Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
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Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:39 pmRe: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:45 pmEither these are just rebels without a cause, or I'm not understanding what the SOPA is.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:49 pmSOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act. It would give the federal government the power to block any IP address that hosted allegedly illegal copyrighted material at the national level.
Someone posts a youtube video without asking permission to use a popular song in the background? The government can shut down youtube. The bigger concern is the possibility of having legitimate websites that are sources of news and dissent shut down for bogus intellectual property violations.
Someone posts a youtube video without asking permission to use a popular song in the background? The government can shut down youtube. The bigger concern is the possibility of having legitimate websites that are sources of news and dissent shut down for bogus intellectual property violations.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:53 pmSo is Wikipedia to protest against, or for the SOPA?
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:56 pmWhy don't you just read this.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:30 ammy vps hosting company redstonehost all the way in paris is having their homepage blackout for this act too.
nonetheless, as all history timelines go to show, a law that is bad will be voted down by others, or will eventually become so ridiculous in situations it will be destroyed/obliterated in flames later on.
nonetheless, as all history timelines go to show, a law that is bad will be voted down by others, or will eventually become so ridiculous in situations it will be destroyed/obliterated in flames later on.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:24 amkaramazovapy wrote:SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act. It would give the federal government the power to block any IP address that hosted allegedly illegal copyrighted material at the national level.
Someone posts a youtube video without asking permission to use a popular song in the background? The government can shut down youtube. The bigger concern is the possibility of having legitimate websites that are sources of news and dissent shut down for bogus intellectual property violations.
So if what your saying is true, then this SOPA is unconstitutional. It also gives the government another way to control us.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:56 amAnd if Congress does what congress always has in recent years, the creators of the bill will edit it until it gets passed. Then gradually over the years they add onto it it by bit as needed to result in the original effect.
Still, knrl them. I want to see this bill beaten around like every single terrorist that John McClane has laid a beat down on. I want to see this bill SUFFER
Still, knrl them. I want to see this bill beaten around like every single terrorist that John McClane has laid a beat down on. I want to see this bill SUFFER
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:11 pmShadowX.loner wrote:Still, knrl them. I want to see this bill beaten around like every single terrorist that John McClane has laid a beat down on. I want to see this bill SUFFER
I see someone has been in a mosh pit before.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:25 amJohn McLane as in die hard? Or did you mean to type John McCain?
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:24 amLittle_Apple wrote:John McLane as in die hard? Or did you mean to type John McCain?
John McClane from Die Hard. John Macain couldn't even beat up a school girl if he wanted to.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:35 amJohn McLane would make an awesome president.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:45 amLittle_Apple wrote:John McLane would make an awesome president.
actually, i have a list of people who would make better presidents, but I'm too lazy to paste them on this post.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:58 amNow I find google appears to go against SOPA / PIPA, as their home page is a big black cover up over the "Google", linked to here:
http://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/
http://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:51 amLooks like mojang (creators of minecraft) are protesting this too: http://mojang.com/
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:58 amTake a look at teeworlds.com
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:11 pmLooks like Wikipedia put a blackout by only adding JavaScript code on nearly all pages, but I can disable JavaScript on my web browser making any JavaScript useless, and I can see any page on Wikipedia.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:51 pmIt's more symbolic than anything.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:36 pm
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:07 pmThat is the most amazing protest gif ever.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:17 pmIf this bill were to be passed, would that mean bitfighter.org could be taken down because we "technically" don't own the rights to the game?
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:33 pmHaving the president sign this is like him signing a declaration of war against the entire Internet.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:02 pmLittle_Apple wrote:If this bill were to be passed, would that mean bitfighter.org could be taken down because we "technically" don't own the rights to the game?
No. Bitfighter is based on the public Zap! Demo code and we're working within the license that was issued with it.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:37 pmHowever, if someone posts a video of their uncle singing lady gaga in the shower, then we'd be responsible for that and THEN we'd be in trouble.
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:03 pmI couldn't get a video of my uncle singing lady gaga in the shower so here's Nyan cat. I have doomed this site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUl ... ata_player
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:07 amSTOP SOPA
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:08 pmI LIKE SOAP!!!
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:54 pmOpti wrote:STOP SOPA
SOPA means soup in spanish lol
Im at protest of SOPA and PIPA (which means pipe in spanish rofl) i dont wanna see the apocalypse of teh internet.
imagine no facebook twitter google mozila youtube anything and no thing.
btw
IZ BITFIGHTER STILL LIVING AFTER SOPA?
karamazovapy wrote:
_k i hope that imaeg haz no copyright
Re: Wikipedia Blackout to Protest SOPA
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:08 pmHis site instructed users to "pirate the shit" out of the attached animated gif.