESA has backed out of their support for SOPA. So every company associated, whether they individually came out against it or not, no longer supports SOPA.
Post #33 · Posté à 2012-01-23 12:44:40pm il y a 12.6 années
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Yeah, Factor 5 make a big stink about that. I wonder if they're still not going?
Post #34 · Posté à 2012-01-24 08:38:55pm il y a 12.6 années
So, Who's Next? FileSonic, FileServe Disable Sharing; Upload.to Down...
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Mega's been seized and its leaders locked up, but who's next? Are you next? Welcome to the very tense, fear-frought climate following the MegaUpload raids.
Go ahead, argue the due process and legal merits all you want - and MegaUpload will do just that - but the US Department of Justice, FBI, and MPAA are wielding gigantic guns here. And that is forcing MegaUpload's competitors to consider some very practical scenarios, including the possibility of getting shut down and buried for good. Because this is a bad, bad place to be:
Over the weekend, FileSonic opted for total insurance: they disabled all file-sharing on their lockers, with almost certain user fallout expected. FileServe quickly followed suit, with attrition a guaranteed result. But fleeing users is probably better than a knock (or bang) on the door from the FBI.
RapidShare - among the largest locker-and-hosting services - is confidently staying put, which in this uncertain enforcement climate could be risky. "RapidShare AG was founded in Switzerland and in fact, it was always located at the address given in the company details and was always run under real names without any anonymous intermediate businesses," RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli told ARs Technica. "The radical measures against Megaupload were apparently required since the situation there had been totally different."
But just like FileSonic, others are also playing it very safe, at least for now. That includes upload.to, which has reportedly disabled also sharing and seems to have denied access to any US user. Their site looks like this from a US terminal, more on this situation as it emerges.
The question is whether this starts spilling beyond locker services, and towards other major players like SoundCloud, Grooveshark, MediaFire and even Dropbox.
And, anyone partnered or associated with MegaUpload is potentially in broiling water. In perhaps in the strangest twist yet, Swizz Beats is fighting to distance himself from his CEO position at the company, with lawyers arguing that the rapper and producer never formally started the gig.
Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120123next
Go ahead, argue the due process and legal merits all you want - and MegaUpload will do just that - but the US Department of Justice, FBI, and MPAA are wielding gigantic guns here. And that is forcing MegaUpload's competitors to consider some very practical scenarios, including the possibility of getting shut down and buried for good. Because this is a bad, bad place to be:
Over the weekend, FileSonic opted for total insurance: they disabled all file-sharing on their lockers, with almost certain user fallout expected. FileServe quickly followed suit, with attrition a guaranteed result. But fleeing users is probably better than a knock (or bang) on the door from the FBI.
RapidShare - among the largest locker-and-hosting services - is confidently staying put, which in this uncertain enforcement climate could be risky. "RapidShare AG was founded in Switzerland and in fact, it was always located at the address given in the company details and was always run under real names without any anonymous intermediate businesses," RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli told ARs Technica. "The radical measures against Megaupload were apparently required since the situation there had been totally different."
But just like FileSonic, others are also playing it very safe, at least for now. That includes upload.to, which has reportedly disabled also sharing and seems to have denied access to any US user. Their site looks like this from a US terminal, more on this situation as it emerges.
The question is whether this starts spilling beyond locker services, and towards other major players like SoundCloud, Grooveshark, MediaFire and even Dropbox.
And, anyone partnered or associated with MegaUpload is potentially in broiling water. In perhaps in the strangest twist yet, Swizz Beats is fighting to distance himself from his CEO position at the company, with lawyers arguing that the rapper and producer never formally started the gig.
Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120123next
Post #35 · Posté à 2012-01-24 09:06:42pm il y a 12.6 années
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omg this sucks
Post #36 · Posté à 2012-01-24 11:28:33pm il y a 12.6 années
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now how we will share files over the web?
Post #37 · Posté à 2012-01-24 11:29:11pm il y a 12.6 années
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kongdisk, etc.
Post #38 · Posté à 2012-01-25 12:03:19am il y a 12.6 années
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If this is like their Blackout thing last week, you can just disable Javascript to access the site.
Post #39 · Posté à 2012-01-25 04:12:24am il y a 12.6 années
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Post #40 · Posté à 2012-01-25 04:15:29am il y a 12.6 années
we all find out tonight
and ist there still media fire
and ist there still media fire