...Not going to ask why you have three sets of empty bold tags, but would you care to actually qualify that statement, or am I just removing that post in a completely unironic twist for lack of content?

That's not quite it; What you're referring to is criminalizing violation of a sites Terms of Service.

For example, under that bill, returning to a website you've been banned from would be breaking the law; Likewise, the example you gave, Facebook requires you to provide your real name - it's in the ToS. I am under a false name and I will never put my real name up there, because I'm not a frelling moron and I'm not in the public arena as myself, either. Gareth is under his real name, but he's listed on the DNS record for AFF anyway.

You'd still be free to lie about your name, age, weight etc, except on sites that specifically forbid it or require truth about that specific.

No, today is when the hearings begin on the matter - it's already weighted 5-1 for*.

Click the big image in the first to go to the relevant website for more info; It's also up on Slashdot. The specific bill is SOPA; Stop Online Piracy Act.

*Register of Copyights, someone from the MPAA, someone from Pfizer, someone from MasterCard, and someone from the AFL-CIO, vs a guy from Google. Mastercard were deliberately chosen because Visa opposes this; I am glad I have Visa, not Mastercard, and that Visa is the more common here.

I like both this post and the OP. Thank you, Mytelli! You've made up my mind on internet censorship.
(with a ***-eating grin!)

No one is stealing news. MPAA, RIAA, and ESA fall completely within the bounds of the sorts of people who want to kill digital distribution, free content sources like youtube, parody of all shapes and sizes, satire as well, blogs, etc... that makes the web AND the entire internet what it is. So we all go back to 1999 internet.

Do you know the best thing?

This won't do *** to stop piracy, because it just blocks DNS for stuff outside the US; All major trackers are now outside the US. All you need is the ip address and use that instead of a URL, or use one of the myriad of plugins for Firefox that already circumvent this shite.

We've already been taken down due to a false claim under the Digital Millenium Copy Right Act. At the time, we were hosted in Germany and had our DNS with an American company, 1and1.

I strongly advise anybody who is thinking of hosting or getting DNS from 1and1 to reconsider; They did not follow the correct procedure for DMCA takedowns and took us down without notice and without investigating. We switched to GoDaddy and they've prevented it happening again from the same person.

Now we're hosted elsewhere, and whilst US law still doesn't really apply to us, DNS Poisoning does, and losing all our US traffic would be a serious chunk of our monthly views. They wouldn't take us to court - that's not needed - just blacklisted or taken down.

Absolutely - go to the website and grab the splash and black bar, too.

List them, plz.

/bow

MAFIAAFire is the one that comes immediately to mind, to circumvent COICA . Works in exactly the same way.

thx

"Only a few citizens" is not a problem.

It'll splash around, and it's already on slashdot. That's a definite plus.

Niall was being slightly sarcastic... I think.
I play Dawn of Discovery.

About the system being the same? That's actually in the first post.

you think right
though more than slightly, actually. i also dont think he was responding to me. but meh. nice to have some attention.

I wasn't. Simple as that.

They don't think they just go ahead with it without thinking about the consequences. That's typical of Congress though.

I haven't heard a lot about how this one's progressing, but what usually happens is the house and senate each have their own versions of a bill. They vote on those, and then they have to reconcile the two bills and vote on that. I suspect that's what's going on.

Yep....

How negative? Scale of 1-10 (10 being not so much 1 being we're basically done for)

3, going on that one article. It's worth pointing out that the cnet article makes several assertions of fact that isn't backed up by any given data within the same article.

I like to keep factual reporting completely separated from opinion writing, even though I know that such a thing is impossible these days. (You'd have to read up on the history of journalism to understand)

.....yeah..... I would.....

The Colbert Report has a portion of the bill (being discussed) the anti piracy act (name as dumb as the clean air bill that did the opposite).

Colbert had two guys on,  one was the "defender of theives and pirates" ( a smart man a professor at like harvard) and the other replied - some businessman/blogger who said "oh, you are exaggerating, they woulnd't go after justin beiber, (regular people) they are just going to go after international companies or china" (so naive/dumb...)

(sorry too lazy to look for the clip) it was last week, nov 30th or dec 1st I think...

Morons trying to pass it- Some fun facts that you either don't know, don't listen to or just can't be assed about.

Look at the money made by Mark Zuckerberg, look at the money google makes. Thousands of business start off and use the internet to grow. Do you want to increase unemployment?

I learnt more from the internet than I did from my first high school. Everyone who uses the internet learns something from it.

People express themselves online. People build and make relationships. People find help for problems. People find methods of escape from problems. By the year 2020 half the population will have depression. The internet maybe can decrease those numbers. Do you want that to happen? Do you want suicide ratings to increase?

Online shopping helps the economy more than hollywood movies. The internet as a whole helps the economy nearly 70x more than hollywood movies.

Many more fun facts but i'd be here all day stating them.

If you cba (can't be arsed) for cites you cba.
I'm like that every time I look for "The Real Rain Man"'s actual name (Kim Peek) after I've somehow forgotten it. There are numerous other forms of subject matter that I feel like bringing up in conversations when I don't remember the book names, tv quotations, web addresses, and (most importantly!) the names and dates of the subject matter in question.

Bottomline, if I can't be bothered to focus on 'it' at the time I'm reading about 'it' (meaning zero aureal and visual distractions), I can't be bothered to remember it accurately.

Conspiracy Theorist much?

Hey Buddy, I'm the real life Dale Gribble, And yes I have a ton of them... Lol

(Watch one episode of King of the Hill, if you don't get it)

and aren't you tired of those foreign Countries laughing at you? At our stupidity? I apologize if I had offended anyone here, but that's how I feel

And why do you feel like that? Don't get me wrong, sometimes I agree with how stupid somethings get... then again... I only been back and adapted into American culture for 18 years of my life....

George Bush: too stupid to pull it off and too stupid to get away with it....

I have no idea who he is or what his record is like.

However, there was a mass blackout planned for the 18th (don't quote me on that date, that's from memory) across many popular websites - Facebook, Google, Wikipedia and Amazon to name but a few - and it may be a tactical move in order to head off that, and afford more support to PIPA.

Eric Cantor has always been extremely pro-corporate rights. I suppose it's possible that he got enough money from Google and Facebook to buy him off, but I would have thought the pro-SOPA interests would have gotten to him first.

"Rawg!" means *** YEAH!

-.- pfffffttttttt

Not looking to debate about it. I'm just calling it as I see it.

Obama also said he would not allow censorship

Not a "pfffffttttttt" at you, just a "pfffffttttttt" in general at politics.

Precisely!

I'm glad you agree

[Scar=Kapkao]I hardly think you deserve the level of agreement I've given you[/Scar]

I still like to pester females as if they were family

(I'm a diehard tribalist)